President Bush Disappointed by Congress's Failure to Act on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Whitehouse.gov ^ | 6/28/2007 | George W Bush

[Rio]

THE PRESIDENT: I thank the members of the Senate and members of my administration who worked so hard on the border security and immigration reform bill. I'm sorry the Senate was unable to reach agreement on the bill this morning.

Legal immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people and Congress's failure to act on it is a disappointment. The American people understand the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to our immigration laws. A lot of us worked hard to see if we couldn't find a common ground -- it didn't work.

Congress really needs to prove to the American people that it can come together on hard issues. The Congress needs to work on comprehensive energy policy and good health care; make sure health care is affordable without inviting the federal government to run the health care system. We've got to work together to make sure we can balance this federal budget, and not overspend or raise taxes on the American people. We've got a lot of work to do.

When they come back from the summer -- from the July recess, before the summer break begins, we'll be focusing on the appropriations process. And I look forward to working with Congress to balance our budgets and to be wise about how we spend the people's money.

Thank you for your time.

[Rio]

Spruance Auditorium
Naval War College
Newport, Rhode Island
12:38 P.M. EDT

[PhiKapMom]

He still doesn’t get it. The American people did not like his bill! Amazing!

[hiredhand]

[onedoug]

"We've got a lot of work to do."

No kidding? What is happening to the man?

[SlowBoat407]

Legal immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people and Congress's failure to act on completely undermine it is a disappointment. Fixed it for him.

[xcamel]

Boo-Friggin-Hoo, Jorge

[Travis McGee]

[rabscuttle385]

We didn't like his bill, and now we don't like him!

[KarlInOhio]

The American people understand the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to our immigration laws.

The status quo of a house fire is unacceptable. That doesn't mean that we should toss buckets of gasoline on it to show that we are "doing something".

[Just another Joe]

Legal Illegal immigration is one of the top concerns of the American people, and Congress's failure to act on it understanding of that is a disappointment. The American people understand the status quo is unacceptable when it comes to our immigration laws border security. A lot of us worked hard to see if we couldn't find common ground a way to give amnesty to a bunch of illegal lawbreakers. It -- it didn't work. ...

There, fixed the President's statement so that it says what he meant.

[Beckwith]

Well, there’s a couple of hundred million of us that aren’t.

[blam]

Yup. Gonna be hard to explain to the CFR & TLC. No to the NWO, Bushie!!

[lonewacko_dot_com]

Here’s the video of his remarks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH2QB7p7drQ

At least he fulfilled his pledge to the Mexican government.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Glad the President got to experience this disappointment.

Now he knows how I feel about him.

[org.whodat]

Baghdad Bob has moved to the white house.

[vpintheak]

Dear President Bush,
Cry me a river. Suck it up, buttercup. Enforce the law of the land, NOW!
Sincerely,
The Veep

[LucyT]

Rumor: ALERT - WHITE HOUSE HAS EXECUTIVE ORDER READY TO SIGN [RUMOR]

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=192462

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

My question to you, idiot Bush, are all those bribes (my tax money) you promised your crooked friends to vote your way, are they still going to be doled out or what? Being a non-crooked person myself (probably my stupidity all these years…I should have gone into politics or the Mafia), I don’t understand how these things work.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Politics = Mafia

The same damn thing.

[Bigun]

Much better!

Thanks!