Posted on 03/30/2006 11:46:10 PM PST by SUSSA
House conservatives yesterday issued a dire warning to President Bush and Republican leadership that they will pay a devastating political price if they proceed with a guest-worker program or anything resembling amnesty for illegal aliens before securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws.
"They will remember in November," Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican, said of voters nationwide. "And many of those who have stood with our Republican majority in the last decade are not only angry, many of them plan to be absent from the polls" this year when the entire House and one-third of the Senate is up for re-election.
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Contrast that to today where conservative estimates say at least 12 million would qualify. After the fraud we're sure to get it'll probably be more like 30 million. Coupled with family chain laws when all is said and done we're probably talking 40 to 50+ million new people in the next 10 years.
There's no comparison to what transpired in 1986 and what's being attempted now no matter how Fox news or anyone else tries to make it so.
DeWine should be defeated, not just because he's one of the worst, but because it will send a message to the rest of the Bush Republicans.
I thought Karl Rove was a genius?
I think it largely comes from being born with a silver spoon in the mouth and never having to work a real job where you answer to someone else. It tends to put one in a bubble.
"President Bush has done an amazing job of transforming the howling at FR into a remarkable imitation of the criticisms at DU."
BRAVO SIERRA, sir!
Bush has turned into a version of DU!
kowtowing to the UN
Restricting freedom of speech by signing CFR
seeking unrestricted immigration, appointing incompetent internationalists to high appointed office
Pushing international anti-soverignty treaties like LOST and CAFTA
jabbering about Islam being a "religion of peace"
launching new and expensive entitlement programs
calling the patriot Minutemen "Vigilantes."
I could go on and on but I just ate breakfast and I'd like to keep my food down.
House conservatives yesterday issued a dire warning to President Bush and Republican leadership that they will pay a devastating political price if they proceed with a guest-worker program or anything resembling amnesty for illegal aliens before securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws.
Reagan made his own mind up to do it, and it was not Congress that pressured him. Don't you just hate it when history proves "folk lore" to be wrong!
BTW, I loved Reagan, and think he was one of our Greatest Presidents. He was not perfect!
LLS
Correct, and the reason the answer is no this that oligarchy has effectly taken control of the nation, does not matter who you vote for since they control both polictical parties. The only hope is third party.
bump, he is doing his master bidding very well.
Bush's push for amnesty will hand Congress over to the Demos
President Bush is NOT for any of the scenarios that you suggest. Congress and the Senate may be hoping for those things to pass, but Bush has been much more limited in what he wants in the way of immigrants, and remains strong on border enforcement.
President Bush is against Amnesty, and only wants a limited guest worker program that does NOT lead to citizenship.
He does want to make LEGAL immigration a more efficient process, but he is much more conservative in his approach than Reagan was. You couldn't tell it from the hate Bush chorus here on FR!
Deport all illegals, secure our borders, and then institute a limited guest worker program that does not lead to citizenship.
LLS
Bush will sign whatever comes to his desk, including a massive amnesty, there's no doubt in my mind and why it must be stopped before that happens.
Deport all illegals, secure our borders, and then institute a limited guest worker program that does not lead to citizenship.
Yup that's what needs to be done but only if it's proven a guest worker program is necessary.
This one's a REAL no-brainer...why should WE be paying for the incarceration of illegals? Deport them now to their native countries...end of story.
President Bush, to the great detriment of the country and the Republican party is not listening. The Republicans had better be prepared. They will lose their majority in the next election and the Democrats will impeach George Bush.
President Bush's true stripes are showing in this his second term and they color him an internationalist.
The illegal aliens and the criminals who hire them and the criminals who harbor them are getting out in the street making their desires known. It is way past time those of us who support the rule of law and secure borders did the same.
Join Veterans for Secure Borders, The Minuteman Project, Latino Americans for Immigration Reform, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, and other groups protesting amnesty for these criminals, and demanding the government protect our borders.
http://www.areckoning.com/
FReepers should be at this rally in strength. Saturday, May 6, in Crawford, TX.
Hayworth's views are clouded by the fact that he is in a gerrymandered House district.
Has it occurred to anyone that many conservatives have realized, too late, that Bush's policies include several collossal failures that all but the most lemming-like GOP loyalist can see? These representatives fear repurcussions at the polls, and the smart ones are pre-spinning losses as a "conservative backlash" rather than an embrace of democratic principles.
I have no doubt that there will be some conservative backlash at the polls. I contemplate my own daily. But the realist in me knows that it will be hard for all the true conservatives to skip the vote, or vote third party in the face of a Hillary. So I doubt the backlash will be sizeable. Instead, any congressional losses (my opinion of the presidential situation is yet unformed, as I maintain doubts of the electibility of Hilary) will be, in my opinion, because Bush mis-represented conservative (and yes, REPUBLICAN) ideals to the electorate. He was a spending liberal, an internationalist, and a tactical fool as commander in chief of the military. He did it all under the name of Republicanism - when it was in fact more Franklin than Teddy. Our failure as Republicans, was allowing him to take up the mantle that he did not deserve and drag it through the mud. Now the shallow, average, uninformed voter will knee-jerk reject the GOP. And who can blame them, since in all likelihood the candidate will be another open-borders, Globalist, Rockefellar Republican?
My point is that we, as conservatives are to blame as well. We stood by and told ourselves "hey, it's better than Gore. Sure beats Kerry." That was our standard. It's better than Gore. It brings a tear to my eye to reflect on the nobility, the uncompromising virtue, the tenacity, the fortitude, in that statement. How proud I am.
I know it is terribly "unpragmatic" (as if pragmatism was a virute in and of itself) and quixotic of me, but we really need a true conservative candidate. A Fair-trade, border-security oriented candidate who knows that democracy can not be imposed with a gun, and understands that where the masses are corrupt, their leaders (yes, even those that are elected!) will be as well. How about a candidate with the attitude that we will bomb you to hell if you harbor terrorists, and never drop a single foot soldier in? Did Reagan decide to spread Democracy in Libya?
Well said.
I've found that arrogance is usually the facade that the ignorant hide behind. I find it amazing that you,"emotional solutions," people cannot find it within yourselves to come to a logical conclusion. Open the borders, let them all in, and a few years from now we can all look forward to the Mexican flag flying over ours.
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