Analysis: Bush Courts Two Sides at OnceBy TOM RAUM
The Associated Press
Tuesday, May 16, 2006; 7:14 AM
WASHINGTON -- President Bush stepped to the right and left at the same time
on immigration: courting conservatives with tough talk of sending the National Guard
to the border and seeking to reassure moderates that a guest-worker program will
be part of the mix.
"These are not contradictory goals," he declared in a prime-time address to the nation.
Neither side seemed reassured.
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"It's amazing how tone-deaf this man is. This is the No. 1 issue that will lead to the
takeover of Congress by Democrats," said longtime conservative activist Richard Viguerie.
"The White House doesn't seem to have receivers. They only have transmitters."
Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, delivering a Democratic response, said Democrats were
"willing to support any reasonable plan." But, he said, Democrats would not go along
with "a plan cobbled together to win political favor."
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