If conservatives had realized that his guest worker program would have screened out everyone who did not have a job and an employer willing to vouch for them this number would be about 20% of what is given here. All that shamnesty stuff gives us lots more welfare recipients etc. You should learn that politics is the art of the possible not of temper tantrums and thumping your chest asserting "we are the base".
Twenty years from now, people will wonder why we didn't listen to him.
http://www.rnha.org/ImmigrationReformNow/hagel%20martinez%20amendment.htm
This is the senate bill that Bush said he would get behind.
It is not amnesty for all, but it comes close.
"If conservatives had realized that his guest worker program would have ...............bla, bla, bla"
It would have done nothing to stop the inflow of illegals.
Now, Claire, don't try to bring rational thoughts into this discussion!
Disrespectful condescension is not the way to bring us back.
You're dead on.
I'm so frustrated and disappointed by all of the garbage that's going on.
I would otherwise NOT be for the passage of any such bill, but at this point, perhaps it's time to send the freaking base a "message", as it "will only last 2 years".
President Bush will not sign anything with full amnesty, but at this point, I wish he would.