I voted for George W. Bush twice. He was not who I would have selected in the primary. In fact, he was not who I voted for in the primary. However, he was far batter than the other option presented, both times. He has done wonderfully on some things. He has been relentless in pursuing and killing terrorists who want to destroy Americans–be they liberal, conservative, or in between. He has done that in the face of treasonous attacks by hate-America leftists who will do anything and say anything to win, or more precisely, to see our side fail.

Bush has also done a respectible job of appointing judges, save the Harriet Meyers debacle. And when you consider that there is no guarantee when a President chooses a federal judge–just look at some of the previous Republican presidents’ choices who have been so disappointing–Bush has made outstanding choices.

But there are, of course, some areas where Bush has been a big, fat, stinking disappointment. Compassionate conervativism obviously means huge expansion of the federal government. Bush has signed off on bigger budgets than Bill Clinton could have ever begged for. The government has grown more under Bush than any president in recent history.

And then there’s immigration. Bush has wanted amnesty since he was elected. The silver lining to our huge losses in the last mid-term elections for Bush was the prospect of getting his immigration bill through. And now he’s doing all he can.

Some patriots in the Senate derailed it last week, but it’s rearing its ugly head again today. It needs to be defeated.

The unified voice of Americans that I hear is saying, “Control the borders first! Then we’ll talk about guest worker programs, etc.” The President insists on amnesty for those who are already here illegally. And he has said some very mean things about and insulted the intelligence of those of us who disagree with him. In fact, his responses have been eerily similar to those the left usually makes against us. Bush was adament he would win the battle on Harriet Meyers. We proved him wrong. We must do so again.

And that leads me to Chairman Ann. Her column this week is a must-read. We should all see the horrible, shabby way in which our country–our President–has treated U.S. Border agents who were doing their jobs trying to keep illegals and drugs out of America. It will make you seeth with anger as you see just how backwards our country and leaders have it.

Ann piques our interest this way:

Bush keeps claiming he’s dying to enforce the border, but he just can’t do it unless we immediately grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens. I wonder if that worked on Laura Bush:

Laura: George, it’s time you quit drinking.
George: OK, honey, let’s discuss it over cocktails.

As usual, her analysis is dead-on accurate. You should read the whole thing here.