Posted on 04/26/2006 5:20:12 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans, according to senators who attended a recent White House meeting.
Several officials familiar with the meeting also said Democrats protested radio commercials that blamed them for Republican-written legislation that passed the House and would make illegal immigrants vulnerable to felony charges.
Bush said he was unfamiliar with the ads, which were financed by the Republican National Committee, according to officials familiar with the discussions.
At another point, Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other members of his party pressed the president about their concern that any Senate-passed bill would be made unpalatable in final talks with the House.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, said the lawmaker who would lead House negotiators, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, had been "intractable" in negotiations on other high-profile bills in the past. Bush did not directly respond to the remark, officials said.
The Republican and Democratic officials who described the conversation did so Wednesday on condition of anonymity, saying they had not been authorized to disclose details.
Bush convened the session to give momentum to the drive for election-year immigration legislation, a contentious issue that has triggered large street demonstrations and produced divisions in both political parties. Senators of both parties emerged from the session praising the president's involvement and said the timetable was achievable.
"Yes, he thinks people should be given a path to citizenship," said Sen. Mel Martinez., R-Fla., a leading supporter of immigration legislation in the Senate.
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Hint ... I was talking about you
ROFLMAO!~
Well look at how cute that argument is. I remember that one when a marxist made it as he was supporting the Perot campaign in '92. Quaint but antiquated if you ask me.
Recall, that at that time, the American Nazi's were threatening to show up "to help?"
If that is a backhanded slap at Bush, I'm not biting.
FOTFLOL!
Is Saul Alinsky logged in?
LOL.
To be fair, I can understand why people would believe that. You let a lie/misrepresentation hang out there long enough and people begin to believe it.
I thought he'd said it myself until this thread. I'm actually pleased to read the entire thing, and wish I'd payed more attention at the time. In any case, thanks for straightening me out.
My advice to the minute men is...if it doesn't apply to you, it's not about you. Same thing I tell me kids, actually. ; ).
Quite a charming group, them.
You know better than to suspect that I'd been in here bot-baitin'. I'd rather pleasure a tiger in a phone booth than to get you onto my case!
No, and the Minutemen weren't even on the border at the time.
PRESIDENT BUSH: I'm against vigilantes in the United States of America. I'm for enforcing law in a rational way. That's why you got a Border Patrol, and they ought to be in charge of enforcing the border.
Most likely, the President not knowing who the reporter was talking about, gave his general philosophy of what he did not want to see at the border.
Thanks for the transcript. (To hell with common knowledge and conventional wisdom)
OK Chuckles I'll play. I'll leave out the independents even though I voted so. In 2000 the best man the GOP had running, the most knowledgeable, and the wisest who does know how to take advice from ones other than loyalist yes men, and actually had some good ideas especially on tax reform was Steve Forbes.
But hey many feel for the age old MSM trick of choose the MSM chosing for the voters via talking heads the most electable canidate from the GOP for the Sheeple. The most electable in their eyes of course the most Liberal of both parties. For the GOP that was George W Bush. But one man knew how to handle the media and get past that. That man was Reagan.
I would like to sound a note of warning regarding the proposed guest worker programme - you really don't want to repeat Europe's mistakes. Germany had one for Turkish workers, and the net effect was to create a more or less permanent underclass who felt no connection to the country in which they lived. Furthermore, guest workers tend to stay longer than you'd expect a guest to linger.
Regards, Ivan
Is this one of those dating forums? If so you win
No, don't take it that way. I just wanted to use the apportunity to point out how E.D. Hill manipulates this issue. She's been waiting for it to bubble up for several years.
I commented on one of those threads that the good governor was making motions like someone considering a run for the White House. Now I know Governor Bush isn't interested in running for President but I just couldn't resist posting that comment.
Just as I thought, quite a few heads immediately started spinning. It seems just mentioning the name "Bush" is enough to get some head to detonate spectacularly.
Well, I was hoping not; I happen to like you and I didn't want to have to hurt you. :-)
Really? Isn't EDH from Texas originally?
Well isn't that halarious then I was typing that reply with you in mind as well.
You voted independent? You voided your vote. Sorry.
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