We dodged a bullet with stopping of the amnesty bill last week, but Bush back from Europe is going to pull out all the stops in an effort to destroy America by strong-arming the Repubs that listened to their constituency and voted against this bill.

Make no mistake, folks, this is most damaging legislation for whites since the 1960's civil rights bills. It will dramatically shift the demographics of the US.

Some 80 million Mexicans (including those from chain migration) will cost the treasury 2.5 trillion dollars ABOVE what they give back in taxes (from the Heritage Foundation). They will all be eligible for welfare and entitlement programs (already going broke).

Our kids will pay the price dearly while Bush rides off into the sunset to his ample pension and kickbacks from corporations.

Bush talks of "family values" when discussing amnesty. What about families that are legally here Bush you idiot! These people are breaking US law. It is your job to enforce the law. Do your goddamn job!

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1631758,00.html

It's indicative of how very badly President Bush needs a victory — any victory — that he plans to make a rare trip to Capitol Hill Tuesday afternoon to attend a weekly Republican luncheon. There, he will make a personal appeal to senators on behalf of his bipartisan immigration reform bill, the progress of which came to a sudden and surprising halt late Thursday night after a failed attempt to bring the legislation to a vote. While Bush has previously leaned on Vice President Cheney to make these kinds of congressional entreaties (the President last sat in on a Senate policy lunch in 2002), either Bush's desperation or the VP's lack of enthusiasm for the measure — or quite possibly both — has forced his hand.

The bill — which includes provisions for increasing border security, a temporary worker program, and a path towards legalizing the nation's approximately 12 million illegal immigrants — is a key component of Bush's domestic agenda for his final year and a half in office. It was pulled from the floor Thursday after almost two weeks of debate when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, frustrated by the number of amendments brought forth by critics, called to end debate. The vote failed. "There's lots of support for this bill on the outside, " Reid said before departing. "The problem was on the inside of this Senate chamber. "

Regardless of whether it was division in the Senate, the way that Bush's typically loyal conservative base sparked a movement against the bill by harping on the word "amnesty, " or the fact that he was unable to personally lobby for the bill last week (as he was out of the country at the G—8 summit), the bill's collapse will be seen as a significant administration failure unless the President manages to sway Republican lawmakers at Tuesday's lunch. A GOP senior staffer close to the negotiations over reviving the immigration bill said that Republican supporters are pleased that President Bush is showing some belated commitment to the legislation by traveling up to Capitol Hill. "It's great, it's a big deal," says the staffer appreciatively. "What's he got to lose at this point? He's hit rock bottom."