This explains the immigration feud

[AValdoux]

This was from today's press briefing when Puffy was asked a general question about the status of the immigration bill.

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MR. McCLELLAN: Got plenty of time. I'm not rushing off. The President last week spoke about the promising agreement that was reached by a bipartisan group of senators on comprehensive legislation. But you have the Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid using procedural gimmicks to prevent the will of the American people from being heard. The American people have said, we want comprehensive immigration reform. We want to see our borders strengthened, which we're acting to do, and the American people, I think, have clearly said that if we're going to fix this system, you've got to have a guest worker element to that, as the President has called for.

So the Senate Minority Leader is signal-handedly using procedural gimmicks to thwart the will of the American people and stop this legislation from moving forward -- comprehensive legislation. There is a bipartisan agreement. He is stopping the will of a bipartisan group of senators from moving forward on legislation that is important and that will help us fix our immigration system.

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I think this was the plan from the beginning. Fire up the racist then blame congress's failure on the Democrats. Either way they voted, the GOP can play this both ways in their respective districts. They never planned on passing anything. It is the wedge issue of 2006. The protest, I think, are just frosting on top for them. They scared the hell out of the locals. I wouldn't be surprised if GOP operatives weren't the people handing out the Mexican flags.


AValdoux

I couldn't post a link to the briefing because my computer is doing tax work and I can't open another window.