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Bush’s Push on Immigration Tests His Base (FR Mentioned)
NY Times ^ | June 3, 2007 | JIM RUTENBERG and CARL HULSE

Posted on 06/02/2007 10:22:51 AM PDT by nj26

President Bush’s advocacy of an immigration overhaul and his attacks on critics of the plan are provoking an unusually intense backlash from conservatives who form the bulwark of his remaining support, splintering his base and laying bare divisions within a party whose unity has been the envy of Democrats.

It has pitted some of Mr. Bush’s most stalwart Congressional and grass-roots backers against him, sparking a vitriol that has at times exceeded anything seen yet between Mr. Bush and his supporters, who have generally stood with him through the toughest patches of his presidency. Those supporters now view him as pursuing amnesty for foreign law breakers when he should be focusing on border security.

Postings on conservative Web sites this week have gone so far as to call for Mr. Bush’s impeachment, and usually friendly radio hosts, commentators and Congressional allies are warning that he stands to lose supporters — a potentially damaging development, they say, when he needs all the backing he can get on other vital matters like the war in Iraq.

“I think President Bush hurts himself every time he says it is not amnesty,” said Senator Tom Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma, referring to the bill’s legalization process for immigrants. “We are not all that stupid.”

This week, in discussing Mr. Bush’s recent comments accusing conservative critics of the immigration legislation of fear-mongering, Rush Limbaugh told listeners: “I just wish he hadn’t done it because he’s not going to lose me on Iraq, and he’s not going to lose me on national security. But he might lose some of you.”

Such sentiments have reverberated through talk radio, conservative publications like National Review and Fox News. They have also appeared on Web sites including RedState.com and FreeRepublic.com...

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Free Republic; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; benedictarnold; borders; deathofthegop; enemedia; freerepublic; illegalaliens; illegalimmigration; illegals; immigration; jimmycarter2; liberalmedia; mediabias; sellout; trysellingthetruth
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To: nj26
If the White House, Congress, Senate, etc. want Mexicans so bad, then lets relocate Washington DC to Mexico. Oh wait, isn’t that essentially what we are doing? It appears we are moving from the United States of America to the Mexican Republic of North America! This Amnesty Bill for Illegals has got to be one of the most detrimental bills ever proposed. This is destroying the US culture, what we believe in, our security; a complete sell out of the American people.

A simple constitutional lesson and reminder for the White House and all of America. As US Citizens, it is our right, and our obligation, afforded to us by the Constitution of the United States, to reform, change, replace, and/or eliminate a government that does not effectively represent and protect the needs and desires of the American people.

Enforce the border, enforce the law, protect America!

261 posted on 06/03/2007 6:52:05 AM PDT by VenJac
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To: ishabibble

“DON’T TYPE. CALL THE WHITE HOUSE. CALL YOUR CONGRESSCRITTER. DO NOT FADE AWAY.”

Bump that!


262 posted on 06/03/2007 6:59:16 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: nj26
Thank you, Jeb Bush, for getting behind this bill. Now we can truly bury any possibility of another Bush running for the White House.

Goodbye, Jeb!

263 posted on 06/03/2007 7:05:07 AM PDT by RavenATB
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To: rurgan

Bump to your post. I like the way you think!


264 posted on 06/03/2007 7:16:51 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul. WWPD (what would Patton do))
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To: Merlinator

sheesh, hit your softspot huh?


265 posted on 06/03/2007 7:21:22 AM PDT by sheana
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To: ex-Texan
Savage may lead the mob that will surely march demanding further action against the president later.

I wish someone would, and it should be marching against the entire government in D.C., not just the president, they are all selling us down the river...we need to march against what they are doing to our country and constitution...and soon.

266 posted on 06/03/2007 7:21:24 AM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul. WWPD (what would Patton do))
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To: Mo1

Out shilling again Mol?


267 posted on 06/03/2007 7:22:57 AM PDT by sheana
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To: Ranger Drew

You might not be completely right but, you could be damn close.


268 posted on 06/03/2007 7:23:41 AM PDT by wolfcreek (AMNESTY: See what BROWN can do for you..)
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To: nj26
It has pitted some of Mr. Bush’s most stalwart Congressional and grass-roots backers against him

Pitted? No. Turned? YES!

I've had enough of George "Sell-out" Bush. If you can find reason to impeach the traitor, go for it!

269 posted on 06/03/2007 7:24:50 AM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
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To: sheana

Nope .. just stating a fact


270 posted on 06/03/2007 7:29:14 AM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: Mo1

Did you go to the George Bush School of Malignment? That seems to be the modus operandi now if someone doesn’t agree with you.
Great way to win friends and supporters, by the way.


271 posted on 06/03/2007 7:33:57 AM PDT by sheana
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To: nj26
Sorry to say but I have a Moore/Sheehan type of Moonbat in my immediate family. We hardly agree on anything at all. This is one issue we do agree on. We both want the border secured and immigration cut way back. The so called leaders of BOTH parties better pay attention to just how many Americans dont like this bill.
272 posted on 06/03/2007 7:41:54 AM PDT by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: philman_36

Reading every post in a thread. Watch for the clue phrase “When I....”, or, look at their name!


273 posted on 06/03/2007 7:44:54 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: sheana
Great way to win friends and supporters, by the way.

Hmmmmm ... Was I trying to win you over to be my friend??

I don't think so

274 posted on 06/03/2007 7:46:10 AM PDT by Mo1 ( http://www.gohunter08.com)
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To: muawiyah
Watch for the clue phrase “When I....”, or, look at their name!
Okay. I can't believe they use their real name!
I'll have to be more watchful.
275 posted on 06/03/2007 7:48:05 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: nj26

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276 posted on 06/03/2007 7:49:17 AM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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To: RavenATB
Thank you, Jeb Bush, for getting behind this bill. Now we can truly bury any possibility of another Bush running for the White House.

I don't believe that's a concern...It's a win/win for the globalists...

It will take Divine Intervention to get Hunter, Paul or Tancredo in the top spot to face the Democrats...Anyone else on the ticket (including Thompson) is tied in with the Council on Foreign Relations...

Daddy Bush had to lose his second term so Clinton could strong arm the Democrats on Nafta...Little George came in tied the knot with China to the WTO...

We'll need a Democrat leader to finish opening the borders fully...Beyond that, it's the New World Order...

Bush isn't concerned about the Presidency...He and Jeb have bigger fish to fry...

This has been going on for decades...And there's been people to warn us...Buchanan, Perot, Ron Paul, and many others...

They didn't get traction because 'but the money's so good crowd'...The greedy SOBs from the large corporations to the small businesspeople who love that easy buck from unfair trade with China and cheap labor from Mexico are some of the culprits...

Got news for ya...A lot of you are going down the tube with the rest of us...

277 posted on 06/03/2007 7:54:01 AM PDT by Iscool (OK, I'm Back...Now what were your other two wishes???)
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To: Mo1

I was talking about your hero George Bush.
I have plenty of friends, thanks.


278 posted on 06/03/2007 8:11:07 AM PDT by sheana
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To: nj26

“divisions within a party whose unity has been the envy of
Democrats”.
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I couldn’t get any further than this, one of the funniest lines I have ever read.I don’t think “unity” and “envy” are the correct words here. I think Democrats have been silently appreciative of just how far they’ve been able to nudge the RINOs in their direction; I think Democrats have been privately amazed at how much George Bush is ALREADY the ideal Democrat, while, just for the sake of
partisan role-playing they STILL have to pretend there’s so much about him that has to be challenged and undermined.
It’s the Democrats who have always had the unity: at the moment, they look somewhat fractured, but only because they’ve found new forms of the “Left” and “farther Left”
templates to squeeze themselves into.


279 posted on 06/03/2007 8:12:31 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

BUsh should have run as a New Republican in the same way Clinton ran as a New Democrat eight years earlier.


280 posted on 06/03/2007 8:13:59 AM PDT by supremedoctrine
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