Posted on 04/26/2006 12:06:59 AM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
President Bush and a group of senators yesterday reached general agreement on an immigration bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for many illegal aliens.
But left out of the closed-door White House meeting were senators who oppose a path to citizenship. The meeting even snubbed two men who had been considered allies of Mr. Bush on immigration -- Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and chairman of the immigration subcommittee, and Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican.
Mr. Bush in brief remarks to the press said there was agreement to get "a bill that does not grant automatic amnesty to people, but a bill that says, somebody who is working here on a legal basis has the right to get in line to become a citizen." But senators, speaking afterward, said Mr. Bush was far more specific in the meeting.
"There was a pretty good consensus that what we have put into the Hagel-Martinez proposal here is the right way to go," said Sen. Mel Martinez, Florida Republican. "I think he was very clear [on] pathway to citizenship, so long as it goes to the back of the line, and he even opened the door here for something we've haggled back and forth on, that you can shrink the time for people to become citizens by simply enlarging the number of green cards."
And Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, said Mr. Bush "endorsed the concept of an earned citizenship."
That would represent a substantial change on the part of the Bush administration, which just last year said it opposed a path to citizenship for those currently here illegally.
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Even as Mr. Bush is moving in that direction, the House majority leader yesterday rejected it.
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It's a pro-american sub-party that can field candidates and win nominations to represent either/both of the Parties in a working two-party system. TeamAmerica.com is a good start... who else? AmericanCause.com?
And what Governor(therefore qualified)should be the pro-american infra-party candidate for President in '08; and what House, Senate, and Gubernatorial candidates should be supported by a pro-american infra-party in these six months of '06 elections?
Exactly who will pay the medical for these poor people paid substandard wages? The taxpayers...we can barely afford the premiums for our own families. I am so ticked about this, I doubt I will bother to go to the polls-why bother.
Well my food FRiend, time to take a stand.....as a long time freeper, vet, conservative and law abiding citizen I now call for the immediate impeachment of George W. Bush for the crime of treason.
We all thought Campaign Finance Reform would never become law, either.
"Foolish" hardly describes it. "Suicidal" is a better adjective. These guys are just dying to be in the minority next year, aren't they?
The far right had its chance to back that bill in 2005, but declined to. Instead, they chose to back deportation.
you have a point there
After the GOP loses both Houses of Congress this November, the RAT majority will draft articles of impeachment. I would hardly call the RATs patriotic, though.
I'm from Nebraska, and I would seriously love to read a letter of resignation from him.
I wish I didn't. Scary, isn't it? We're being sold, right before our eyes, by the very people we worked so hard to elect. If this bill passes and is signed into law, you can see the end of the country in the rear view mirror.
Yeah, no kidding. This certainly isn't good. It firmly entrenches a pattern that encourages those wishing to have immigrant status to ignore all of our laws, rules, and to do their best to get here, legally or illegally, and if legally, simply overstay their visas.
So why bother having immigration laws as I see it. So hell, as long as we're "there," let's just get rid of all of our immigration laws since they don't mean anything.
After all, what the hell's the point!
I am past that. It is time to invoke articles of secession (Virginia first, whose next? Georgia?.
It is time to invoke articles of secession (Virginia first, whose next? Georgia?.
Another GREAT idea !!
What would Denny Crane do?
Love that guy,last night's show was good.
Yeah, Razz, I got a couple of those myself this past week. Did exactly what you did; explaining in an accompaning letter that, although, I have sent you (RNC) "gifts" in the past, you can stick these in the proverbial "bodily orifice that does not let the sun shine in. And until we some conservative action up your way; you can take me off your mailing list."
This is absolute crap.
What an astute observation. Quite correct.
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