Posted on 05/20/2007 8:26:32 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
President Bush yesterday used his weekly radio address to urge listeners to support the immigration deal reached by a handful of senators last week, even as new poll numbers showed the immigration issue is hurting Mr. Bush's job-approval ratings....
But the deal is too harsh for some lawmakers, and not strict enough for others. Its fate could depend on whether senators, and the voters who elected them, view the deal as an amnesty for the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the country....
Meanwhile, a new Rasmussen Reports poll found Mr. Bush's approval rating dropped to an all-time low for that poll, at 34 percent.
"The president's ratings have tumbled each time immigration reform dominates the news," Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, said in his analysis.
Mr. Rasmussen said that his polling last year, after Mr. Bush gave an Oval Office address laying out his plans for more border enforcement and giving illegal aliens a path to citizenship, found only 39 percent supported the president's position.
I think we will see some other amnesty politicians fall in the polls.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
This might sound cold, but the Iraqis better start understanding that our President is not their leader and owes them nothing. They have their own elected leaders, thanks to the blood of U.S. soldiers, and they better start learning how to depend on them. However, Bush is our President and he is supposed to owe allegiance to the U.S. and it's citizens. The survival of my Country is at stake and my President has taken the side of foreigners over his own Countrymen.
Anti-Globalist, Anti Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED. FIRE!!
I wonder what the Mexicans have threatened him or his family with if he fails?
This issue has been mishandled for decades, but Bush's enlisting the Democrats to help shove this down our throats - it all makes Carter's giving away the Panama Canal look trivial, doesn't it?
If this is the Republicans idea of immigration reform supported by George W. Bush, this country is in serious trouble.
It is, however, a "fiat", in two senses of the word.
Congress and Senate as well. Their approval ratings are in the toilet as well.
After all they are the ones who came up with the whole darn thing.
Remember the imam invited (muzzamil siddiq) was caught on Fox News a year earlier yelling "Death to America." That was when I lost faith in the President. I have been questioning him ever since. I'm glad (yet sad) that most Freepers have finally seen it my way.
I could list another 50 examples, but I am so sick of this, I don't have the energy.
*reads headline*
Gee you think?
Actually, the loss of Congress in 2006 may possibly turn out to benefit Iraqis by forcing them to become self-sufficient by 2008. The alternative may well have been having the Iraqis take things more slowly in 2007 and 2008, and then get abandoned suddenly and totally in 2009.
When I resume my calling tomorrow, I’m going to ask my “conservative” back stabbing senators’ staffs where their new vacation houses in Mexico will be located.
What a mess he has made of everything.
I don’t understand why the dems hate him. Poor W is performing like a classic dem.
I hope he is sleeping with a smile on his face tonight dreaming of all the illegals and terrorist streaming across the borders here and in Iraq.
W, the jimmy carter of republicans, had better hope the mideast explodes after he leaves office.
Verdad, amigo mio? Que lastima. Vaya con dios. Adios. Nosotros Estados Unitos estan muerto.
If this goes through, our cities will look like Baghdad in a few years.
Exactly...I heard today in MSM that "only 3o% were happy with the direction the country was headed" and this was attributed to the war in Iraq. What BS. It's illegal immigration...too bad the liberal media has such a hard time with the truth....
For the first time in the last few years I did not give Bush a high rating due to his insane stance on Immigration Reform.
I gave congress a terrible lowest rating the women had at hand.
Nancy Pelooser and Hairless Read have actually taken a bad congress and made it worse.
I am sick of those arrogant Bastardos who call themselves my representatives.
I wished that I lived in Oklahoma and not in Kalifornia so I could be proud of my Senators.
LOL. Hey man, no more comedy. You’re ruining a turbocharged pity party.
Who really cares about W’s poll numbers? Lets just stop this damn bill, or reverse it with a new one. We the people can still rule if we want too. Over 80% of the nation is against this travesty of justice. They can’t stop all of us. Let’s go to Washington D.C. and march. Let’s have a 10 million people strong march. If that doesn’t make them listen then we can recall them all.
What happened to this guy? Has to be the biggest squandering of opportunity in American history. Hero to zero....
I don’t think he even cares. He obviously is doing whatever he wants to, and giving the middle finger to all the Conservatives and to America along the way.
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