I didn’t see it (the Bosox were playing on ESPN), but I read the transcript.  As Kevin Drum notes the main elements of the plan are to deploy the military to the border without calling it "militarizing the border," to launch a guest worker program without calling it a "guest worker program," and to offer amnesty to illegal immigrants without calling it "amnesty."  Fine.

Many on the right are not pleased.  Powerline’s John Hindrocket says Bush "blew it"

As soon as he started talking about guest worker programs and the impossibility of deporting 11 million illegals, it was all over. President Bush keeps trying to find the middle ground, on this and many other issues. But sometimes, there isn’t a viable middle ground. This is one of those instances.

Hindrocket also uses the "I met a cabbie which proves my point" rhetorical device, a favorite among right wing pundits.

Michelle Malkin liveblogged the speech, pointing to the exact minute that Bush "lost touch with reality" (it was 8:11).

That’s only the tip of the enraged iceberg.  Glenn has many, many more exmaples.

But Hugh Hewitt thought it was a "good start" and Jonah Golberg thought it "sounded pretty reasonable".

Me, I can’t get fired up about the whole issue.  Immigration is a problem, but unlike most on ther right, I don’t think it is a matter of national security. 

Of course, if it was really about national security (i.e., al Qaeda), the right would want troops on the U.S.-Canada border, too, yes?  After all, that border is much longer, much more porous, and al Qaeda has already used it several times.

Of course, if it was really about national security, the right would have been all up in arms about Bush cutting border control agents (almost 10,000 of them).  But not a peep.

But you would think it’s about national security, the way the right uses bellicose phrases like "foreign invaders" and "appeasement of Vincente Fox", like this is another war.  I think such hyperbolic language to be overdone, and the unhinged reaction to be based more on racism than reason.

UPDATE:  The rightosphere is eating itself.  After years of left-bashing, they are now bashing each other on the immigration issue.  Pass the popcorn.