Posted on 08/27/2005 10:23:56 AM PDT by GOPGuide
Rove is gunning to push Bush's approval ratings into the low 30's.
One chink in the plan though is how many Republican Congressmen are willing to go down with Bush's collapsing poll numbers.
Stay tuned...
"PHOENIX - Struggling to pacify his party's warring wings, President Bush is moving toward allowing illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. before February 2004 to qualify for guest-worker visas. People smuggled in after then would be deported. "
"This plan is *not* an amnesty. Incidentally, I have a wonderful bridge in Brooklyn for sale..."
The sad thing is this uninformed woman hasn't been paying attention to all the anti illegal immigration legislation "Butch," has vetoed in the last 6 months.
And more and more he will get one from the DNC!
There's no doubt in my mind that with oil prices the way they are and possible declining support for the war in Iraq the GOP could very well lose Congress in 2006 if they pass this nonsense. People don't want it as they see it as a threat to their livelihoods, which it is.
Here's how Cong Tom Tancredo explained it in an interview with John Hawkins of Rightwingnews.com, just prior to the last election.
Hawkins: In poll after poll, by a large margin, Americans have appeared to support cracking down on illegal immigrants. Why do we have so many people in government who still don't seem to take our immigration laws seriously?
Tancredo: Because they don't believe that people will vote on it exclusively. Most of colleagues believe that they will be able to finesse this issue. That is to say, that they will be able to tell their constituents "Yes it is a problem, we'll have to look at it," but it won't be the thing most people vote on, it won't be the ultimate issue. As long as that's the case, they can get by with finessing it.
Hawkins: But why are they finessing it? Why not just take it on?
Tancredo: There are three reasons. The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters. The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency. The third reason, of course, is that the President of the United States is trying to create a wedge issue here and trying to get a portion of Hispanics to vote for him where they haven't in the past. So you have these three huge problems with trying to get anything done in the Congress.
"One chink in the plan though is how many Republican Congressmen are willing to go down with Bush's collapsing poll numbers."
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And it's a BIG chink.
Republicans are going to take more of a beating than Mike Tyson ever dreamed about . .
Nice try at covering for him, but that excuse doesn't fly. If the economy needs immigrant workers, then they can come here legally. There is never, ever an excuse for rewarding lawbreakers. The only people who'd be in favor of this are the ones who want to erase the border altogether.
All this is rubbish.
Close the borders, then admit guest workers. (This way we know WHO is entering the country; we welcome them, permit them to work, and to GO HOME again when they finish. But nobody gets in without an identity check.)
Don't try and ferret out who's already here; just let them
stay. (We lost 40 million people in the last 30 years through abortion; we've only gained 10 million tops through illegal immigration.)
GOP meltdown pings ..
And whose idea was this? Mary Poppins? And how are we going to be able to decipher just when they got here? Maybe we'll just ask them and they will tell us?
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the White House has not authorized them to discuss the policy, which is subject to change.
Politicians are also "subject to change."
I was thinking about the approval ratings this morning. The media attaches all things to the war in Iraq but personally I think the plummeting approval ratings are a combination of things. The media is intentionally asking the wrong questions.
Huh? What wing of the Republican Party is pro illegal immigration?!
Read: "trial balloon"
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