Bush immigration bill push tests clout

Associated Press ^ | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

[Obie Wan]

if the Democrats keep the house and the senate and win the presidency what kind of immigration bill will we have then?

You know what,that very question was being discussed the other day on talk radio by Michael Graham and a member of the Heritage Foundation and the concensus was it wouldn’t be any worse.Besides Teddy Kennedy co-authored it so how much worse could it get ???

[tennmountainman]

“what kind of immigration bill will we have then? That scares me, maybe it scares Bush too.”

The kind of bill which democrats get ALL the blame for and swept out of office faster than the 1994 revolution.

[Principled]

So far, however, the president's efforts to give the bill a personal boost — most visibly in his recent harsh criticism of its opponents in speeches during Congress' Memorial Day break — appear to have had the opposite effect.

So instead of asserting reasons the bill should be passed, Bush attacks, namecalls, and criticizes opponents for the act of opposition.

What the hell is wrong with him?

[jmj3jude]

I don’t know about that, if the Democrats got free reign on an immigration bill, would they get blamed—not by the media or all the new mexican voters. It just scares me, I know this is not a good bill, but anything democrats would come up with without obstacle's scares me more!

[RightWingConspirator]

This repeated amnesty effort will certainly wipe out any support or influence that he has left.

[Condor51]

President Bush is putting his influencewithin his own party to the test Tuesday as he pleads personally with skeptical Senate Republicans to resurrect his immigration bill.

His "influence"????

Right now his "influence" couldn't help someone get elected Librarian. He's a lame duck, a dead POTUS walking. For the GOP he's more toxic than ebola. Hell, he can't even pick his own Joint Chief, Carl Levin is doing it. Too boot he hands of his Iraq mess to some freaking 'War Czar (just what we need another bureaucrat). He might as well stay at his ranch and clear brush until Jan 2009.

[taxed2death]

“Men like him are needed....”

What, egotistical automatons who snub 72% of Americans who are adamantly against this POS sellout?

Ummmmmmmmmmmmm. No.

We don’t need the likes of him. Not by a long shot.

[Joe Boucher]

Go cut some trees on your ranch there Mr. President.
I know I’ve lost confidence in your butt and I was a true supporter.

[taxed2death]

“He has led this world in the WOT like very few could have or would have.”

WOT?

You’re pretty funny.

Not.

A WOT with 6000 unknowns meandering across our borders each week?

Go sell stupid somewhere else please.

[taxed2death]

“Imposing penalties on employers is foolishness. So now you want to further burden the private sector (small business owners) because the Fed and State Gov’t can’t handle their own responsibilities.”

Obviously not a (legit) small business owner....LOL.

$29 gets me all the info I need on a prospective employer to determine if he is here legally or not.

Workplace enforcement works. Read up.

[Brad’s Gramma]

BTTT

[Cacique]

This is not over yet. Bush refuses to give up this easily. It's his stuborn character. He will try to resurect it and call it something else. We have to keep our guard up. We need to keep the pressure up.

STAGE TWO is to go after the people who hire illegals. Start giving them fines and arresting them. Just catch ten or 100 of them on the nightly news. The magnet will dry up and most of the 12 million will go home by themselves.

As an adendum, we should anonymously call the IRS, people working "off the books" means taxes ain't being paid. Make anonymous fliers and hang them around the neighborhood, name names. It's time to embarras these bustards, whether they give to the GOP or Rats, we don't need them.

STOP AMNESTY NOW!! WE CAN DO IT!!

CALL! CALL! CALL! CALL! AND KEEP CALLING TILL THE LINES FRY!

WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! WRITE! TILL YOU RUN OUT OF INK IN YOUR PEN!

Bombard the Democrats as well, especially the ones that ran on an anti illegal immigration plank and the ones in marginal districts who could be vulnerable. keep pounding on them. This is a bipartisan issue not a Conservative or Liberal issue BUT AN AMERICAN issue.

[Politicalmom]

Why don’t we just go back to a monarchy, then?

He has NO RIGHT to destroy our country with his treasonous ideas.

[toomanylaws]

“This issues has shown (sadly so) that there is a segment of our base which is really of the same pathetic ilk as the DEM’s base”

Seems like you have a habit of degrading & name calling the people you disagree with.