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No one is pretending there isn't a problem, including the president (else he would not have put forth his proposal, which is NOT policy, or we would currewntly have a guest worker program).

We are in an election year. I do not want ANY public statements which erode support for the President and the GOP. I also think Tancredo is foolish, in that he could mobilize Hispanic democrats to target some people in the house.

There needs to be a solution, but the type of public discussion I think you would find satisfying is not one that is inclined to be positive.

No one is pretending there isn't a problem, including the president (else he would not have put forth his proposal, which is NOT policy, or we would currewntly have a guest worker program).

You're still fixating on this policy/proposal hairsplitting?
The President hasn't recognized yet that he is the problem on this matter.
President Bush's Illegal Alien Amnesty policy proposal is a symptom of the problem, not evidence of a productive search for a solution.

We are in an election year. I do not want ANY public statements which erode support for the President and the GOP. I also think Tancredo is foolish, in that he could mobilize Hispanic democrats to target some people in the house.

You didn't want to talk about this in the off years either.
Who proposed this "not an Amnesty" Amnesty this election year?
Now, people like Tancredo or folks on this website who've been warning that Bush would do this, and that it would be a disaster, are supposed to be quiet, because we're "in an election year?"
That's pretty bold-faced.
The single public pronouncement that has caused the most erosion of support for President Bush was made by President Bush himself, and I've linked it above. That fact is as unavoidable as the conversation that has inevitably ensued, and you can not silence it.
Heck, I just listened to nationally syndicated radio hostess Laura Ingraham talk for 15 minutes about the very article at the top of this thread.
We are talking about the President's unpopular Amnesty proposal this election year because the President announced his unpopular Amnesty proposal this election year.

There needs to be a solution, but the type of public discussion I think you would find satisfying is not one that is inclined to be positive.

The type of discussion and solution I would find satisfying would also satisfy two-thirds of the American people. Yet you submit that it wouldn't be positive?
The source of the non-positive elements of this conversation is President Bush. He had a chance to be on the right side of an issue that has the support of most of the American people and cuts heavily against the Democrats, to our great electoral advantage.
He failed to do so, and here we are.

So we're just supposed to shut up, i suppose.

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