Posted on 09/04/2006 5:48:05 PM PDT by RobFromGa
Edited on 09/05/2006 1:53:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 — As they prepare for a critical pre-election legislative stretch, Congressional Republican leaders have all but abandoned a broad overhaul of immigration laws and instead will concentrate on national security issues they believe play to their political strength.
With Congress reconvening Tuesday after an August break, Republicans in the House and Senate say they will focus on Pentagon and domestic security spending bills, port security legislation and measures that would authorize the administration’s terror surveillance program and create military tribunals to try terror suspects.
“We Republicans believe that we have no choice in the war against terror and the only way to do it is to continue to take them head-on whether it is in Iraq or elsewhere,” said Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio, the majority leader.
Republicans have appointed 7 of the 9 Supreme Court justices.
It wasn't bad and was far superior to the open border, amnesty-lite bill the senate passed.
It was too broad though. It just needs to cover building border length wall (definite construction timetable) and requiring the criminal prosecution of employers of illegals.
When a bill gets too broad then it is easy to demonize and mischaracterize. There is no way the senate nor the president could reject such a bill without destroying all of what credibility they have left.
Not protecting our borders, while having a war on terror, borders on treason already. They won't have to fabricate anything. He took an oath to protect the citizens of the US and our borders.
We live in an area with a lot of hispanics, and I don't know of any that vote republican.
Of course they don't - the only large block of republican voting hispanics are the cubans in SE Florida.
Now hispanics do tend to vote for Bush a bit, especially in Texas, but that is because he promises and delivers to them an open border. If that is the only way to get their vote then it is good for the country or the party longterm?
It cracks me up when party loyalists try to advocate the Mexicans will vote conservative do to family values and an anti-abortion stance. lol
Exactly. The ones we know are catholic, but they despise President Bush.
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