Posted on 06/22/2006 8:05:20 AM PDT by sinkspur
The Republicans running the House may not be as smart as they think they are.
They may have misread the public mood, which prompted them to press GOP Speaker Dennis Hastert to put off immigration negotiations with the Senate until September.
They also may have misread some in their very own party.
A poll being released today by the conservative Manhattan Institute and conducted by the Republican Tarrance Group shows most of the 800 likely GOP voters questioned want a solution now, even one that deals with the 12 million illegal immigrants here. Some of those surveyed even will accept a plan they consider amnesty.
Those views are much more in line with the legislation the Senate has put on the negotiating table. That bill, which passed with Republican and Democratic votes, adds agents to the border, offers many illegal immigrants a chance to earn citizenship and creates a guest worker program for future foreign workers.
The Senate plan doesn't focus on a wall, like the House bill, nor does it call for deporting illegal immigrants.
But Mr. Hastert has ignored these voices and gone with his party's most vocal immigration opponents. It's no coincidence that the fall elections are fast approaching.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
The solution "now" is seal the border not what the senate did.
The house has saved it's ass by shutting down that horrid legislation regardless of all the bogus polls and whining from the liberal media.
No bill is better than what the Senate passed, despite what the DMN would have you believe.
I've been looking for a stance from Dick DeVos on immigration and I can tell you I won't be voting for anyone who doesn't have a stance or or supports the Bush amnesty plan.
Whatever they are smokin over at the DMN, I want some
I think it is risky, too. But the risk is extremely low. Most of the people in this country are law-abiding citizens. They have figured out the connection between open borders and increasing numbers of illegal aliens. ...not to worry!
""A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll ""
The Wall Street Journal is pro illegal immigration, so their poll was fixed as instructed : )
Is sinkspur the same guy as Dane? or woman?
It could backfire. On the other hand, the Senate's pro-immigrant stance could backfire. I'd put my bets on the latter.
Certainly there is no one individual who believes we are deploying the National Guard along the border to because there is no threat. The reason the Guard is being deployed is because there is a threat across the border, but the politicians forgot, the threat is inside our border too. I'm extremely uncomfortable with the attitude of our elected when it comes to National Security. I hope I'm wrong, but I see 'big trouble' from not having enforced the law concerning illegals.
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Those views are much more in line with the legislation the Senate has put on the negotiating table...
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The 800 surveyed were RINOs, then.
BS if we did an honest poll about this anarchy the likes of you and the other OBL traitors would have less popularity than Saddam.
LMAO.....yeah right.
Is that cow manure I smell?
Phony poll is aimed at House members not the public.
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