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The supreme court let us down on CFR. Remember McCain was all for it and if this hadnt happened, there is no telling what he might have done. Enough idiots still support him and he might have run in the primaries. Suffice it to say that the legislation as per what Bush said, HAS TO BE WRITTEN in Congress and this is not coming from the senate.

With all due respect, and with what I hope is a very gentle reminder of how the legislative process works: ALL MEMBERS OF CONGRESS (House and Senate) can write legislation at any time. Whether or not a particular bill gets very far depends on it's content, the support the originating member can drum up for it, and so on. Being head of the Executive Branch, all any president can do is propose legislation. It is ALWAYS up to Congress to hammer out the legislative details in a bill, pass it, and send it to the president for his signature.

What appears to have happened in this instance is that President Bush has outlined several provisions he'd like to see in legislation. He seems to have based his proposals on legislation that has already been written by John McCain and several other members of the Arizona delegation. What the above article is saying is that if the president does not put his muscle behind this legislation, it is likely to go nowhere this election year.

You make my second point. If they Repubs DO stop this travesty, they'll be painted as anti-immigration racists.

You know it is coming. Bush plopped one right in the middle of the punch bowl with this one. He placed his own party on the horns of a dilemma.