Presidente Arbusto pleads for GOP immigration support

Despite the president's commitment, many conservatives in his own party have criticized the measure as an amnesty for millions of lawbreakers. Additionally, job approval ratings in the 30-percent range make it difficult for the president to bend even Republican lawmakers to his will.

"The message from a majority of Georgians is that they have no trust that the United States government will enforce the laws contained in this new legislation and secure the border first," it said. MORE

Hillary The Jock: I Play Pickup Basketball / Immigration Bill

NewsMax.com reports that she's at it again. Telling whoopers.
She Played Pickup Basketball.
Hillary remembered she even had won a trophy once in an Arkansas mixed-doubles tournament.

Among Hillary’s more hilarious claims:

• She was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. who climbed Mount Everest.
  
• She was a Yankees fan when she lived in Chicago.
  
• She told upstate New Yorkers she had been a "duck hunter.”
  
• She claimed on Sept. 11 daughter Chelsea was jogging around the World Trade Center.
NewsMax story

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Bush Administration officials are saying that the President will throw all of his influence this week into persuading the 38 GOP Senators who voted against amnesty last week that they were wrong.

Pres. Bush said this weekend that he understands that a lot of Americans and Senators have trouble with a deal that allows legalization of 12-20 million illegal aliens in exchange for heavy-duty enforcement in the future.

He says he understands that many Americans don't trust that the Federal government will live up to the enforcement end of the bargain because of past failure to do so.

But Pres. Bush says he will go to Capitol Hill Tuesday, look the Republicans in the eye and assure them that they can trust him to see that all enforcement happens.

There is something terribly strange about his whole argument.

It is as if the President who has refused to enforce most immigration laws the last six years is somebody other than himself.

In addition, Pres. Bush appears to be saying, "You can trust me to enforce the law if you approve the amnesty" but he is suggesting that without passing the amnesty the illegal immigration problem is going to grow far worse because the President won't be enforcing the law!

And he wonders why people don't trust him?

When you are calling GOP Senators, (202-224-3121) you may want to remind them that they may not want to switch their immigration position to follow Pres. Bush's leadership since his unpopularity is the reason they are now in the Senate minority in the first place. NumbersUSA
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Immigration Bill [update]

See Vote Tally By State
Motion to Invoke Cloture on S. 1348;
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007

On the Cloture Motion

By 34 yeas to 61 nays (Vote No. 204), three-fifths of those Senators duly chosen and sworn, having not voted in the affirmative, Senate rejected the motion to close further debate on the bill.
Bush 'surprised' by conservative anger
How can Presidente Arbusto be surprised when He constantly tries to alienate the conservative base?

RINO El Presidente Arbusto: "I urge Senator Reid to act quickly
to bring this bill back to the Senate floor for a vote."
Senate Majority Leader Harry "We can't win" Reid
clearly decided to let the controversial immigration-reform bill go to the floor with an uncertain future because he figured he could spin its failure as a defeat for President Bush - even though Reid himself supported the bill.

Immigration Bill Suffers Stunning Defeat
A White House-backed bill to revamp immigration laws stalled in the Senate on Thursday, handing Presidente Abusto a major legislative setback.
Check for latest updates on NumbersUSA.com
Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:09 PM
The Senate just voted 45 to 50 against invoking cloture on
S. 1348. Senator Reid has pulled the bill from the floor for now.