Now Bush says 'I should have -- should have argued for immigration reform'

[langagadu]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/bush.legacy/index.html

[go_guy123]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/bush.legacy/index.html

He did argue. The president doesn't pass immigration bills. Its the congress and senate that pass immigration bills.

[champu]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/15/bush.legacy/index.html

He did but GOP was not interested enough...

[Better_Days]

He did argue. The president doesn't pass immigration bills. Its the congress and senate that pass immigration bills.

You may have forgotten the climate of those days. GOP had just trounched the Democrats and Bush was making tall claims about "political capital" he was going to spend to privatize Social Security.

He lost the Social Security fight and when the time came to immigration, he had already beeen weakened to push his own party.

Had he gone for immigration reform rather than Social Security, he might have gotten it passed. This might have prevented the mass hispanic exodus from GOP.

Could have, should have and would have :)

[Tito_ortiz]

He meant, sooner.

[ItIsNotFunny]

He did but GOP was not interested enough...

Whats happening here? Pappu is Hritik and Champu is Govinda!

[anai]

Here's a chance to make sure we don't end up listening to Obama eight years from now saying that he "should have argued for immigration reform, but didn't."

Please go to
http://citizensbriefingbook.change.gov/ideas/viewIdea.apexp?id=087800000004wel&srPos=0&srKp=087

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