The president meets with lawmakers to discuss a strategy for passing a bill this year; gaining Republican support will be a challenge. He will make his case to the public in a speech Thursday.
Reporting from Washington —
It would be a revival worthy of Lazarus, but President Obama is making a renewed push for an immigration overhaul, possibly during a lame-duck session of Congress after the November election — when members would no longer face an imminent political risk for supporting it.Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in the State Dining Room on Tuesday and discussed a strategy for passing a bill that had seemed dead for the year.
On Thursday morning, the president will put the issue before the American public. In a speech at American University, he plans to make the case for providing a path to legal status for the estimated 11 million people who live in the U.S. illegally while (claiming he will strengthen border enforcement.) Where have we heard that before? OBAMA LIES!
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at his daily briefing Tuesday that "this continues to be a very important national issue" requiring Republican support. To date, no Republican senators have agreed to back a comprehensive immigration bill. Nor has such a bill been introduced in the Senate. (Let's pray it stays that way.)
With conservatives energized, angry and likely to storm to the polls, Democrats fear they will lose even more seats in Congress than a president's party typically does at the halfway point in his term.
Voting on an immigration bill in a lame-duck session has some advantages in proponents' eyes. Outgoing members of Congress would have little reason to fear backing a controversial bill. And those who won might be more likely to support it, since they wouldn't have to face voters for another two years — when Obama is up for reelection and likely to draw progressives to the polls.
In addition, if Republicans make major gains in November, an immigration overhaul could be impossible in 2011 or 2012.
(IF EVER THERE WAS A REASON TO GET OUT THE VOTE, THIS IS IT!)
1 comment:
WTF!
There isn't a country in the world that even talks about doing the kind of knuckle headed dumbness the big MEATHEAD in D.C. is talking about! What the hell won't the anointed one try to get votes? Just try sneaking into Mexico and see where your ass ends up! WE ARE BEING INVADED PEOPLE!Round em up in cattle trucks for all I care and ship em HOME! For you out there that adore him,can he really walk on water?????
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