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Posted on 06/25/2009 9:14:08 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
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And as the White House holds a bipartisan summit on immigration Thursday, Republicans are warning that Obama needs to offer a specific plan or risk seeing the issue die this Congress.
“He needs to really lead on that,” said Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.), who was a member of a bipartisan group that unsuccessfully pushed an immigration bill in 2007. “I think it’s very, very important that he give a clear signal on where he is on an issue with that level of specificity.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), another supporter of the 2007 bill, said President George W. Bush ran into the same problem on immigration by failing to provide a clear message or produce a specific proposal — allowing critics of a guest-worker program for illegal immigrants to call it “amnesty” for lawbreakers.
Graham is sympathetic to the predicament a president faces.
“It’s a hard call for an executive to make,” Graham said. “Sometimes you want to set kind of a goal and fill in the blanks later. Sometimes you want to send a specific proposal and let people work off of it.”
Another Republican, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, said it would be “foolish” for his former rival to change his approach to the Hill, given that he’s gotten most of what he’s wanted this year, including a $787 billion economic stimulus bill that Congress wrote after Obama laid out the broad goals.
“Look, he’s got an unbroken record of success. For me to be critical of someone who has an unbroken record of success would be foolish,” McCain said.
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McCain.
a tortured individual and Obama is the one torturing him every day with all of his successes.
Sad.
GOP leadership in action. LOL!
It has been clear to me for several years that McCain is ga-ga.
Cut the ish and you have both Obama and McPain.
vaudine
I really hope Rush picks up on this today. McCain and his pet chihuahua need to be flushed.
Brilliant McCain, why in the world would you ever be critical of some one destroying this Republic, you damned old fool.
Yeah, apparently acting like you were running against him in a Presidential race (”Obama would make a fine President”) would be foolish too, eh McCain?
Well hey, at least he got a new torturer! Bush torturing him by being President was pushing him to his limit.
John McCain is foolish!
I'm beginning to think both sides are in on whatever agenda is being pushed on our country. I see no other explanation and I see no leader on our side emerging to really> speak out against what is going on.
Nonsense. When we have legitimate reasons to criticize Obama, we should criticize away. How else do we distinguish ourselves from the Democrats?
I think the old RINO has gone completely nuts.
McCain — that’s why you lost, Jackass!
GOPers need to accept the reality that if a immigration bill passes in this congress, it will contain provisions for no guest workers or only a few guest workers. Unions don't like guest workers
It will contain amnesty and higher quotas on immigration.
McCain — you really need to be honest and switch to the Democrat Party. You certainly have not helped the Republican or Conservative cause in the least under your leadership.
I totally agree... They already have a filibuster-proof majority... Good riddance to this old fool
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