Posted on 05/26/2007 7:19:32 PM PDT by BrerRabbit
May 25, 2007 - The immigration deal worked out between Senate leaders and the White House is an unwieldy compromise nobody much likes. Democrats will mostly support it because the liberal lion, Ted Kennedy, is leading the charge. And the fact that right-wing Republicans are worked up into such a lather about the bill may give some Democrats enough reason to back it.
President Bush is at war with his own party, tearing it apart over an issue that was supposed to be the GOP’s ticket to an enduring governing majority. In his Rose Garden press conference Thursday, he pleaded with lawmakers to recognize that the way they deal with the estimated 12 million illegal immigrants is about “the heart and soul of America,” a country founded by immigrants. “I would rather they come here legally than stuffed in the back of an 18-wheeler,” Bush said.
Bush has the right instincts when it comes to immigration policy. He was elected governor four years after Pete Wilson took the statehouse in California and made national headlines with his punitive approach to the state’s burgeoning immigrant population. Wilson was consigned to the dustbin of history while Bush rode the politics of compassionate conservatism and Hispanic outreach to the White House. Between 2000 and 2004, Bush doubled his share of the Hispanic vote from 21 percent to 40 percent, and Karl Rove’s dream of a Republican realignment for the 21st century that would rival FDR’s long run for the Democrats seemed within reach.
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LOL!
Kennedy the Lion? HUH?
How about Kennedy the Elephant!
You beat me to it--already!
You got that right. She is the epitome of liberal moonbat.
If Eleanor Clift being on your side doesn’t make you think, nothing will.
When Eleanor says you’re right, it’s proof-positive you’re wrong.
Eleanor Clift loves the smell of napalm among Republicans.
I didn’t know this poor woman was on drugs.
“Smell-eanor Clift and Jorge Bush on immigration.”
With friends like Eleanor Clift, he doesn’t need enemies. Anything that Marxist is for, every conservative is against.
Well, if that hag is on the President's side of immigration.
I know the conservative position is the correct one.
Eleanor Rodham Clift - another Clinton knee pad wearer!
Eleanor Clift is a dishonest writer.
I can’t call her a journalist.
She earned her kneepads in the 1990s.
She’s the type that Stalin would pat on the head and say “good little girl”.
Then, by all means, they should come here legally.
First of all Mexico is one of the world's better places to live.
Secondly, if all those Mexicans are going to be so great for America, think how great they'd be in Mexico itself.
If Eleanor and "W" really cared about Mexico and the welfare of Mexican people they'd have the Army rounding them all up and sending them back as we speak.
Their sympathies are faux and extend no further than their concern for having a handy underclass available for lawmowing and hedge trimming.
This always happens when you get too much money ~ you lose the common touch and start thinking your most casual, self-serving thoughts are actually "god-like".
Whoever thought that granting amnesty to tens of millions of natural Democrat voters with allegiance to their third world hellholes of origin would be "the GOP's ticket to an enduring governing majority" should have their heads examined. .....to put it kindly.
“Eleanor Clift: Bush is Right on Immigration”
How to tell that you are 180 degrees out of phase from where you ought to be on ANY issue?
Eleanor Clift agrees with you on it.
Doesn’t require much thought. Does pass the smell test, though.
I’m starting to wonder if GW is changing, or am I? I didn’t think he was the best choice for President, but I was pleasantly surprised by his performance up until very recently; i.e. the immigration debate.
I’m all for legal immigration, and I understand the illegals who want a better life for themselves and their families, but I really don’t like them choosing first to break our law...
Have we all forgotten to pray for him to be guided to do what is best for our country, or something?
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