Bush blames Democrats for stalled immigration reform

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Bush blames Democrats for stalled immigration reform

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush, trying to head off the latest in a string of setbacks, blamed Democratic "blocking tactics" on Saturday for stalling an immigration overhaul and urged an end to the impasse. Bush used his weekly radio address to point the finger at Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid for the breakdown on Friday of a Senate compromise plan to reform immigration law and give millions of illegal immigrants a chance for citizenship.

Failure to approve the bill, which would create a temporary worker program as proposed by Bush, could derail major changes in immigration laws for this year, dealing another blow to a president beset by his lowest public approval ratings since taking office. Gridlock over the legislation, which would be the biggest immigration overhaul in two decades, touched off recriminations.

"Unfortunately, this compromise is being blocked by the Senate Democratic leader who has refused to allow senators to move forward and vote on amendments to this bill," Bush said. "I call on the Senate Minority Leader to end his blocking tactics and allow the Senate to do its work and pass a fair, effective immigration reform bill," he added.

Reid, a Nevada lawmaker, responded that Democrats were "committed to comprehensive, bipartisan immigration reform," and said that Bush was "flat out wrong about what happened to the immigration bill." "It was President Bush and Republicans in Congress who lacked the backbone to stand up to the extreme right-wing of their party" and vote for a bipartisan plan, Reid said in a statement. "Sadly, President Bush and Republican leaders could not even get senators who supported and endorsed this bill to vote for it," said Sen. Ken Salazar, Colorado Democrat, in a statement...

http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2006-04-08T193054Z_01_N07318981_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-IMMIGRATION.xml

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Ummm, how can the minority block anything

in the way the Senate works these days?

[LynnTheDem]

2. bush blames EVERYONE ELSE for EVERYTHING.

As always.

[noahmijo]

3. Noahmijo blames rich white republicans for mass demand for immigrant

workers.

Who do you think does the most hiring of illegals? you think small liberal shop owners are the ones locking illegals into their warehouses until dawn?

It is ALWAYS rich white republican business owners who own companies like Wal-Mart that hire illegals in mass quantities to do the work cheap for them.


Why pay an American a livable wage when you can pay them brown people a fraction of it??

I'll bet anyone a week's pay that when Cheney came down here to Tucson Arizona to collect his $500k in donations that at least 25-30% of the suckers/assholes in that gathering use illegals for some sort of job duty whether it be to clean their floors or do the work that their wives are too busy to do themselves as they can't juggle hair salon appointments with vacuuming.

You've got a choice America. If you can't handle payin $5 for a head of lettuce then immigration ain't go nowheres*



*not really how I talk

[Deja Q]

4. A uniter, not a divider... His own repub fanbase aren't happy either...

and he's blaming it all on Dems.

Sheesh.

No reform is needed. What we have works. They want to open it up in their quest to devalue all forms of work. Anybody supporting Bush on this issue is supporting exploitation and what's tantamount to slavery and the slow, painful death of the middle class.

[standup]

6. This is how the GOP will campaign in Nov: blame illegals on Dems

[BrklynLiberal]

5. You mean it isn't all Clinton's fault?

[stray cat]

7. Its actually my fault (after all I have about as much power as the dems)