[sickoflibs]

RE:” The trick for the GOP is to figure out what it will say yes to. Republicans are a bit like the Democrats in 2006 and 2008. Americans were sick of Bush and the Republicans back then, so they threw their support behind the Democrats by default. The Democrats over-read this support as a sweeping mandate for their agenda.....For too long Republicans confused supporting big business with supporting free markets, when big business is often the biggest impediment to fair competition. Other fresh new ingredients would almost surely include pro-family tax policies and the de-linking of legal and illegal immigration as interchangeable terms. But first, the GOP needs to admit it screwed up.(amen sol comment)”

I agree with much of this (see bold)it is sad and ironic that while the R party may look anti-legal-immigration over illegal immigration/amnesty, there was a massive historical wave of new legal immigrants to this country under Bush's eight years. It fed the housing boom on the east coast eating up every plot of open space in many areas . So what do we have now? Unemployment and immigrants voting Democrat (at least the past 6 years.) Did we really need them?

[stephenjohnbanker]

No we didn’t.

[1776 Reborn]

I think if the Republicans were smart they would revise the
immigration work permits policy and immigration after the 2010 elections to be a lot more reasonable. If they did this and sat on making the existing illegals legal these people would flow into the legal channels and defuse the illegal amnesty issue. Many of these people go home every year or they just come here to work. When they return to the U.S. they would choose to use a legal route if it made any sense and they might actually give the Republicans credit it.