I wasn't satisfied with his talk about getting tough on employers. He didn't talk about punishing them, he talked about making it easier for them to verify legality.
It seems that the President has no desire to send any of the illegal aliens home who have illegally lived here for a while, illegally purchased homes, illegally held an illegal job for a period of time, etc. The fundamental disagreement that I have with him is that he has no desire to make that 12 million (or higher, depending upon the source) number go down at all. He's not talking about punishing lawbreakers, but rewarding them. That's where I disagreed with his speech. Rewarding lawbreakers is not a Republican or conservative value. I don't know how I could be expected to accept it.
Which means that Bush can lobby the Senate all he wants for the compromis(ing) immigration bill, but the GOP House will hold unless a few RINOs peel off and join the Dems.
And if Bush is relying on Dems and a few RINO turncoats to get his immigration agenda passed, that, if anything, should reveal that he is on the wrong side of the issue here.