[wk4bush2004]

I'm not sure if this is a good idea. This could provide easier attempts for illegals to sneak into the US.

[adam_az]

There goes my respect for Norquist. Can't believe he fell for this crap.

[rdb3]

Well, The Presidential election for 2008 has a casualty now.

Stick a fork in yourself, Dr. Frist. You're done.

[Shermy]

"Meeting with reporters, Dr. Frist, of Tennessee, said, "I am encouraging my colleagues to defer, to postpone discussions of immigration and to postpone that debate.""

BS. Congress is doing nothing but witchhunting Bolton. Debate it now, with or without these "amendments."

[dinok]

Another gutless republican...

[liberallarry]

...against business groups that seek foreign laborers.

cheap foreign laborers. dirt-cheap foreign laborers who will rely on emergency rooms for health care, who don't care too much whether or not their children receive a decent education, who don't think too much about retirement, and who are not very good at organizing or asserting their legal rights.

[umgud]

This is proof we will see a loosening of restrictions on illegals long before we will see any sort of meaningfull border security (if ever).

[k2blader]

First sure turned out to be useless.

[Texas_Jarhead]

Once again it appears that our supposed national legislative leaders from both sides of the aisle have their hearts set on giving away the birthright purchased for us with our ancestors' blood to the poor uneducated cultural separatists, uninterested in assimilation, simply because they have managed to burglarize the nation through their sheer weight of numbers.

[Travis McGee]

"I am encouraging my colleagues to defer, to postpone discussions of immigration and to postpone that debate."

U.S. Constitution Article 4 Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,

and shall protect each of them against Invasion;"

[Travis McGee]

ping

[piceapungens]

Big time BS alert from this blow-dried fellow. We need a conressman who has a pair to run in 2008, not this cocktail party type.

[Ben Ficklin]

So, The Immigration Reform Act of 2005 will be created in Conference Committee.

[DustyMoment]

Frist Opposes Amendments on Immigrants

IOW, Frist is announcing that he wants to be a first round washout in his anticipated '08 presidential bid.

This is an idiotic policy and it is going to come back to bite the Congress in the butt if we are attacked as the result of their inaction on this issue.

[ken21]

Senators from each party seek to add amendments that would make it easier for employers to hire more foreign workers.

defacto pubbie and dem policy.

[Pride in the USA]

The Republicans are fast losing ground, I fear. They are losing the support of many conservatives and that may reflect negatively in the polling booths in 2006 and again in 2008. I worry about our country and the direction in which it continues to head. We are a nation controlled by what is essentially a Judicial oligarchy. The illegal alien situation continues to threaten our borders and culture and it costs us billions in health care, just to name two of the problems associated with it. The symbols of our Christian faith are eradicated one at a time, excised from our public awareness like so many malignant growths. And still every day it seems like we read about yet another GOP elected official going AWOL. Is nothing worth fighting for?

[DoughtyOne]

Frist = Larst

[airborne]

I guess it's too much to just enforce the laws already on the books.

Politicians sure can waste time and money!

[swordfish71]

Delay= Kill

The longer they wait, the likely it is that some in this country (ourselves for the most part excluded) will let it slide.

Sorry Doc Frist, you just got the kiss off.

[Reagan is King]

Great, it looks like we traded a spineless Republican Majority Leader (Lott) for another spineless Republican Majority Leader. He better hope he doesn't need my vote in '08. We need a Tom DeLay clone in the Senate.