Republicans warn Bush on immigration policy

Washington Times ^ | 1/28/04 | Valerie Richardson

[kattracks]

DENVER - Twenty-three congressmen warned President Bush in a letter yesterday that he risks an election-year backlash from Republican voters if he continues to press his guest-worker proposal.

The Republican lawmakers said their congressional offices have received a flood of angry letters, e-mails and phone calls from Republican constituents vowing that they will refuse to vote for the president if his program is approved.

[Texasforever]

USA to President Rove: Viva la gridlock!

Do you know how long gridlock would last? It would last until the midterm elections.

[Don Joe]

That's what the Rove Republicans are banking on.

Exactly. Except this time, I think they really have pushed the meat too far. The Standard Question ("Well, who ARE they gonna vote for if not us?") is likely gonna be answered this time around: "No one."

I've got a name for the large numbers of folks who'll be staying home on election day:

I call them "Roves Droves".

I think it's got a certain ring to it. :)

[Texasforever]

I call them "Roves Droves".

What happened to Bush-Bots?

[Don Joe]

The "base" has shown itself to be more opposition party than anything else.

Sez you. Regardless, "the base" is certainly showing itself to be both large, growing, and outraged.

Bush owes the "base" nothing.

Thanks, I was looking for some decent tagline material!

I think maybe it'll make good bumpersticker material too. What a message to send the voters!

[Don Joe]

What happened to Bush-Bots?

They're invisible to their own kind.

[Dane]

I've got a name for the large numbers of folks who'll be staying home on election day:

Print them or are you being Clintonesque with those names and they are actually multiple personalities of yours.

[Don Joe]

Do you know how long gridlock would last? It would last until the midterm elections.

Half a loaf is better than none.

[Dane]

What a message to send the voters!

Yeah your message of Vote for Kerry is out of place on FR, IMO.

[Texasforever]

Sez you. Regardless, "the base" is certainly showing itself to be both large, growing, and outraged.

LOL

[Texasforever]

Half a loaf is better than none.

Now that is real long term thinking. I can see why the "base" is sucking wind.

[Dane]

Half a loaf is better than none

Actually having Kerry as Commander in Chief would be more like a half of loaf of sawdust. Crumbly and mushy going after the terrorists.

But that is what it seems you are advocating. Thanks for nothing.

[Don Joe]

Print them or are you being Clintonesque with those names and they are actually multiple personalities of yours.

Um, riiiiiight.

All those thousands of irate callers and letter writers that Congress is talking about? All those posters on all those forums? All those callers on all those talk-radio shows? All those HOSTS on all those talk-radio shows?

They're me.

Every cotton-pickin' one of 'em!

They're ALL me, bwahahahahahahah!

Don't you just HATE it when someone confirms your paranoid delusions?

[calawah98]

Yep, the voting public is saying the bill isn't generous enough
They should have left medicare alone, it was fine the way it was.

All that needed to be done, was lower the prices of medications for the ones that needed it, make the drug companies sell to the poor, at the same price they sell to Mexico and Canada.

[Texasforever]

Careful, you are dealing with a political genius here.

[Don Joe]

Yeah your message of Vote for Kerry is out of place on FR, IMO.

Putting words in my mouth is what's out of place. I suggest you stop it. If you must flog that strawman, at least have the decency to do it in private. Children may be watching!

[Texasforever]

make the drug companies sell to the poor, at the same price they sell to Mexico and Canada.

Yeah that is real conservative. Lord.

[calawah98]

And it appears your principals are for destroying our borders, and turning the United States into a third world country.

I read where Miami says they are the city that wants to become the new capital of the Americas.

[Don Joe]

Actually having Kerry as Commander in Chief would be more like a half of loaf of sawdust. Crumbly and mushy going after the terrorists.

But that is what it seems you are advocating.

Actually, it's Rove that seems to be advocating it.

Thanks for nothing.

Don't thank me, thank Karl.

[Dane]

All those thousands of irate callers and letter writers that Congress is talking about? All those posters on all those forums? All those callers on all those talk-radio shows? All those HOSTS on all those talk-radio shows?

Huh? What thousands? Buchanan had 380,000(0.38% of the vote) votes in 2000. So I guess that's what you mean by those thousands.

[Don Joe]

So be it. Bush will not back down though.

Too bad. Stubbornly sticking with a bad decision, just to spite those who elected him is not what this country needs in its president.