President Bush urged support for his top domestic priority, an immigration bill, ahead of a 'grand bargain' bipartisan compromise on it that could come next week.
Posted on 06/23/2007 11:30:46 AM PDT by F15Eagle
President says 'status quo is unacceptable,' urges support for overhaul
WASHINGTON - President Bush urged lawmakers Saturday to "summon the political courage" to support his top domestic priority, an immigration overhaul that is hanging by a thread in Congress.
"We have an obligation to solve problems that have been piling up for decades," Bush said in his weekly radio address. "The status quo is unacceptable."
A fragile bipartisan compromise on immigration known as the "grand bargain" is due to come back before the Senate as early as next week. After critics sidelined the bill two weeks ago, it is being considered under an agreement to allow votes on a limited number of amendments from both Democrats and Republicans.
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Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
U.S. Senate switchboard: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard: (202) 225-3121
White House comments: (202) 456-1111
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He and I at least agree on something about immigration.
I’ll be happy when he’s gone.
Yes it is... but your 'solution' will kill us! By the grace of God... LET THIS BILL DIE!
More Executive Adventures in Mendacity here:
Bush vows permanent ban on future illegal migrants
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1855167/posts
Thanks but no thanks, Mr. President. We don’t care about YOUR ill-informed opinion! The American people and the conservative majority that elected you... WE don’t want AMMNESTY!
Resign, Mr. Bush.
Presidente Boosh, Give it up and BUILD DUNCAN HUNTER’S DOUBLE BORDER FENCE!!!!!
And clean out the Mexican shanty towns just across the border.
IMHO, the real battle is going to be next week. They’re going to try everything to get this through the Senate. Prior to this coming week, the previous battles have been but skirmishes.
The status quo is not acceptable and YOU, Mr. President, created the status quo. So, do you lecturing to yourself and let us know how it comes out.
Hey Bush,
Here’s a Peso. Go call someone who cares.
Happy birthday, GW—did you get those pesos I sent?
95.7% of FreeRepublic poll respondents DON’T WANT THIS SHAMNESTY BILL (as of this moment)
Senators / Representatives:
TAKE NOTICE ... Maybe a few don’t know where Gulfport, Mississippi is ...
BUT THEY DO KNOW WHERE THE VOTING BOOTH IS.
(with no apologies to the sellout traitor Trent Lott)
PRINT and MAIL this to your senator if they are for this "bill",,,Send a nice "Thank You" card to the ones who are against it,,,Time Is Short...
Agreed. Mr. Bush has lost the confidence of the governed. Time for him to go. Resign, Mr. Bush.
Next the political class say things like - "the only thing that can be done is_______"
And 99 times out of one-hundred - there are indeed other options. It is false to say - "the *only* thing that can be done is_______"
I'm afraid that the political class does think we are a bunch of idiots out here.
The "Status quo";Mr. President is your refusal to enforce EXISTING LAWS and to finish that border fence.
“Agreed. Mr. Bush has lost the confidence of the governed. Time for him to go. Resign, Mr. Bush”
Bush refuses to enforce the most important function of his office......protecting us from enemy invaders. He needs to go!
Bush has become unacceptable.
Why didn’t he use this much energy to sell SS Reform? Maybe for eliminating DeptEd? Getting us out of UN?
Did he change or did we wake up?
Sometimes I wonder.
BTTT
Read that, folks.
Not Abortion - the murder of the unborn.
Not spending - the enslavement of Americans to a monstrous debt.
Not taxation - the mechanism of the enslavement.
Not reducing the size of a massive, unresponsive federal government.
Not the replacement of tyrannical judges who substitute their own opinions for that of the people's representatives, knowing that they will never have to answer to the electorate.
Not the end of a federal bureaucracy that makes 'laws' simply by publishing 'Regulations' which have all the power of laws, and no accountability to the people.
Nope. None of that animates Mr. Bush.
Handing over political power to the aggressive, relentless populace of a fundamentally evil country on our border. That's what animates him.
Anybody still 'for' this guy? Anyone actually vote for him on the basis of this being his 'top' domestic priority?
He has chosen to commit political suicide over this (not that he’s going to run for any other office). It makes no sense and kinda makes me wanna reach for the tinfoil.
The only thing that makes any “sense” is money. When push-comes-to-shove, I usually figure there is money behind it.
“Did he change or did we wake up?”
Good question.
I think some of us are waking up, and peeling the scabs off our corneas.
Some say NWO / NAU / SPP and illegal invasion leading the charge
There is a lotta bizarre stuff going on. In fact, FR had an article where a guy was accusing Blair of submitting to the E.U. and erasing England’s borders for allowing illegal immigration and not letting popular consent rule the country.
I can’t find the article on FR because I can’t remember the title.
Strange stuff ...
If only President Bush had put forth this much effort on Social Security Reform, especially with a GOP Congress.
And I forgot to add:
Not the interior security of our country.
I remember when you could drive this country sea to sea and everyone you spoke to was a countryman: it was heartening. From San Francisco to New York, things were somewhat different, but mostly the same people, attitudes, and most certainly, language. All were Americans. Some of you will bring up the exceptions, but by and large it was true. Anyone over 45 can remember.
But now Mr. Bush wishes to enable those who would break down our walls, undermine our safety. This morning I had the displeasure of watching a slimy jerk from 'the U.S. hispanic chamber of commerce' actually say on national tv that breaking immigration law was like jaywalking.
Know what he's doing? Trying to grind down any resistance to guys like him gaining political power by importing their muscle - their people. Talking down the obstacles. It's an old con game. An old hustle: a gangster tactic.
These are the men who enabled the hijackers to walk freely among us, who pointed fingers at us when we said: who are they? Why are they here?
It's garbage like that who have made what was once one of the safest places on the planet into one of the more dangerous.
And Mr. Bush, the man who claims to be all about security and defense, is their point guy. Their agenda is again...his Top Domestic Priority.
The bodies are piling up in the streets even now. And all we get is a shrug of the shoulders. "Ain't gonna happen to me and mah kin".
BTTT!
My President is a traitor.
“I remember when you could drive this country sea to sea and everyone you spoke to was a countryman: it was heartening. From San Francisco to New York, things were somewhat different, but mostly the same people, attitudes, and most certainly, language. All were Americans. Some of you will bring up the exceptions, but by and large it was true. Anyone over 45 can remember.”
The country is slowly becoming balkanized. The shamnesty bill will finish us off. Quality of life will slide into the abyss.
National homebuilders, hotel chains, chicken processors have bought our politicians. Follow the money!!
Fact of the matter: Senor Bush is just doing what he's being told to do by those who really run the show.
bttt
A “Check out post #30” ping!
It isn’t necessary to ‘deport’ them.
Just make the jobs dry up by enforcing the existing law.
It is unspeakable hypocrisy for the President to lament the “status quo” which he is mainly to blame for. He has fostered illegal immigration for the sake of the large corporations that depend on cheap labor. He has arranged things (in violation of the law) so that Mexicans and others have a major incentive to migrate illegally. At the same time Bush has knowingly left our southern border virtually unprotected.
The solution is the same as the problem. THe administration has purposely obfuscated the situation saying that it is “unrealistic” to expel 12 million people. We do not have to. We only have to reverse the incentives.
Come on. As conservatives we believe in a market economy. Not that there should be one but that there always is one even if it is strangled by tyranny. We simply need to change the incentives:
- build the fence that Congress has already mandated.
- enforce that employment laws. Employers should be completely responsible for ascertaining via SS# that people are legal. Congress must mandate that a simple, foolproof means of checking SS# be available to all employers. Fines for breaking this law must be enforced across the board.
- put priority on employers rather than employees. THe recent raids which emphasizes the workers seems calculated to generate sympathy for letting them all stay. We are being manipulated! And, the enforcement is token and selective. Sure some illegals are criminals, drunk drivers, gang members, etc. and must be aggressively deported but most aren’t. I sympathize with these people who have been practically invited in by the Bush administration and industry. But they are illegals. They must leave.
- end the ‘anchor baby’ provision of US law even if a constitutional amendment is necessary.
Please note that the only law changes involved here are a simple, foolproof SS# checking system and the anchor baby provisions.
I am sick of the demands for a “comprehensive” law. I am sick of the Senate (except for a few stalwart conservatives). I am sick of this President. (Wow, two years ago that would have made me a DUmmie troll!)
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