W's Live Speech Thread

Fox News | 1-7-04 | my favorite headache

[My Favorite Headache]

Press conference starts at 2:45 EST....get the prilosec out...we are going to need it.

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040107-1.html

Fact Sheet: Fair and Secure Immigration Reform

January 7, 2004

Fair and Secure Immigration Reform

Today's Presidential Action

[GraniteStateConservative]

This is a Republican forum. First we have to beat the Dems before we can purge out RINOs.

[My Favorite Headache]

C'mon...that is weak...why would I leave FR? My point is vaild. Senor W and the America Sold Out should have remained.

Sigh...whatever then.

[RiflemanSharpe]

Eventually they would go home, it would take a few years but it is doable. All you need is the military to move on the border.

[dben]

We all know this Rove election year 'proposal' is never going to make it through Congress.

My guess it that Rove got antsy at that Time Magazine Jan. 4 poll that had Bush up 52-46 among likely voters..(with a =/- 4% margin of error)

[Laura Earl]

Or roofing houses.

[King Black Robe]

Memo to My Favorite Headache:

Conservative principles OUT

Win at all costs IN
What you win will be a surprise.

Go Team!

[adam_az]

"you know damn well this is selling America out."

I guess you know what the President is going to say before he says it?

Care to share your mindreading pills?

[Howlin]

The live thread pings don't usually have "editorializations" in them, that's probably why.

Besides, this thread should discuss what Bush says; there are plenty of other threads where he is being bashed.

[Beck_isright]

Quit yer bellyachin. Don't you know if W is to get re-elected we have to join the PC bandwagon like the pubbies?

[ShandaLear]

Oh, I don't know...maybe it's the pay, maybe it's the back breaking nature of the work.

[deport]

Howard Dean Plan:

Respecting Immigrants' Vital Role In Rebuilding The American Community

America is an immigrant nation. As President, I will recognize and respect the vital role immigrants have played in building the American community.

Candidate Bush promised that he would be a different kind of Republican, supportive of immigrants and their desires to achieve the American Dream. Candidate Bush promised to revamp the naturalization process so that immigrants who met the requirements could obtain their citizenship in six months or less. In 2001, President Bush said he would work with President Fox of Mexico to develop a new immigration policy that recognized the economic contribution of immigrants, particularly those from Mexico, and that would respect the human rights of these migrants.

Unfortunately, President Bush has not kept these promises.

While he made these promises and invited mariachis to play at the White House, his Attorney General, John Ashcroft, was deputizing local police authorities as junior INS agents to track down undocumented immigrants. Instead of exercising leadership to achieve comprehensive immigration reform, President Bush has turned his back on Mexico and other Latin American countries. He has ignored the dreams of millions of immigrants to become a legitimate part of our society, and not simply its unseen workforce. Instead of revamping and streamlining the immigration agency and its processes, the President has allowed the agency to be swallowed up into the Department of Homeland Security, where immigrants are routinely treated as terrorists until proven otherwise.

We need a White House that will lead Congress to enact real immigration reform. As President, I will work tirelessly to achieve that goal.


I will work to ensure that people who work hard, pay taxes, and otherwise obey the rules can become full participants in our society, including becoming citizens.

I will work to regularize the inevitable future migration of labor in a way that makes economic and humanitarian sense. Deaths in the desert do neither.

I will propose reforms that ensure we can meet our economy?s need for workers at all skill levels, without pitting foreign workers against U.S. workers and while respecting workers' rights including the right to organize.

I will work to forge stronger partnerships with countries from which immigrants migrate -- especially Mexico -- so that in the long run, fewer people will be driven by desperation to break laws and risk their lives for basic opportunities that every human being deserves.

I will work to ensure that immigrants who are detained by the Department of Homeland Security are afforded their basic civil rights and that our concern for national security does not become another excuse for racial profiling.

I will build on our country?s long history of welcoming immigrants in ways that reflect our need for security but do not sacrifice the basic ideals upon which this nation was founded.

[You Dirty Rats]

Militarize the border?

How many troops and at what cost?

The military has better things to do than play border guard.

[dben]

I thought this was a Conservative forum?

[OXENinFLA]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/01/20040107-1.html Temporary Worker Program

President Bush does not support amnesty because individuals who violate America's laws should not be rewarded for illegal behavior and because amnesty perpetuates illegal immigration. The President proposes that the Federal Government offer temporary worker status to undocumented men and women now employed in the United States and to those in foreign countries who have been offered employment here. The workers under temporary status must pay a one-time fee to register in the program, abide by the rules, and return home after their period of work expires.

[TomGuy]

My early American history pic got pulled by the moderator. That's unAmerican.

lol.

Now even our history can no longer be referenced.

[VU4G10]

http://www.cspan.org/watch

 

[My Favorite Headache]

I thought it was a CONSERVATIVE NEWS FORUM. Not a Republican forum. This is the lease Conservative thing Bush could do. C'mon...it's not like I am sitting here typing out...Vote Clark! Vote Dean!

I am pissed...and rightly so.

[MineralMan]

"We all know this Rove election year 'proposal' is never going to make it through Congress."

Wrong. Congress is almost evenly split. All it will take is a few RINOs to pass this nonsense, and there are plenty of those. If Bush is proposing it, it will pass. Guaranteed.

Don't like that? Wait for the renewal of the Assault Weapons Bill. That's going to pass, too. Bush says he'll sign it, which is an open invitation for the RINOs to pass it.

Those are my predictions.

[KantianBurke]

Let's not forget Brett Schundler. Brilliant guy. Too bad NJ prefers corrupt losers as Govs.