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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LOL...I like your analogy better.
Yes, but Klinton was from a town called, "Hope"..cringe...zzzz
That's your interpretation.
Anyhow, that's how you come across.
To you; because that's how you NEED us to sound.
The problem I think you will have is that you aren't making rational arguments for your position but instead saying "if you don't like it, leave".
FGS, you all have been saying the same damn things for the last six years, for the last two you've been saying them mostly to yourselves because the rest of the forum got sick of hearing all the negatism.
That is just squandering an opportunity for you to convince people to embrace your open border views.
Now, I'll sit right here while you find ANY post of mine in the last eight years where I've said anything close to that.
Now you've shot off your mouth: back it up.
Sure worksite enforcement is down. The president moved all such funds to border enforcement.
geez...amazing. Its all about the dollar. Grandfather lied.
Well what do you expect when he's attacked 24/7 even by people who all claim to have supported him before but didn't.
None.
To be precise, it was after Rathergate.
Privately, Bush Says He Favors Citizenship (for Illegals)
He says it publically too.
Heck, I say it too: Send them back and let them come back in legally as guest workers or whatever and apply.
Everybody happy except the unappeasables on both sides.
I think I was pretty clear in my post
To think that I "wasted" 20 years, getting my citizenship legally! I feel cheated, let down... OTOH, I would not trade the knowledge of the US goverment and Constitution that I acquired during that period for ANYTHING. And I mean it!
Nonsense.
With all due respect, no President in modern history has faced the global and domestic challenges that GWB has. Successfully, I might add.
We're winning a global war on terror, and in spite of an attack designed to paralyze us we've got more disposable income, our economy has never been more productive, and the geopolitical landscape is tipping toward freedom for the first time in my lifetime.
George Walker Bush may share part of George Herbert Walker Bush's name....but the son has inherited far more treacherous global and domestic problems...and had met them with a courage and commitment that should humble the father.
On immigration, and most of the conservative agenda, he is most definitely in touch with average Americans, unlike the Beltway bandits we're talking about.
But, Tancredo wanted to be inside the Beltway so much that he broke his own pledge to only serve three terms.
Well, if you're going to need to repent, repenting of foolishly supporting unilateral disarmament is the way to go.
Does he want to be inside or outside the Beltway because term limits promises mean nothing to him, and he wants to serve like a Pope?
Like most, he probably feels that his country needs him. Unlike most, in his case he's probably right.
Huh?
Thanks...
Whew. Looks like the party is heating up!
I've merely asked that our immigration laws be enforced and you call this "negatism".
Please make a rational argument to the positiveness of not enforcing our immigration laws. I'm willing to consider your argument.
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