Posted on 07/19/2007 5:27:42 PM PDT by backtothestreets
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - President Bush sharply challenged critics of his stalled immigration-overhaul efforts on Thursday, suggesting that failure to pass a guest-worker program could trigger a labor shortage in the United States.
At a town-hall style meeting, Bush also rebuffed a question about whether he would consider pardoning two Border Patrol agents in prison for the cover-up of the shooting of a drug trafficker in Texas.
"No, I won't make you that promise," Bush told a woman who asked about a possible pardon. Many Republicans in Congress have said the men should not have been convicted and have criticized the federal U.S. attorney for even prosecuting the agents.
"I know it's an emotional issue but people need to look at the facts. These men were convicted by a jury of their peers after listening to the facts" as presented by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, said Bush. Bush called Sutton a friend.
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and last year, and the year before.
I would answer if I had any idea what that means.
Because we're all paying for his views. In Emergency Rooms and classrooms and auto accidents with Mexicans who are uninsured and who escape penalties levied against the rest of us because we have licenses.
With all due respect this is so whiney and pathetic.
As if being in an accident with an uninsured American citizen is Bush's fault too.
Or paying for lazy welfare American families and their kids is a reason to lose sleep at night.
The idea that you consider all these things an excuse to become hateful is really pathetic.
but that's different....he's a friend.
That's better.
OK, I have a different opinion from that of the idol worshippers who see halos of light behind Bush's head. Do you consider me hateful?
No, just silly. And a bit delusional.
Isn't that just another piece of paper Bush would rather forget?
OH, and he's very careful to not get caught saying things himself, but whenever there are battles of THE PEOPLE v. THE ELITES (Harriet Myers, Dubai Ports, amnesty for criminals), Bush sends out his jack booted thugs to call us names like bigots, sexists, xenophobes. Then he can stand there looking befuddled and tell us we are incapable of understanding what is good for the country.
Take a pill.
Hateful.
put your crack pipe down.
Stop hating!
At least the citizen belongs here and can be held to account for his actions through the courts. He probably has no alias or false ID or the ability to flee to another country.
You really need to think your position through. It's not gonna cut it here.
Ha ha ..You're getting more clever by the minite!
Every time I hear the joke speaking anymore my head hurts. How he can dishs out the crap he dishes out is beyond me.
Stop Shilling!
I’m praying for you!
Better clever than an idolater.
It is Bush’s fault that over one million illegal aliens have entered the country during each of his years in office. His friend Clinton may have started the last mass migration when NAFTA passed, but things started spinning out of control in 2000 and haven’t slowed down. Unless you live in a border state, you wouldn’t see many of the effects until recently.
I consider being told that we are too lazy to do the work hateful too. Bush repeats that lie every chance he gets.
You actually believe this?
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