June 12, 2007 05:56 AM UTC

Bush consults Salazar, Kennedy and Kyl on immigration

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• by: Another skeptic

Our senator from Mexico has his hands all over
Bush’s efforts to save the bill, S 1348.

Why aren’t Denver’s papers digging into this, asking why and how and what would Salazar advise the president to do?

From the Washington Post:

Flying back from Europe yesterday, Bush placed calls to three of the deal’s architects — Kennedy, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) — to discuss the legislation, according to White House communications chief Kevin F. Sullivan.

Sullivan said the president will also discuss the issue with business allies on Thursday.

“It just feels like we’re closer than you might think,” he said.

Privately, White House officials are continuing to put pressure on Reid, saying that it is the majority leader, not the president, who controls what happens on the Senate floor and ridiculing his decision to move to debate over confidence in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.

“I, frankly, find it interesting that a so-called important subject they need to get to would be to pass a political resolution on my attorney general that’s going to have no bearing on whether he serves in office or not,” Bush said.

But Sessions counseled the president to give the issue a rest.

“Let this thing cool down and come up with a real enforceable system that will reduce illegality,” he said. “I don’t see any groundswell for this to come back up.”