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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Who’d a thunk it? George Bush saves us from attacks by al Qaeda just to expose us to the Mexican invasion.
His job. It is time to impeach this arrogant fool.
Just goes to show what his MBA is worth.
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.
No, you say that if you want to be honest with them.
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
Boy there is some serious denial goin on here.
If he had a real opponent in 2000 and not McLame, he would have been toast.
“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?
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.
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.
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.
Mexicans have pictures from a “lost weekend” Bush took during the 1970’s.
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.
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.
Kind of like many dissing the ‘traditional conservative base’,,,,,by supporting a LIBERAL, like Guiliani, for President. I, too, am about to give up.
WOW! Post of the day. Perfect response.
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.
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