Posted on 07/10/2006 5:42:12 PM PDT by garbageseeker
White House adviser Karl Rove is scheduled to speak tomorrow at the annual conference of the federally funded, left-wing, open-borders-advocacy group, the National Council of La Raza.
If he does not want his speech to look like an act of appeasement, he should confront La Raza on its opposition to commonsense policies designed to secure both U.S. borders and U.S. pocketbooks.
La Raza, which means “The Race” in Spanish, has denounced as “horrendous” and “appalling” the House immigration bill passed in December, which was sponsored by Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R.-Wis.) and supported by the overwhelming majority of House Republicans. The bill, which calls for tough worksite enforcement of immigration laws and 700 miles of border fencing, was condemned by La Raza as a “laundry list of mean-spirited and intrusive provisions concocted by the most radical immigrations restrictionists in Congress.”
Will Rove defend the immigration reforms passed by President Bush’s party in the House and tell La Raza that House Republicans are neither “mean-spirited” nor “radical”? He should. House Republicans deserve Rove’s support.
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So by going to the meeting he endorsed them? I don't think so.
Didn't we go through this crap when then Governor Bush was accused of speaking at some college and people tried to paint him as a racist?
Nice dodge on Keyes and reparations, by the way.
Then why in the hell didn't you just ask? Like the NAACP La Raza will NEVER accept anything Bush does as beneficial to Hispanics. Is that clear enough? Bush will do what he thinks is right and work with congress to get a bill but it will have nothing to do with a deal with La Raza.
That was a private meeting with Mfume. Bush has made it a point to never publicly address the conventions of the NAACP, or any other civil rights organization.
He is continuing that tradition by not addressing LaRaza.
You already answered my question. I have no more questions to ask.
I believe this was in front of the group and it was the last time due to the disrespect shown to him during the meeting.
Yep. Strangely enough, it won't help the Dems as much as they think- I have a hard time believing union members & blacks are thrilled with this invasion of cheap labor. It's the one issue that overhwelming numbers of Americans disagree with both parties over.
Come on. Everyone here knows that Rove and Company, it concert with people like Bill Clinton, have been working to "mainstream" La Raza for a very long time. This current meeting is just a culmination of that effort.
Who's next? Louie Farakhan?
The link I posted was from 2000, this link is to the private meeting in 2004
http://patterico.com/2004/12/22/2498/bush-meets-with-naacps-mfume/
---Maybe you should practice the use of Italics then.---
Yes, and maybe you should stop being such a self righteous, whining busybody. Just a thought.
As for the subject of this thread, I object to a high ranking administration official speaking to racist organization like La Raza. Nothing against the man, but I am entirely opposed to the policies of this administration in regards to illegal immigration.
Sounds like you're smoking the whacky weed to me.
And so I guess when you endorsed Alan Keyes you also think reparations are a good thing. See how that works.
Good. My father tried to teach me that 'like water on a duck's back' thing but I could never quite get the hang of it. I decided instead that writing words was effective for me but realize I will always be one of those emotional types.
I like the Chihuahua imagery. The little kick is probably quite satisfying. :o)
This administration has a better immigration plan than President Reagan had.
At the start of his campaign for president in 1979, then Candidate Reagan proposed a new law that would create a totally open boarder with both MEXICO and CANADA. He called it the North American Accord plan. Reagan proposed that citizens of all three nations could cross the borders at will for any normal purpose including business purposes and taking jobs.
Under the 1979 Reagan plan any Mexican citizen could cross the United States border with only a birth certificate. They could work and stay in the USA for as long as they wished. Under the Reagan accord the Mexican border was to be free and open. There could be no illegal Mexican immigration. The fact that the person wanting to immigrate was Mexican made the immigration legal.
Of course Reagan never got what he wanted in that regard. The 1986 bill that Reagan signed and approved gave illegal Mexican immigrants amnesty. Amnesty was as close as Reagan go his immigration desires. The north american free trade agreement was just a portion of the propsed North American Accord.
Reagan made the case many times that a totally open border with Mexico would bring prosperity to both nations.
Compared to Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush is hard liner on immigration.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Ronald_Reagan_Immigration.htm
And with that, I'll let you all argue among yourselves.
---Federally funded?!? I'm sorry, but does the Federal Government fund the KKK or the Aryan Nation? Obviously they don't, so why would they fund a group of left-wing hispanic biggots? ---
And why would they increase that funding by TEN times in 2005?
"Isn't this a crazy thread? "
This is one of the worst threads I have seen on FR. You get a guy who makes a perfectly innocuous observation from a reasonable historical perspective, and some "Bush is God" bot goes J'accuse!!!! using the most puerile reasoning
hitherto known to human existence. Then he summons all the little Bush groupie automatrons, and this is what we get
Neener neener neener!
Quaba quaba quaba!
Ga ga goo goo!
Neener neener!
quaba quaba!
All you need on this thread is a
baby rattle
pacifier.
The only reason I read this thread was your marvelous ascerbic wit : )
---Then why in the hell didn't you just ask?---
No cursing, your holiness.
Rove is no longer a member of the administration. He left earlier this year and is now an outside adviser to Bush.
Yeah, Rush uses the Pit Yorkie allegory!
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