All I can say for Big Government Bush is that he’s still light-years better than John Kerry would have been. From Michelle Malkin’s latest column:
Do you remember when immigration officials sent out flight school visa approval notices for two of the 9/11 hijackers — six months after they had committed their suicide attacks on America?President Bush proclaimed his outrage, four federal immigration officials were reassigned, and Washington vowed that such embarrassing bureaucratic paperwork snafus would never happen again.
I’m sorry to report to you that it has, in fact, happened again.
On Jan. 15, immigration officials sent a notice to Eugueni Kniazev of Brooklyn, N.Y. The letter informs Kniazev, an immigrant from Siberia, that he is now “deemed to be a lawful permanent resident of the United States.” The notice directs Kniazev to obtain a new alien registration receipt card (what we commonly call a “green card”) and instructs him to appear in person at the immigration office at 26 Federal Plaza in New York City with his passport and three recent photos….But Eugueni Kniazev won’t be appearing at Federal Plaza. He won’t be going anywhere. Kniazev, 47, was an employee of the Windows of the World restaurant located on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center’s North Tower. After working his way up from dishwasher to facilities manager and living the American dream, Kniazev was murdered in the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
My ire is raised not just because of the botched paperwork. George Bush is big government, the opposite of what Republicans are supposed to be. He’s also too politically correct and concerned about what liberal journalists are writing about him for my taste. Mandate, my eye.
I hope I live long enough to see a real conservative occupying the White House.
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