Conservatives down on Bush over immigration
The latest poll from ABC News re: the President's job approval takes a look at how he's viewed by conservatives in reference to how he's handling the immigration issue. The numbers aren't good.
President Bush's immigration reform package has badly damaged his ratings on the issue from his core supporters, with his approval rating for handling immigration plummeting among Republicans and conservatives.
Fewer than half of Republicans, 45 percent in this ABC News/Washington Post poll, now approve of how Bush is handling immigration, down from 61 percent in April — that's a 16-point drop in six weeks. Just 35 percent of conservatives approve, down from 48 percent.
This marks one of the few times in his presidency Bush has received less than 50 percent approval from members of his own party on any issue in an ABC/Post poll. On handling the Iraq War, for comparison, he's never gone below 62 percent approval from Republicans.
Conservatives are talking, but is the White House listening?
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CBO vs. Heritage Foundation?
Hmmmm. Lets see...Congressional Budget Office vs. the Heritage Foundation....(http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/index.cfm). Who should conservatives believe?? What to do, what to do...
funny you just wrote this
The Congressional Budget Office just released a report yesterday on the Senate immigration bill. Here are the results.
"The analysis found that over the next decade, newly legalized immigrants and guest workers would generate $48 billion in additional tax and Social Security revenues, while using about $23 billion worth of tax credits and social services. Thus, the newly legal immigrant population would contribute a net of about $26 billion over the decade, the report said."
Here is the full story.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/06/05/fiscal_lift_burden...