Posted on 06/02/2007 2:52:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bush scolds balking GOP
By Stephen Dinan and Ralph Z. Hallow THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published June 2, 2007
President Bush yesterday renewed his attack on Republicans who oppose his immigration bill, again charging that they are trying to "frighten people" and calling on supporters to rally around the compromise.
The president pleaded with senators to "show courage and resolve" to withstand outrage from voters in their districts.
"It is right to argue for what you believe and recognize that compromise might be necessary to move the bill along. And it is right to take political risk for members of the United States Congress," Mr. Bush said in his second impassioned plea this week on the issue and the second time that he has accused Republicans of trying to scare voters by labeling provisions in the bill an "amnesty."
But many Republican senators say the bill is both an amnesty and unworkable and argue that Mr. Bush's barbs are off the mark.
"I'm not going around frightening people. People are frightened, and they're trying to scare the politicians into voting the way they want them to," said Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, whose opposition to the bill has earned him standing ovations at speeches and events back home during the past week.
Mr. Bush's challenge followed a speech in Georgia on Tuesday that infuriated Republican opponents of his bill. And the renewed challenge came just a day after White House press secretary Tony Snow said the administration was trying to "lower the temperature and get people to talk about basic principles."
The fight is taking a serious toll on Republicans. The Washington Times reported yesterday that small donations to the Republican National Committee have dropped by an estimated 40 percent
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nativist, xenophobic/xenophobes [Press Secretary Tony Snow, et al]
bigots [Senator Lindsey Graham]
vigilantes [President George W Bush]
This is what the Washington globalist elites call those in fly-over country who want to preserve the sovereignty of the nation
They stopped wasting stamps on me long ago.
Hit em hard!
We need a president who owes allegiance to nothing other than the United States and its people. In particular, the GOP needs to convince the world that it is not part of some stupid globalist conspiracy and that says no more CFR members or members of any other secret or quasi-secret societiesfor president.
It depends on who wins, after all they get to write the history.
Although I tend to think either way he loses now. We win and preserve the integrity of the nation and he will always be footnoted as the man who attempted to give it all away.
If we lose and reconquista happens, he will be still be the villian.
Its almost fitting, he's thrown us over for a horde that has no intent of being American or preserving our way of life, they will toss out his actions / legacy like an old fish wrapper.
You just have to wonder whats going on in his head.
How about Jim DeMint for President 2008?
Venting helps a little, and here is my vent. Bush is destroying the Republican Party. He has not only driven away the “Reagan Democrats” but he has now turned on his hardcore case (of which I have been one.) I have never been a “neo;” I’m a paleo-conservative and really have no place to go. I’ll probably just sit on my hands and watch the sunset.
Ok, when RR signed amnesty in 86, the borders were to be closed and thats why he went along with it.In addition the numbers were 3 million people.We have seen that the part about sealing the borders was never carried out and now we have 12 to 20 million here illeagally.We now see the track record of these politicos and we will not stand for this non-sense again. We all need to call for Horge Arbusto to be impeached.Period.
Then add...
Signing CFR after noting it was likely unConstitutional (what was that oath you took, sir?)
FAILING TO ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS!!!
huge expansion of the federal budget
frittering away 6 years with all 3 Houses (what did they do with it???)
Sorry, sir... I thought you would be so much more when I fought for you. You've been great for foreign folks, though... and in most cases, we're happy about that... but domestically, you've left us wanting. =^(
Lack of border control includes drug shipments. Drugs and illegals are actually the same thing. W apparently supports both.
Esto es muy malo el Presidente.
5.56mm
We thought Bush would be the next Reagan, instead he’s the second coming of Carter. Is Bush’s Presidential Library going up in Mexico? It would be fitting as he’s so helpful to the Mexicans.
This bill is larger than the Holy Bible and the senators themselves haven't read all of the fine print within it.
Any bill worth passing is worth reading in its entirety and subject to public debate BEFORE PASSAGE!
They all know it stinks and they are trying to ram it down our throats in the dead of night.
It's a turd they want American citizens to eat.
If they don't build that barrier there are things we can do. Like my dad did to the German Army in WW2. Gather up a bunch of wild dogs and beat them up until they were very mean and nasty and release them on the enemy. Do that on the border. That scared an organized military once or twice. That can work again right now.
I've moved from California to Texas and it's worse here! We must remember, however, that the job they do that American's won't is deface, mar and disgrace every flat surface with their chicano graffiti and make high school hell for all the other children. When they drop out they join their other compadres in the gang banger fashion of robbing and killing others for drugs/cash and whatever else has not been given to them by the free handouts. The blight of their non-assimilation makes larger and larger portions of cities look more like what I remember tijuana looking like years ago where they just throw the trash out the window and allow it to pile up. Living 5-6 families to a house with a load of kids which are only brought into the world to keep the mother on welfare.
Mr Bush has sent us on a downward spiral into third world nation status that we can never repair.
And, if someone wants to come along here and call me a racist, don't bother. I've had and still have friends who are decent Mexican-Americans who work and live their lives honestly as we all expect our fellow citizens to do. I am, however, mad as hell that my country is being thrown to the drug dealers and law breakers and giving them a free ride with my tax dollars that I have worked and paid for many years hoping my children and grandchildren would be able to experience life as I did during the best years this country had. HAD!! Not has or will have. And, yes I'm mad as hell about it.
Did anyone not pay attention pre Sept 11th 2001? Bush was falling all over himself to work with then mexican president Vicente Fox over U.S. border/immigration issues, he was prepared to give him the whole enchilada when he hit a snag when the WTC was destroyed. The clown vicente was flying all over the USA acting as if he himself was POTUS. On reflection, maybe he was working for Bush to soften up the American people.
Your #39 is a classic and says it all!
What, diluting the country with 100 million lawbreaking illegals hurts society? =)
The chain immigration aspect multiplies the offense. 12-20 million illegals x 5-10 family members = 60-200 million people.
Sorry, I couldn't resist. So far as I'm concerned, he can pack his bags and head back to Kennebunkport Texas. Blackbird.
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