President Bush met with Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern on St. Patrick’s Day at the White House. In a discussion that ranged from air transport to the middle-east conflict, Bush took the opportunity to push his guest worker program. Ahern echoed the President's beliefs in a guest worker program saying that there are approximately 50-70,000 illegal Irish immigrants in the country and that this program will take them from the shadows and allow the light of a great nation to shine down upon them.
President Bush said Saturday "Irish Americans remind us of our heritage as a nation of immigrants and our duty to remain a welcoming society". President Bush would go on to point out that the Irish have a proud history in America and that nine of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Irish. In addition there are also over 34 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry.
In a gesture of goodwill and warm relations, Prime Minister Ahern presented President Bush with a bowl of shamrocks.
The president has been plagued by extremely negative approval ratings, and it's likely that over the same patties Day holiday that he wish some of his recent political scandals could have just gone away, and absent that maybe could just take a few minutes to lose him self in a nice mode of green beer.
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