Posted on 04/23/2006 5:27:56 AM PDT by nj26
When President Bush arrives in Irvine on Monday morning to pitch his immigration reform plan, one of his party's best-known local standard-bearers will be maintaining a respectful — and politically careful — distance.
Dana Rohrabacher, the nine-term Republican congressman from Huntington Beach, generally supports the president, but disagrees with his immigration policies. So Rohrabacher plans to sit out Bush's speech to the Orange County Business Council.
"I don't want to be behind him looking glum and not applauding," Rohrabacher said. "So as not to be rude to the president — which I think is inexcusable — I think I'll just be staying away."
Rohrabacher's remarks reflect deep unhappiness within the GOP toward Bush's immigration stance, particularly in Republican Orange County, which is famous as a caldron of border-crackdown sentiment and where many Republicans criticize his guest-worker plan as amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Bush's decision to speak here might prove an embarrassing miscalculation, said John J. Pitney, a government professor at Claremont McKenna College who used to live in Orange County and worked for the national GOP.
"I'm not sure they had their O.C. antennae up," he said of White House schedulers. "They don't realize how complicated this issue is. It's possible this is a Daniel-in-the-lions'-den moment, but that's not really characteristic of this administration."
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I lay these odds: they will continue to willfully refuse to understand. Why is the question.
Do you have a link to the chart you posted? If that's legitimate it is damning evidince that our President is in bed with Vicente Fox and by omission of action approves of illegal immigration.
Bush will apologize to Vicente for Rohrabacher's insolence.
Sadly, I haven't seen anything to encourage me to believe any different. I have hope, but it placed in Another's hands.
How stupid for you to be so blind. Name one mistake on that list and I'll eat it. You'll be the first moaning this fall when the Republicans get whacked! How sad for you to be blind and ignorant!
Yes, it is going to affect GOP turnout in the upcoming elections, and probably very substantially so, at least from what I can see here in Orange County. There are a lot of very, very angry conservatives.
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No I don't. I right-clicked on it and see (as you probably did) that it is from a server that JustPiper uses. I am sure that JP would be glad to share with us her source for that.
If you have not seen it I highly recommend taking a look at JustPiper's ongoing and frequently updated thread on the immigration/borders/illegal-invasion thread.
"Maybe, if the uproar is loud enough, it will give Bush a good dose of reality -- that 70%+ are opposed to his amnesty (under any name) for illegals."
WHAT IS WITH BUSH ON THIS ISSUE?
WHY isn't he enforcing the laws ON THE BOOKS NOW?
Surely he must realize by now that Mexico is NO friend of the U.S. and that this free for all immigrataion crap is down right dangerous to our nations security.
I hear you. Hopefully, the powers that be in the Republican Party will hear you as well -- rather than using name-calling to further alienate the conservative vote. You can always tell when the argument is lost: name-calling ensues. You are a conservative with class. Thank you.
The results will be telling, won't they?!
Not when they continue getting increasingly "lite".
I agree with your odds. The Republicans are going to be very disappointed come election time.
Check this out. A hearing on the lack of worksite enforcement:
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju21911.000/hju21911_0f.htm
It's a shame, for the American people, that they have squandered their great opportunity.
Very much agreed.
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