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Bush leaves Europe for trouble back home

Bush leaves Europe for trouble back home

11.6.2007


SOFIA, Bulgaria — President Bush braced for problems at home Monday with the cheers from his European trip still ringing in his ears.

He pledged to resurrect his derailed immigration bill in the Senate — "I'll see you at the bill signing," he declared — and dismissed Democrats' effort to hold a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a waste of time.
"I'll make the determination if I think he's effective or not," Bush said of Gonzales, a member of his inner circle from Texas.
Returning to Washington Monday night, Bush said he would be on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to lobby Republican senators to support a plan that would give up to 12 million illegal immigrants a pathway to legal status.
En route aboard Air Force One, he phoned three senators to discuss how it could be revived: Sens. Ken Salazar, D-Colo.; Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.

"He thanked all of them for their leadership and their hard work. He underscored his commitment to getting the bill done soon," said deputy White House press secretary Dana Perino.
"I believe we can get it done," the president said before he left Bulgaria.

Bulgaria, once the most loyal Soviet ally during the Cold War but now an American friend, was Bush's last stop on a six-country journey. Thousands of Bulgarians lined the cobblestoned main street through Nevsky Square as Bush and President Georgi Parvanov watched troops goose-stepping to military music. Bush prayed before a wreath at an eternal flame that marks Bulgaria's tomb of the unknown soldier.

With 1 1/2 years left in his term, Bush returns home with dismal poll ratings, declining influence and an unpopular war in Iraq in its fifth year. The political world already is turning to the 2008 presidential race.
A battle over Gonzales' future, simmering for weeks, moved to a new stage with Senate Democrats pressing for a no-confidence vote the attorney general told Congress repeatedly he could not recall key details in the firing of eight U.S. prosecutors.

The president said the Senate effort was irrelevant.
"That's going to have no bearing on whether he serves in office or not," Bush said at a news conference with Parvanov.
An overhaul of the nation's ineffective immigration laws represents Bush's best hope for a major legislative achievement, because earlier efforts to revamp Social Security, rewrite the tax code and extend expiring tax cuts are apparently doomed.

The immigration bill was put aside last week after the Senate twice refused Democratic efforts to cut off debate. The president has been criticized for not doing enough for the bill, which is bitterly opposed by many conservatives in his party.
"The political process sometimes isn't pretty to look at," the president said. "There's two steps forward, one step back. ... I'm going to work with those who are focused on getting an immigration bill done and start taking some steps forward again."

Before Bulgaria, Bush's trip took him to the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland, Italy and Albania.
Bush returned home with unfinished business with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who objects to a U.S. missile shield for Europe and has proposed an alternative that the White House seems unlikely to embrace. Bush and Putin will meet in Kennebunkport, Maine, on July 1-2 to try to halt the slide in U.S.-Russian relations.
Bulgaria's leaders worry that the rocket shield would not cover southeastern parts of Europe, including their own country. Bulgaria also feels caught in the middle between Washington and Moscow, upon which it is almost entirely dependent for energy supplies.

"Bulgaria should not have to choose between the friendship between the U.S. and the friendship with Russia," Parvanov said.
Bush said the missile defense system is intended to deal with long-range missiles, and that there are other missile systems that would deal with intermediate-range rockets that might threaten Bulgaria.
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By TERENCE HUNT AP White House Correspondent
Associated Press writer William J. Kole in Sofia contributed to this report
© 2007 The Associated Press


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