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Bush Takes On Opponents of Immigration Deal (On Drudge)
NY Times ^ | May 29, 2007 | JIM RUTENBERG

Posted on 05/29/2007 9:02:04 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182

GLYNCO, Ga., May 29 — President Bush today accused opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat it in Congress, and took on his own conservative political base as he did so.

“If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill,” Mr. Bush said this afternoon at a training center for border enforcement agents located in this town in Georgia’s southeastern corner. “That’s empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our citizens.”

The president used some of his toughest language yet as he began an effort to build support for the bill in the Senate. The measure hews closely to his long-sought goal of a new immigration system with three components: tighter seals on the nation’s borders, a guest-worker system for noncitizens who want to work here, and a path to citizenship for some 12 million illegal immigrants already in the country.

The bill, the product of a compromise struck by Republican and Democratic leaders two weeks ago, has encountered stiff resistance from the left and right. Liberal opposition taking aim at the proposal for shifting the system for awarding permanent residence status to give more weight to education and skills and less to family reunification, while conservatives have derided the plan for allowing illegal aliens to legalize their status.

It was the conservative opponents whom Mr. Bush seemed to address most forcefully in his remarks here today — a rare example of the president crossing swords with key members of the political coalition that helped him attain the Oval Office and then keep it four years later: The same conservative radio hosts, writers, bloggers, and legislators who killed an attempt at compromise immigration legislation last year............."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; bush; bushlegacy; corporateblackmail; freespeech; illegalimmigration
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To: EagleUSA
This is truly something that will live in history for a very long time.

I agree but do not think he understands how this will affect his legacy.

Shame be upon this effort and all of those malfeasants in Washington that are doing this to our country -— that USED TO BE a representative republic.

The part I find most despicable is that he is trying to ram this through again because we lost the House, which stopped him last time. He is trying to take advantage of our loss to really stick it to us.

We may be seeing the lowest approval rating for a President in this country's history if he succeeds.
21 posted on 05/29/2007 9:27:13 PM PDT by microgood
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Who’d a thunk it? George Bush saves us from attacks by al Qaeda just to expose us to the Mexican invasion.


22 posted on 05/29/2007 9:29:21 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: Anti-Bubba182
This is pretty bad, but what does Bush have to lose anymore?

His job. It is time to impeach this arrogant fool.

23 posted on 05/29/2007 9:29:25 PM PDT by montag813 (q)
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To: Anti-Bubba182
“That’s empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our citizens.”

Just goes to show what his MBA is worth.

24 posted on 05/29/2007 9:29:46 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

This idiocy has lost the war.

With things going as bad as they are, everyone in that vast majority who once supported the war is bailing out. The only ones left are the same loyal Americans who want to follow the laws and maintain our sovereignty.

It is this, Bush’s last constituency, which he is kicking in the teeth and slandering at every opportunity. You could not imagine a worse strategy for fighting a war that will only succeed with citizen support.

Karl Rove will get his brown-skinned followers. But their names will be Ahmed and Ali, not Juan and Jose.


25 posted on 05/29/2007 9:30:33 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: Anti-Bubba182
“If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill’s an amnesty bill,” Mr. Bush

No, you say that if you want to be honest with them.

26 posted on 05/29/2007 9:31:13 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Anti-Bubba182

folks say we all knew he was pro-illegals...well maybe but we never guessed he’d be willing to toss out the baby with the bathwater to turn us into a nation with a plurality of mostly Mexican illegals and their families just to prove how non-racist and compassionate he is

he coulda built Habitiat homes in the hood like brother Jimmy instead of tossing out my children’s birthright like last week’s gumbo

this is disastrous and only appeals to either idiots or folks with a hard-on for white christian males


27 posted on 05/29/2007 9:31:18 PM PDT by wardaddy (on parole)
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To: ThePythonicCow
My guess is that Bush is relying too much now on those working for him. The infamous Washington, D.C. bubble is closing in on him, isolating him more from reality. Bush is a little too much of a people person, and places too much trust in others. This makes for an excellent manager and executive. But if the force field of evil is too strong...

Boy there is some serious denial goin on here.

28 posted on 05/29/2007 9:32:21 PM PDT by montag813 (q)
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To: investigateworld
Come on, if Bush’s father had not have been President and head of the CIA before him, he would not be even a regional vice-president of the Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Company. Not even the used upright division.

If he had a real opponent in 2000 and not McLame, he would have been toast.

29 posted on 05/29/2007 9:33:56 PM PDT by montag813 (q)
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To: Eagles6

“He sees the blatant islamo threat..”

If he really sees the islamo threat, as you suggest, and still insists on having open borders, we have a loose cannon in the WH. Then there is something rotten on 1600 Penn Ave. Doesn’t the security of the US take precedence over anything else, even his desire for America’s globalization?


30 posted on 05/29/2007 9:34:33 PM PDT by 353FMG (Some say it's a melting pot, others liken it to a pressure cooker.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
President Bush has had a great interest in immigration issues from the day he took office. The first state visit for the Bush Presidency was by Presidente Fox - September 5 & 6, 2001. I recall the discussions about immigration being all the talk on TV and Radio. Check out the Joint Statement of the Presidents dated September 6, 2001: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010906-8.html. It has been a goal of Bush for many, many years and he was moving his agenda forward when 9/11/01 happened to change the course ...
31 posted on 05/29/2007 9:35:44 PM PDT by zeaal (SPREAD TRUTH!)
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To: BigFinn
We haven't forgotten this travesity of justice. Notice how it was neatly swept under the rug? Pardon them NOW.

Pardon him? Don't you see that Bush couldn't give two crap about them or what happens to them? He is content that his family buddy Sutton suppressed evidence and put these guys where they will not survive to the end of their sentence. He knows this very well. This is not "Christian". This is evil.

32 posted on 05/29/2007 9:36:21 PM PDT by montag813 (q)
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To: microgood

I agree but do not think he understands how this will affect his legacy.
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No he does not. But his legacy is the LAST THING OF IMPORTANCE in this matter. This country is what is important, not the legacy of an elitist President who cannot handle political realities around him. To hell with his selfish legacy.


33 posted on 05/29/2007 9:36:33 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: microgood
He is trying to take advantage of our loss to really stick it to us.

A loss which was his fault, because of his pussy war effort. The dope won't even kill Al Sadr, for pete's sake! MacArthur had hundreds of Japanese hung, and that was an easy occupation. He hung lowly Commie agitators. And Bush won't kill Al Sadr, the butcher of Americans? Even now? This man is beyond pathetic. He has no balls. And with this bill he shows he has no honor as well.

34 posted on 05/29/2007 9:40:52 PM PDT by montag813 (q)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Mexicans have pictures from a “lost weekend” Bush took during the 1970’s.


35 posted on 05/29/2007 9:46:14 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush in 2008; mark my words.)
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To: montag813

It’s been my tagline since early winter.

Bush has nobody left to defend him when the Impeachment inquiry begins.

I wonder if Cheney opposes this crap.


36 posted on 05/29/2007 9:50:10 PM PDT by Finalapproach29er (Dems will impeach Bush in 2008; mark my words.)
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To: tapatio
No, Mr. President.What scares the American people,is the thought of this bill passing!

Well said! Very true. I have been losing sleep and my health has suffered over this immigration bill. I made sent emails and made my calls to my Senators and the White House. I sent emails to all my friends and family telling them to call. I pray somehow this bill gets killed, now and forever. We need an impregnable wall.

37 posted on 05/29/2007 9:54:09 PM PDT by sand88 (q)
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To: Williams

Kind of like many dissing the ‘traditional conservative base’,,,,,by supporting a LIBERAL, like Guiliani, for President. I, too, am about to give up.


38 posted on 05/29/2007 9:55:13 PM PDT by stockstrader (We need a conservative candidate who will UNITE the Party, not a liberal one to DIVIDE it!)
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To: Mr. Mojo
No, you say that if you want to be honest with them.

WOW! Post of the day. Perfect response.

39 posted on 05/29/2007 10:00:59 PM PDT by sand88 (q)
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To: montag813
Well, I'm distinguishing between the following possibilities:

There is a leftist force field in our nations capital that overwhelms pretty much everyone who goes there, sooner or later. That's why Rush is keen to stay away from that town.

Decent men who have become pawns look really bad, if you figure that they are still in control and hold them responsible for the leftist tsunami overwhelming our great nation.

But I still hold them in higher regard, by far, than the pathological scum and Marxist ideologues.

Granted, they can be more dangerous. A Hillary on the ticket would encourage heavy voting from those who hate her. A Bush clone on the ticket would leave alot of us home or voting third party.

A leftist (tyrannical) take over requires a mix of immoral, ideological, and misguided men. The misguided serve as the useful idiots, and are as essential to the deadly (tyranny is really deadly) mix as cement and gravel are to making concrete.

Bush has become a useful idiot. I'll be glad to see him go, thankful for his good efforts, and fearful of the continuing onslaught of leftism that he did too little to slow, and that now seems to have overwhelmed his administration.

But Clinton, not Bush, should be on death row.

40 posted on 05/29/2007 10:08:05 PM PDT by ThePythonicCow (The Greens steal in fear of pollution, The Reds in fear of greed; Fear arising from a lack of Faith.)
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