Posted on 04/26/2006 5:20:12 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
President Bush generally favors plans to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance at U.S. citizenship without leaving the country, but does not want to be more publicly supportive because of opposition among conservative House Republicans, according to senators who attended a recent White House meeting.
Several officials familiar with the meeting also said Democrats protested radio commercials that blamed them for Republican-written legislation that passed the House and would make illegal immigrants vulnerable to felony charges.
Bush said he was unfamiliar with the ads, which were financed by the Republican National Committee, according to officials familiar with the discussions.
At another point, Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other members of his party pressed the president about their concern that any Senate-passed bill would be made unpalatable in final talks with the House.
Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat, said the lawmaker who would lead House negotiators, House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner, had been "intractable" in negotiations on other high-profile bills in the past. Bush did not directly respond to the remark, officials said.
The Republican and Democratic officials who described the conversation did so Wednesday on condition of anonymity, saying they had not been authorized to disclose details.
Bush convened the session to give momentum to the drive for election-year immigration legislation, a contentious issue that has triggered large street demonstrations and produced divisions in both political parties. Senators of both parties emerged from the session praising the president's involvement and said the timetable was achievable.
"Yes, he thinks people should be given a path to citizenship," said Sen. Mel Martinez., R-Fla., a leading supporter of immigration legislation in the Senate.
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I don't see anywhere in there that he gave an OPINION of the Minutemen, do you?
He never claimed to be YOUR kind of conservative; he said what he believed in and for the last six years, you all have been bitching about how he doesn't believe "just like I do."
I wonder if they still do that.
It does doesn't it. That's because many DEMs will sell out the nation for their 30 pieces as quick as quite a few in the GOP will these days. Corporations now own the control of both political parties. Corps not excluding ones such as health care insurers as well.
type 3 then copy paste, type 3 then copy paste, type 3 then copy paste.
NOPE. It was a trick question by media and he outsmarted them as always.
IF he had a beef with the Minutemen, why not name them?
Precisely.
And look who's twisting the words like Bill Clinton........LOL.
Then you are far better than E.D. Hill of Fox and Friends who let her little lie of unemployment of 14% hang out there for about a week.
Too much strident behavior; not good for the cause. It is a shame to see.
To: Howlin
"Oh, please don't quote me a newspaper by a reporter, FGS."
Please post non-newspaper links for those "facts" you posted concerning presidential approval numbers.
Thanks.
544 posted on 04/27/2006 12:15:31 AM CDT by Prokopton"
Is this what your replying to?
Thanks! I'll have to check them out in the morning.
Some of the best Marxist stuff I've read since college comes out on these threads.
If he had a real beef with them, I expect he could find a way to stop them.
He probably doesn't like them down there, inciting these issues while he's trying to get some sort of plan together.
It's certainly not helping.
"A terrorism alert is not a signal to stop your life. It is a call to be vigilant -- to know that your government is on high alert, and to add your eyes and ears to our efforts to find and stop those who want to do us harm." President Bush November 2001
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011108-13.html
Since Bush is so famously uninterested in newspapers, it is plausible that he might never have heard of the Minutemen and truly might have been referring to "vigilantes" that he read about in a Larry McMurtry novel.
If you can't follow along on these threads, perhaps this isn't the place for you, huh?
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