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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: Anti-Bubba182
Pres Bush has already put more effort into this amnesty bill--then he did with his 'social security partial privatization'.

How sad.

41 posted on 05/29/2007 10:12:49 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: montag813; sinkspur
Back in 2000 I was very cynical about politics, I'd just came from an area that was a major 'port of entry' for South American products. Wink wink. (see Dark Alliance by Gary Webb)

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.

42 posted on 05/29/2007 10:15:39 PM PDT by investigateworld ( Abortion stops a beating heart.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I am so mexicaned and Bushed out.


43 posted on 05/29/2007 10:20:36 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I will not make that mistake again.Bush is selling out the middle class.I remain respectful but not by much.


44 posted on 05/29/2007 10:24:54 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I fear, at least on domestic issues, George W. Bush is republican for Jimmy Carter.


45 posted on 05/29/2007 10:28:14 PM PDT by Maynerd
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To: 3AngelaD
They’ve been trying to breed a feral populace since The New Deal, and speak to us as if their plan has worked perfectly. If we don’t agree with their idiocies, we’re either “racist” or alarmist.
46 posted on 05/29/2007 10:29:00 PM PDT by ashtanga
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To: Anti-Bubba182

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’.


47 posted on 05/29/2007 10:41:51 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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To: EagleUSA

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.


48 posted on 05/29/2007 10:48:25 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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To: ConservativeMind

No more Bushes. No more Clintons.


49 posted on 05/29/2007 10:51:36 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

>> This is pretty bad, but what does Bush have to lose anymore? <<

His immortal soul?

Bush to America: “Choke on it, b!+ch!!!”


50 posted on 05/29/2007 10:52:08 PM PDT by dangus
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To: teawithmisswilliams

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.


51 posted on 05/29/2007 10:58:38 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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To: 353FMG
The guy knows nothing about finances so he's listening to advisors who could care less about Americans. He is cursed with blind loyalty to people we'd probably dislike if we met them.

We are paying for his blnd loyalty with our country.

52 posted on 05/29/2007 11:09:14 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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Hey guys............His title is "President Bush", and he's looking for realistic options. If you're not part of the solution..........


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.

53 posted on 05/29/2007 11:13:19 PM PDT by TheBridge
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To: Anti-Bubba182
We're NOT giving up. He knows its an amnesty bill. Changing the rhetoric won't change the substance of a disastrous bill that needs to be defeated.

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

54 posted on 05/29/2007 11:14:42 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

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.


55 posted on 05/29/2007 11:15:05 PM PDT by guitfiddlist (When the 'Rats break out switchblades, it's no time to invoke Robert's Rules.)
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To: TheBridge

There are plenty of solutions that don’t give the country away. Solution 1: Don’t give the country away.


56 posted on 05/29/2007 11:17:22 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Oh criminy. What HAS he been SMOKING!!??


57 posted on 05/29/2007 11:19:06 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Thank GOODNESS there can be no third term.)
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To: guitfiddlist

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.


58 posted on 05/29/2007 11:21:11 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Who’s smoking what?


59 posted on 05/29/2007 11:23:16 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Terri's Legacy List Contact: 8mmmauser & REMEMBER TERRI IN CAMPAIGN 2008)
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To: guitfiddlist
To me, the GOP candidate who expresses this the best, with the best team, and the deepest pockets, WINS THE 2008 PRIMARY CONTEST!

60 posted on 05/29/2007 11:26:23 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I propose amending the "Pray For Bush" FR link into "Pray For Bush To Grow A Brain". Muchas Gracias.)
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