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Bush scolds balking GOP
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Posted on 06/02/2007 2:52:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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To: RFEngineer

I also don’t know about DeMint, but wouldn’t it be so sweet to have sellout Lindsey Graham put to shame by someone (DeMint) more popular from within his own State?


141 posted on 06/02/2007 6:26:35 AM PDT by So Circumstanced
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To: Sub-Driver

They just don’t get it, do they? Bush could have saved his legacy by just paying attention to the rank-and-file.


142 posted on 06/02/2007 6:26:42 AM PDT by Saundra Duffy (Mitt Romney for President !!!)
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To: corkoman
"lower the temperature and get people to talk about basic principles."

Here are three very basic principles:

1-United States sovereignty

2-American citizen's Constitutional rights come ahead of the "rights" of illegal aliens

3-The obligation of the executive branch to enforce the laws of the land

143 posted on 06/02/2007 6:30:27 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: USMCVet
Seal the borders, enforce the existing laws! Then we'll talk,

See my tagline.
144 posted on 06/02/2007 6:31:25 AM PDT by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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Unlike Jorge, some of these Senators wish to be elected again.

Unlike Jorge, some of the Senators care about the best interest of the American people. We'll have to see just how many that is. The ones who side with the criminals against the American people should be voted out.

145 posted on 06/02/2007 6:31:26 AM PDT by SUSSA
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To: R.W.Ratikal

“What his motive could possibly be is beyond me.”

A One World Government is not possible with a vibrant and strong United States of America. Destroy or cripple America’s economy, middle class and culture and then you can implement a world government scheme.


146 posted on 06/02/2007 6:32:39 AM PDT by Hornet19 (Conservative since birth, Republican no more.)
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To: ovrtaxt

Dane? Probably still in southern Arizona, handing out maps and bottled water to our nation’s new immigrants.


147 posted on 06/02/2007 6:32:44 AM PDT by LiveFree99
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To: texas_mrs
The sad part is this: if they really do get Aztlan back, in two decades it will an outgrowth of Mexico -- filled with slums, corruption, crime, poverty, etc..

Those who assimilate into American culture tend to prosper.

Those who create their own little ghettos and slum cities and separate entities end up in a microcosm of the country they left to come to America.

148 posted on 06/02/2007 6:33:22 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: browardchad

You are right—they want this so bad and are so intellectually dishonest that they think by repeating “it’s not amnesty” it will become so.

If it walks like a duck, yada yada......

Every dime I would have given to the RNC will be going to the Heritage Foundation. I won’t switch voter identification because of our closed primaries. But for a former supporter of Bush such as myself, this is the straw that has broken the proverbial camel’s back.

Keep up the good work, folks....hopefully the Senators that want to keep their jobs will see the light. Of course, enforcement measures won’t increase for the next year and a half, but hopefully we can get good conservatives in 2008 and fix this problem once and for all!


149 posted on 06/02/2007 6:34:58 AM PDT by GatorGirl (Calling illegals "undocumented workers" is like calling drug dealers "unlicensed pharmacists".)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Nice post. Simply exquisite.


150 posted on 06/02/2007 6:35:10 AM PDT by So Circumstanced
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To: Malesherbes
I’ve faxed both my Republican Senators but have received no replies yet - of course, they are awfully busy, and their staffs are occupied too dealing with angry constituents like me.

Go to Project Vote Smart and find the link to your Senator Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX) and find the "Contact" page

Then, send links to an FR thread like this one

Bush scolds balking GOP

or this one

BUSH CHIDES FELLOW REPUBS FOR OPPOSING HIS FLAKEY AMNESTY DEAL

Finish with this one

RNC Fires Phone Solicitors [former donors outraged over amnesty]

Tell them to take a look at the comments here about illegal immigration. They WILL get the message. .

151 posted on 06/02/2007 6:36:58 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Guns don't kill people. None of my guns ever left the house at night and killed anyone.)
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To: corkoman

Tony Snow is wasted tallent on this issue.

He is trying to sell a “four element” periodic table to a scientific world.

“lower the temperature” is just code for agree to amnesty.

NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

Look at Greece which has had TWO, YES TWO amnesties within the last five years. BOTH have been disasters.

Immigration is always a failure.

Yet this time tony snow expects a different result.


152 posted on 06/02/2007 6:37:32 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Sub-Driver

Bush is a free-trading globalist who thinks that if you can get a worker in another country to do the work for a dime less than the American worker, it’s a good thing. He only hears from the people who have access to him, like the Chamber of Commerce, who tell him how wonderful cheap illegal labor is, and how it is driving the economy.

He doesn’t see the other side of it like we do, because he lives in a mansion on Pennsylvania Avenue. He doesn’t have to wait in line at the emergency room in the hospital with a broken arm, because 5 families without health insurance are getting treated for the flu. He doesn’t see cities turned into crime-ridden dumps. He doesn’t see the trash in the streets, as the poor illegals just dump it on the curb. His school taxes aren’t skyrocketing.

What he fails to appreciate, what the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t tell him, is that illegals are a net drain on society. Businesses are able to operate more profitably due to cheap labor. We benefit from that in some ways. Cheaper prices, higher stock prices. But there is no way that those benefits equal the negatives. I believe the Heritage Foundation calculated each illegal costs the taxpayer $20,000 per year. I would rather pay a dollar more services and commodities if they were done by legal Americans, rather than paying three dollars more in taxes to support the illegals.


153 posted on 06/02/2007 6:42:27 AM PDT by Big E
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To: RFEngineer
"This is shaping up to be a single-issue election."

That's why I said this should be an election year issue. Iraq is getting quieter. Al Queda's attacks have made every one mad at them over there. That's why a lot of people died. It always happens that way.

154 posted on 06/02/2007 6:42:50 AM PDT by BobS
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To: Iwo Jima
I disagree with your order of priorities. Priority #1 should be the eradication of any notion that is is perfectly acceptable to kill of 1-1.5 million of our own unborn children every year.

A country that kills off a million of its own people and then allows a million illegal aliens to swarm across its borders doesn't need "immigration reform" -- it needs a freaking full-blown psychiatric evaluation.

155 posted on 06/02/2007 6:43:16 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I'm out on the outskirts of nowhere . . . with ghosts on my trail, chasing me there.)
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To: Kozak
SECURE THE BORDER PUNISH EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGALS NO AMNESTY

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I'm going to send that to the White House. Thanks. When I called my two Dem senator offices, each of their staff didn't even sound like they were really taking down any of my message. One put me on hold three times. The other didn't ask for any info, just wanted to end the phone call.

156 posted on 06/02/2007 6:43:41 AM PDT by proud2beconservativeinNJ ("In God We Trust")
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To: Sub-Driver
Tony Snow said the administration was trying to "lower the temperature and get people to talk about basic principles."

OK, Tony. Here's a basic principle your Administration is outright lying about, which is why the temperature is so high...

NO AMNESTY!

Now, that wasn't difficult, was it?

157 posted on 06/02/2007 6:45:30 AM PDT by Gritty (In this bill going from illegal to legal happens first, instantly, and irreversibly-Mark Steyn)
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To: Joe Boucher

Ditto. 18 months can’t pass quickly enough.


158 posted on 06/02/2007 6:46:29 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: Deo et Patria
According to your rationale, that would have made Reagan the worst, right?

And how did Reagan view his choice from the 20/20 perspective of hindsight?

159 posted on 06/02/2007 6:47:23 AM PDT by the808bass
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To: texas_mrs

Sadly it doesn’t take a map to know we’ve practically lost Texas to them. Their sense of entitlement and ownership is frightening. Bush likes to portray himself as a Texan, but true Texans are mad as hell over this invasion.


160 posted on 06/02/2007 6:47:44 AM PDT by McLynnan
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