Bush dusts off the compassion on immigration
Breaking news. There’s been a sighting of the Compassionate Conservative.
You remember that guy, George W. Bush, by name. Years before he pronounced himself ”the decider,” he was the ”uniter not a divider” (say that three times fast!), who promised to govern with benevolent concern for society’s less fortunate. A compassionate conservative, he said, acknowledging by implication that conservatives had not previously distinguished themselves by their bigheartedness.
Then Bush was selected president, and the compassion went out of his conservatism like air from a leaky tire.
That’s what makes one of the president’s remarks Monday in a speech about immigration a little surprising. ”I know this is an emotional debate,” he told the audience. “But one thing we cannot lose sight of is that we’re talking about human beings, decent human beings that need to be treated with respect.”
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So one is heartened, albeit mystified, by the president’s earnest reminder that illegal aliens have faces. One only wishes his party had not done so much over the years to make that reminder necessary.
We’re dealing with human beings, he says. For the record, we always were.
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