Boehner hints a back down on 'amnesty'

The Washington Times ^ | March 29, 2006 | Charles hurt

[surely_you_jest]

House Majority Leader John A. Boehner refused yesterday to rule out compromising with the Senate to expand the House border security bill to include a guest-worker program or provisions that opponents call "amnesty." "Let's wait and see what the Senate can produce," he told reporters yesterday when asked whether House Republicans would reject the Senate Judiciary Committee's proposal to allow the estimated 12 million illegal aliens now in the U.S. to seek citizenship after paying a fine.

[Indy Pendance]

Your photoshop was a classic, probably in the top 10 of FR humor posts!

[Darkwolf377]

If you expect nothing from your leaders, you will get nothing. Your condescending words do nothing to advance your argument, and only serve lower the value of your opinions in the eyes of your fellow conservatives.

So you speak for all conservatives now? Delusions of grandeur.

Once again you completely dodge reality. Enjoy what you get in November. Yeah, those Democrats will be so grateful for the victory you've given them that they'll be SO much harder on illegals than the Republicans. At least you can sit there and feel happy at tossing out the evil Republicans, while the Dems accelerate the flow of illegals into this country.

Let's try it this way: We throw out the Republicans, and the Democrats take over Congress.

Please explain how this will be an improvement.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

How am I changing the topic?

[trubluolyguy]

If all the illegals in the country aren't lined up and shot, is that amnesty to you?

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Wow, I never suggested violence. I'm surprised you feel that strongly.

As far as amnesty goes, if I rob a bank and am not arrested and sent to prison, is that amnesty or am I just robbing banks that others don't want to?

[tobyhill]

"Amnesty doesn't have to be a bill. It can simply be refusing to enforce the law, which has been Bush's policy since he was governor of Texas."

Please point to Bush's Policy as Governor concerning the law enforcement community ignoring the law. Most policies from Government Officials are in writing so it shouldn't be too hard, if it's true, for you to find.

BTW, One second it's the Feds problem and next it's a states problem, which is it?

[Rokke]

"Amazing that you took time out of your busy FReeping day to come across my post"

Not really. Yours was just one more post on a long thread that I was clicking through. But you raise a good point. The only improvement I would add to FreeRepublic is an "ignore poster" option. I think we'd all find some use for it.

[woofie]

Group Hug?

[claudiustg]

What a putz.

[Txsleuth]

LOL...Rotsa Ruck!

[wardaddy]

A great man.

one of my favorite Yankees..

;>)

[Quix]

I'd have to look back through a couple hundred FREEPMAILS to get a more specific recall of it.

Perhaps rabidly emotional? I just don't recall.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

It's everyone's problem, thanks to the wonderful folks we have elected to represent us-LOL-in Washington D.C.

And it's going to be an even greater problem once this Reconquista bill is enacted.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

LOL.

[King Prout]

tonight marks the very first time I have heard an officer of the Border Patrol use the magic words to describe current (and projected future) security measures: "defense in depth"

the last time I heard those magic words in the same context, they were used to describe the LOSING strategy the post-succession (Later(Western)) Roman Empire used to "deal with" the invading barbarian tribes - which eventually deromanized their provinces and at length erased the western empire from the map.

If I were a *suspicious* man, I'd be likely to suppose that whoever is setting these policies is actively TRYING to cause the de-Americanization of the American Southwest...

[arasina]

You have FReepmail, my FRiend.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

There are large swaths of the Southwest that are already de-Americanized.

Maybe "de-Anglicized" would be a better description, considering the the increasingly nebulous meaning of the word "America" and its derivations.

I suppose if American Studies departments exist in the future students in those courses will start by studying Tenochtitlan.

[King Prout]

agreed - posted similar comments yesterday (and previously)

this "jobs no American will do" mantra is pure BS.

eliminate all government subsidies and we will rapidly rediscover that all labor is noble, if it staves off the wolf.

(I need to add this paraphrase to my homepage, I'm using it so often) to paraphrase the good Doctor: "Believe it - the prospect of starving to death in a fortnight serves wonderfully to concentrate the work ethic!"

[King Prout]

I am feeling that strange emotion - a bitter satisfaction and malicious glee commingled with deep sorrow at being proved correct and regret for dead alternatives - at seeing the public discourse finally catch up to where I was in 1990.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

[tobyhill]

It is a problem that has shared blames throughout the spectrum but I won't make a prejudgment of the strength of a bill until is goes through the whole process and I certainly won't Bash Bush because of speculation of what he might or might not do. My guess is the bill will be stronger than the Senates version, weaker than the House's version and this won't be the first bill the President Vetoes.