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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
---Nothing in politics comes down to a single issue. And Foley's dumping most certainly did not.---
The gun control issue though was the deal breaker. Clinton knew it too, and never forgave the NRA.
I'm just saying this border issue is a real hot button. Just look at this thread! We haven't been beating up on one another like this for maybe a couple of weeks. :^)
Class is now in session. Tommy Thompson wanted to collect private medical information and place in in a national data bank. Tom Ridge pushing for gathering info on private citizens with no record of criminal behavior. BTW did you know that if you get pulled over the cop now knows about that 1980's speeding ticket even if you are 10 states away?
Next is the beloved new Attorney General whom many were begging to be a USSC Justice. This man says all your surfing information belongs to him. That's just off the top of my head. Me a DEM? Look here I didn't like such ideas under Clinton and I don't like them now any better.
If Sessions ran for POTUS I would gladly vote for him. I'm not against all GOP just the RINO's. My senator is the pathetic Senate Majority Leader a Hillary Care Shill from a long ways back.
I prefer your two TN senators and my two MS senators over my former two CA senators.
Frist and Lott both went weak when elected by their peers to Majority Leader.
I can say this much. Right now Hillary must be tickled over the Medicare reform. It was taken from her idea called Tenncare her, Al Gore and a DEM governor accomplished. Whayt most persons don't know is Frist despite wide spread corruption and a nearly bankrupt state budget kept going to HCFA for yearly waivers and funding. To be honest about it we have a DEM self proclaimed Liberal governor who is more conservative than him or Alexander. THe GOP will have trouble beating him the next time. After Sundquist-R anyone looks better.
I hope Ed Bryant gets Frist seat. I think he can defeat Harold Ford pretty easy. Fords have been in scandal in this state longer than most people know. It goes back to Ford SR and a bank failure in the early 1980's.
But some bootlickers will hang on no matter what.
---If you're going to sit home and not vote, why keep telling us about it?
Do you hope somebody will talk you out of it?---
I'm not sure what I'll do at this point. I have supported Bush up until this point. I did not say I was going to sit home. I said many were likely to, or vote 3rd party. Here in Montana enough people vote 3rd party to give us a Democrat legislature. It is a real problem. We've got Republicans that support Democrats against fellow Republicans as well, but that's another matter.
(Privatley, I think Bush has rocks in his head!)
I remember Ford SR heck I even remember Gore Sr being my senator. Ford JR isn't as arrogant as SR and his dad & uncle likely jump him for being too conservative LOL. No Fords for me.
Frist is not running again.
Thanks for the information.
I cannot recall Ford Sr.
There is NO comparison between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the America of today; NONE, no matter what you believe to be the case.
And your use of the word "gates", is patently ridiculous...which is why I made fun of it and you.
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It basically falls on James Sensenbrenner to save our country. May be have the strength to do it.
She was back in Park Ridge. Then she met the activist Reverend Don Jones and later Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals).......... and now look what we have.
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I posted this about Jones long ago.
And by the way, Hillary is the FREAK she is today for a few reasons, but a guy by the name of Rev. Don Jones is one major reason. He was the young "hip" youth minister at her First Methodist Church of Park Ridge (Illinois) who influenced her greatly.
From Gail Sheehy's book Hillary's Choice ---
Another important older man entered Hillary's life that same year (1961), when she was hovering between thirteen and fourteen on the cusp of adolescence. He was a tall, blond, blue-eyed man who wore a crew cut and white bucks and tooled around town in a bright red Impala convertible. He was young and all the girls thought he was good looking. But Don Jones was also a true intellectual- Hillary's type. Twenty-six and fresh from divinity school at Drew University across the Hudson River from New York City, he succeeded three youth ministers who had been safe and traditional. Jones represented a radical change for the sleepy First Methodist Church of Park Ridge.
"New ideas were frowned upon in our community," says Patsy Henderson Bowles. "We hadn't been exposed to diversity. Don wanted us to think about where other people were coming from and to understand their problems."
Jones was the only alternative reality in town. On Sunday evenings in September of 1961, he would offer Hillary's church youth his version of the "University of Life" program. He had been outside the sterile world of suburbia and could offer a window onto the more exotic worlds of abstract art. Beat poetry, existentialism, and the rumblings of radical political thought and counterculture politics that were eventually to explode under the smug slumber of even the good gray burghers of Park Ridge."
If you haven't yet read 'Hillary's Choice', it's very helpful in understanding from where Hillary is coming.
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