Start Kissing Your Congress' Ass Mr. President

If Bush wants success in his second term, he will have to be more flexible with his Republican dominated legislature than his not so objective cabinet of loyalists. They want a chunk of the power, Mr. President, now that they have control of the legislature for the time being. Though now that they are the majority they can't blame the Democrats for shortfallings and such.

And you know what, on one issue I definitely agree with them that you should take action on... (and why am I writing this as though he were actually reading it??)

After essentially rubber-stamping much of Bush's first-term agenda, many House and Senate Republicans plan to assert themselves more forcefully to put their mark on domestic policy in the new year, according to several lawmakers.
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But the president's most nettlesome intra-party issue in early 2005 may be immigration, lawmakers said. Bush's goal of granting guest-worker status to large numbers of undocumented immigrants is about to collide head-on with House Republicans' push to crack down on illegal immigrants, in part by denying them driver's licenses.

Don't reward them for illegal immigration and stealing of jobs that legal citizens are having trouble finding (even though for a business leader they are the best to hire -- much less pay needed for them than American workers!)

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (Ill.) salvaged the intelligence legislation this month only by telling GOP colleagues that the White House has vowed to allow tough immigration restrictions, including the driver's license proposal, that were removed from the measure to accompany the first "must-pass" legislation of 2005.

"If the president wants to maintain credibility with House Republicans, he has to be engaged and willing to pass immigration reform that conservatives want," said Rep. Ray LaHood (Ill.), one of 57 House Republicans who voted against the intelligence bill Bush just signed into law. "If he does that, he will build a bridge" that could open the way to far-reaching changes to Social Security, the tax code and other policies, LaHood said. "If he's missing in action on that issue, he's going to have big problems."
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