Posted on 04/24/2006 8:27:33 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
IRVINE, Calif., April 24 -- Under pressure from Republicans to play a bigger role in the immigration debate, President Bush will begin meeting key lawmakers Tuesday to help forge a bipartisan agreement by Memorial Day to offer some undocumented workers a path to citizenship.
But White House aides emphasized that Bush has no intention for now of staking clear legislative positions on the immigration bill. He does not want to embrace a proposal, only to see it lose once House and Senate negotiators try to reach a final agreement, whose prospects are still seen as remote on Capitol Hill.
For a president anxious to show he still wields power in Washington, the immigration issue is looming ever larger. Beyond a few smaller energy and science proposals, legislation to tighten the nation's borders, address the 12 million illegal immigrants already here and offer new avenues for legal employment for immigrants may be the only major domestic initiative still attainable for Bush this year.
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They want this wrapped up by Memorial day.
Good luck.
Why is he doing this to us?
If amnesty passes, millions of CONSERVATIVE Republicans like myself will be sitting at home on election day (rather than support the RINO Senators that vote for this idiotic bill.)
So, what does this mean. Here in Mexico Friends are leaving tomorrow to cross the border, in hopes they can get in under the wire. They are leaving a little fellow, the SON behind. This whole scenario I worry more for separation in families, and think the worst result of all of this will bein 12 years when tots grow up without a dad in the house.
Pursuing amnesty for illegals is a very foolish activity in an election year, and if they continue this, it's just going to cost the Republicans votes.
Good grief.
ENFORCEMENT FIRST.
July 2 Presidential Election in Mexico
How foolish.
You will help to elect Marxist democrats.
As opposed to the Marxist Republicans we have running the show now?
I have 2 major choices, Republican or Democrat. When they both make me gag I will stay home....too sick to go out to vote.
What's the difference, most of them make me sick.
There are OTHER issues.
Need I remind you?
Democrats are soft on the WOT.
Want to pull out of Iraq?
The difference is a war in Iraq well on its way to being won.
If you think that would have happened under Democrats you are way uneducated.
Wonderful.
The democrats are countig on you to stay home.
I share your concerns here. But do you want Hillary Et. Al. running the show?. It isn't good now but it can become much worse.
well when the "elect a democrat" doesn't work you guys pull out the WOT. hahahaha What WOT? You can't have a war on terror with no homeland security.
The bitter political fight has made it seem as if the election were really a vote between a continuation of Fox's free- trade policies and López Obrador's proposals for more protectionism, free health care and other government benefits for the poor.
By campaigning openly to defend his legacy and to support the candidate of his conservative National Action Party, Fox is breaking a tradition. In the past, though, sitting presidents could easily remain above the fray because, until Fox won in 2000, the long-ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party determined the outcome of elections in advance.
"He's clearly worried that Andrés Manuel López Obrador will be president and the country's economic model will change," said Denise Dresser, a political scientist in Mexico City.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/04/news/mexico.php
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We can only hope.
One issue voters are always blackmailing the party and only the small faction of those who are truly foolish actually stay home.
We win elections without them.
"Pursuing amnesty for illegals is a very foolish activity in an election year, and if they continue this, it's just going to cost the Republicans votes."
Hopefully it will only cost the Ted Kennedy Republicans votes, not the real Republicans.
Franky, I don't think the Real Republicans are too worried about the November elections.
And if the Democrats take over the Senate, who cares? The Ted Kennedy coalition of the U.S. Senate already has a majority, between the Ted Kennedy Democrats and Ted Kennedy Republicans.
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