'He doesn't get it'

The following story took me a bit "off guard" and actually shocked me a bit.


It seems that the senior republican representitive on the House Judiciary Commitee is going up against the "Commander in Chief", George W. Bush, in response to his plan for immigration reform as outlined in his prime time speech on monday evening.

And according to the article, the main thing that has him so riled is the fact that Bush is in essence offering "earned citizenship" for those illigal immigrants who have been in the country for a while.
He likens it to amnesty.

James Sensebnrenner is usually at the forefront in rallying to the President's and the Whitehouse's causes, so to see him so completely straying from that position is a little strange to me.

In a nutsehell, Sensenbrenner feels that Bush's plan isnt tough on enough on illigal aliens and he feels that Bush is offereing "amnesty" to the illigal's that are already in the country and that the plan as such goes against what the "house" crafted in their bill on illigal immigration.

A quote from the White house on the issue of amnesty:
The aide also took issue with Sensenbrenner's comments about amnesty.
"The president has repeatedly and forcefully rejected amnesty," White House spokesman Alex Conant said.
"Under the president's plan, you have to pay stiff fines, follow the law, stay employed, learn English, and after achieving all those things, you still go to the back of the line. That's not amnesty."

I clearly heard the president outline the above ways to deal with the illigal aliens myself, when viewing the president's speech on monday evening (see my post a few stories below) and as the quote above says.....it is clearly not "amnesty" that the president is offering. He is offering a way for this controversy to come to an end while trying to deal "effectively" with all sides of the issue.

I think (for once) that the president's proposal on this issues is positive and if all things go according to plan (which they rarely do though) that the immigrants who are both here and who wish to come to the United States in the future, follow the rules he outlined, then our country and the world at large will be in a much better position overall.
I applaud the president for his foreshight on this plan.

Read on below by clicking the link for the story as reported by the JS Online:
JS Online:'He doesn't get it'

A Good Thursday to all.