Posted on 04/26/2006 5:20:12 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans, according to senators who attended a recent White House meeting.
Several officials familiar with the meeting also said Democrats protested radio commercials that blamed them for Republican-written legislation that passed the House and would make illegal immigrants vulnerable to felony charges.
Bush said he was unfamiliar with the ads, which were financed by the Republican National Committee, according to officials familiar with the discussions.
At another point, Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other members of his party pressed the president about their concern that any Senate-passed bill would be made unpalatable in final talks with the House.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, said the lawmaker who would lead House negotiators, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, had been "intractable" in negotiations on other high-profile bills in the past. Bush did not directly respond to the remark, officials said.
The Republican and Democratic officials who described the conversation did so Wednesday on condition of anonymity, saying they had not been authorized to disclose details.
Bush convened the session to give momentum to the drive for election-year immigration legislation, a contentious issue that has triggered large street demonstrations and produced divisions in both political parties. Senators of both parties emerged from the session praising the president's involvement and said the timetable was achievable.
"Yes, he thinks people should be given a path to citizenship," said Sen. Mel Martinez., R-Fla., a leading supporter of immigration legislation in the Senate.
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So I guess tommorrow you are going to sign up for a vegetable picker or janitorial job.
Heck, they're so far to the right they're coming up on the left.
Some of you sound like you want to go.
Frankly, we're sick of being blackmailed for your vote.
All Blue States of Big Cities who's mayor have informed their city workers not to go after the illegal
Why don't you go after them
"GEORGE W. Bush is NOT running for anything."
All he does is lead the Republican Party, which IS campaigning for 2006 Congress and Senate seats. Therefore he is a threat.
Ronald Regan ga"ve no questions asked, immediate, BLANKET AMNESTY to ALL illegal amnesty. That is NOT what President Bush is for. So, I guess that Reagan "disavowed the sovereignty of this country" and "opened the gates ( there are gates to some invisible wall, that surrounds the USA, are there? ) to the barbarians"; in your opinion. Was Reagan also a traitor and a LIBERAL?"
Reagan gave a ONE TIME amnesty when the numbers were 3 million, Bush would be effectively putting into place a rolling amnesty, because if you can't stop 11 million from stealing citizenship, how are you going to stop the next thirty million? Whip them with spaghetti noodles?
Do you think Reagan would have acted the same in 2006 as in 1980? Or would he at least have been smart enough to pull his head out from where the sun don't shine?
Perhaps those of us who aren't in the far left or the far right whack groups should come together and elect somebody.
I was simply saying GWB, as the son of Bush 41, is not an "out of the Beltway entity".---And, an out of the Beltway entity is my hope for a Republican revival in 2008.
I was not commenting on anyone's "conservative" credentials.
Are you talking about his brother Jeb's wife ( LEGAL IMMIGRANT and naturalized citizen ) and his nieces and nephews, from that family, who were ?
Or are you talking about his other relations, all of whom were born in the USA; for many generations, nary a one of them an illegal?
You mean like we do at every election?
Oh please do keep talking
1. It is troublesome someone is leaking this (old news) information. Makes you wonder who is leaking this and why they are leaking it.
2. I think this points out that Bush is just as much a "know better than you" elitist on this issue.
It is sad.
Ih it was President Reagan in 1987 who said, "Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall" and in 1979 was the first to propose NAFTA.
Exactly.
For every whacko WE lose, we'll pick up a conservative Democrat who is as fed up with HIS kooks are we are with ours.
Not really. His family history puts him inside the beltway.
You know Dane I remember you three or four years on threads saying the same thing. You're like a broken record. If you think the 12 to 20 million illegal aliens in this country are strictly janitors and vegetable pickers I've got a bridge to sell you. They're in practically every job imaginable these days and they are depressing wages and shutting Americans out of them that they otherwise would have gotten for a liveable wage.
The only connection I see between George One and George Two is the name. George Two was out in the business world when Pop became a Washington insider (and if you look back at that One may have lived in DC and worked there for years but was he every really that much of an insider).
George Two has never lived/worked in DC, was a successful business man then successful state governor before coming to DC.
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