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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What I asked.
Check the tagline.
That quote is in direct opposition to the one in which he said the border patrol shouldn’t be chasing those “who do the work that Americans don’t do”.
They just lie and lie and lie. They have no intention of EVER enforcing the border.
We did it anyway.
We can do anything we put our mind to. We are Americans--including legal residents who came the fair way (at least all of us minus the 20 million national intruders).
I wonder if this last election 2006 may have been thrown to the Democrats as a way to get more congressional votes for these kinds of bills?
I am still angry over the 2006 election and the non support many Republican candidates got in the way of good news.
And if you want to fool the American people, what you say is the bill's not an amnesty bill. That's dishonest political rhetoric, trying to fool our citizens.
I tend to trust reports that Clinton was involved in CIA drug running though Mena, Arkansas, such as at The Mena, Arkansas Airport and The Activities at Mena. I'd be surprised if these reports were entirely truthful, but I suspect they have quite a bit of truth.
If this happened, then no doubt Clinton was involved, as a corrupt governor of Arkansas, and no doubt Bush 41 and 43 know, both being Presidents and one a former head of the CIA. Odds are that Bush 41 either has some culpability, or else at least is vulnerable to being framed -- take your pick.
And there is little doubt in my mind that drug dealers are major players in Mexico. The drug business certainly has not gotten smaller or been cleaned up over the last few decades. One of the conspiracy web pages I just read (sorry, lost the link now) stated that this drug business has in part moved from Mena to Mexico -- that sounds credible to me.
This tells me that the Mexican Drug Lords have some power over Bush. Not absolute power, nor Manchurian Candidate control. But some power nonetheless.
Certainly it is in the best interests of the Drug Lords in Mexico to send their poor here, to work or to suck off the social welfare tit, and either way (or both) to send money home. They have neither jobs nor services for them down there, and would certainly rather have their poor marching in the streets of Los Angeles than in the streets of Mexico City.
Mexico is a failing state. Well, some would say that America is too. But we've got longer to go.
Sadly, in hindsight, I’m second guessing a lot of my thoughts on Bush as well... I remember, when Bush used to do dumb, unconstitutional things (like Campaign Finance), people would jump up and say “Oh, this is actually SMART, cuz Bush is using reverse psychology cuz he knows secretly bla bla bla...”
I have a very bad feeling about what he might end up doing in an attempt to secure a legacy for himself. And I’m definitely not looking forward to my liberal friends’ “I told you so’s” if it comes to that.
“They just lie and lie and lie. They have no intention of EVER enforcing the border.”
Worse yet, they will try, convict, and imprison border agents who actually try to do so. :(
Bush is about to create 10 million plus new Democrats in this country.
This could burst the Republican party at the seams. I don’t know what the hell to think anymore. I can usually see the moral justification in Bush’s decisions, but this is something different. This reeks of financial interests.
When Mr. Bush loses the people at Free Republic,he has hit bottom. We have stood by him through a lot of mistakes.
This is one mistake I cannot stand by him on.
This country doesnt need 12 to 25 million new residents who have no desire to become Americans.
Waist deep in the Big Muddy; the Big Fool says to “Push On”.
With the rats owning the House and the Senate, with both leads controlled by raving, frothing, treasonous moonbats?
President Bush stands a very good chance of being impeached.
Not for this, just for breathing. The rats are just salivating for the chance, and President Bush signing a travesty of a bill like this would cause his own party to collapse, possibly causing it to split.
The rats would move on this and be all over it the second they felt the poll numbers reflected the right mood.
They would do it, too.
Anyone with the persistence or obsession to bother searching my very public posts at Free Republic knows I was a reluctant supporter of President Bush when he first ran, became enthused after 9-11, and have shaken my head in disappointment after the 2004 elections.
This Administration has become a Clown Car performance, writ large.
I just wish they all would go away now.
Just FWIW, he delivered this insulting diatribe in my home town. Before a captive audience of paid employees, just like Clinton used to.
Shills.
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Each day’s freedom must be earned anew, or it will wither and die...we must not tire or falter, but awake from our slumber and fight the forces arrayed against us.
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As Thomas Paine stated in common sense:
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: ‘tis dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated.
Does this moron think we are a nation of 4 year olds? Frightened??? We’re pissed off!!!!
Bump
As the fight over "comprehensive immigration reform" continues or if passes, The President's support for anything else will drop to the point, that he can no longer control foreign policy and the war.
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