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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How sad.
We had sergeants in the Narcotics division buying multi-million dollar homes in the Hollywood crowd resort in Lake Arrowhead. What an era aye?
In the course and scope of my employment, I dealt with a number of homicides that flat out just dead ended, the victims were always clean cut, high caste Nicaraguans. Always a bullet in the back of the head, no signs of needless brutality, i.e. the wrists were bound, but not to the extend of causing pain ~ bleeding. Professional hits, but without the brutality to send a message.
Now everyone in the biz knew what was happening re: Mena Airport, I'm not sure that the California operation was even connected. I would think they compartmentalized the ops, just common sense.
Of course, the Riverside DEA office was about as helpful and teats on a boar hog....
I became very cynical, till my wee Irish mom reminded me that abortion is murder of an innocent child. So I pinched my nose and stuck my toes in, doing canvassing for Republican congressmen.
Meet some very interesting people by the way. Somewhere along the way, a buddy sent me a copy of "Compromised, Bush Clinton Cocaine by Terry Reed. I've attempted to speak with Reed, but he doesn't respond to the letters I've sent.
But his book has given me a better understanding of the big picture back then.
But no one, and I mean no one, will speak with attribution. Of course, we'll never know what was totally going on, there is no statue of limitation for murder.
So at this point, I believe our 'leadership' has been taken over by a cabal that passes the POTUS job back and forth, like a bong at a doper party.
And I would gladly give up my pension with it's lifetime paid medical just to go back in time for a few hours.
I am so mexicaned and Bushed out.
I will not make that mistake again.Bush is selling out the middle class.I remain respectful but not by much.
I fear, at least on domestic issues, George W. Bush is republican for Jimmy Carter.
It’s the United States of America but he never says “United States”. Bush has much to gain - we have everything to lose. Who knows how many treaties or business deals he’s made that we know nothing about? I’m just sayin’.
Conservatives were used for the 2004 campaign. Unless you are in their elite group, we are only good at election time. Maybe they are trying to destroy the Republican Party because it’s working.
No more Bushes. No more Clintons.
>> This is pretty bad, but what does Bush have to lose anymore? <<
His immortal soul?
Bush to America: “Choke on it, b!+ch!!!”
If someone is still doing a day in the life of pres bush photo thread, it is likely full of photos of him making stuff up in the Rose Garden. Now, the American taxpayer-citizen-voter is being admonished for caring more about the Constitution and our sovereignty than he does. I don’t appreciate being called the opposition.
We are paying for his blnd loyalty with our country.
There's never going to be a wall, or should never be a wall. There's never going to be "mass deportation". So, unless someone has better options than the President, you might as well clam it.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Man, Bush is always a tough-talking fighter - when it comes to trashing his own team. But he has nothing but kissy-face rhetoric for the likes of Putin, the Clintons, Kennedy and anybody else on the Left that kicks him in the face after he smooches up to them.
Either the man is very, very diabolical - working to implement some undemocratic Globalist Master Plan that we useful Republican plebes are not to ask about, or he’s a complete sentimentalist idiot.
There are plenty of solutions that don’t give the country away. Solution 1: Don’t give the country away.
Oh criminy. What HAS he been SMOKING!!??
and I think Jeb knew this was all going to occur which is why he left politics. There’s a strong probability that Jeb has lots of corporate interests in Latin America that may ride on how this deal turns out. Jeb figures into this somehow too imo.
Who’s smoking what?
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