Crossing Over: Bush's Other Battle

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Crossing Over: Bush's Other Battle
He hopes his guest-worker plan will fill jobs and build the party. But is the GOP onboard?

Guillermo Arias / AP
A thorny matter: Bush and many in the GOP disagree on immigration
By Holly Bailey and Daren Briscoe
NewsweekFeb. 7 issue - Rep. Tom Tancredo was stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on his way to the Capitol one Friday morning in April 2002 when his cell phone rang. Though the caller ID read unidentified, Tancredo had no trouble recognizing the voice on the other end of the line: it was White House adviser Karl Rove, and he was seething. The congressman had been quoted in that morning's Washington Times attacking George W. Bush's immigration plan, which he warned could be an "open door" for illegal immigrants and a national-security risk. As Tancredo remembers it, Rove screamed at him for more than 20 minutes, accusing him of disloyalty to his party and the president in the wake of 9/11. The conversation grew so heated that Tancredo had to pull over. As the congressman recalls, Rove ended the call with a warning that Tancredo should "never darken the steps of the White House again." (The White House disputes Rove's comment.)

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Well the Republicans have a little problem with just being a yes man to rove!!! LOL!!!