White House compares illegal immigration to speeding
Sniff Note: Looks like I’m going to impose a moratorium on myself for posting any more shit on illegal Mexican shit for awhile.
The more I read the more pissed off I get.
After reading this fucken article and seeing just how cavalier the White House and the Bush Administration is treating this I am so ready for Bush to get his tired ass out of office I don’t know what to do.
A traffic ticket!? Tony Snow needs to be bitch slapped.
The next Republican candidate better speak up on this immigration issue and they better speak firmly and convincingly. Screw John McCain and his illegal immigrant pimping ass.
Bush’s credibility on this issue as well as the Republican Senators are ZERO with me.
Bunch of punk asses.
Article By Bill Sammon, The Examiner
WASHINGTON - The White House on Friday said a Senate bill that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants is analogous to a traffic law that allows a speeder to pay a fine and continue driving.”If you had a traffic ticket and you paid it, you’re not forever a speeder, are you?” White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in response to questions from The Examiner.”So the fact is, you have paid your debt to society,” he added. “And we have come up with a way to make sure that the debt to society gets paid. Then you move forward.”The “traffic ticket” analogy raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill, where many House Republicans regard illegal immigration as a grave crime.”I don’t know if Tony meant to trivialize it or not,” said Will Adams, spokesman for Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. “But it’s certainly misleading.”"The penalty for a speeding ticket is a fine,” he added. “The penalty for being here illegally is being removed from this country. But the president doesn’t want illegal aliens to go home.”Snow emphasized that illegals would have to pay fines, learn English and wait years for a chance at full citizenship. But Adams called that “a slap on the hand” compared to deportation.”Here’s a more apt analogy,” he said. “You get stopped for speeding, and you say to the cop: “Hey listen, you’re about to give me a $300 ticket. How about we make it 20 bucks and just call it even?”Snow predicted that House Republicans would eventually drop their opposition to the Senate bill, which passed Thursday. The bill, which includes a guest worker program that would grant legal status to aliens, is headed to a conference committee for possible reconciliation with a House bill aimed at beefing up border security.Snow suggested the guest worker program could be sold to even ardent opponents like Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.”Chairman Sensenbrenner, who’s got some real problems with various aspects, has said publicly that the temporary worker program has merit,” Snow said.”There are areas in which members of the House are going to agree with the president,” he added. “I certainly don’t want to be speaking for Chairman Sensenbrenner, but the fact is, you know politics.”But Sensenbrenner appeared unmoved.”What’s going on now, in calling it a pathway to citizenship or earned legalization, is not honest because it is amnesty,” he said at a news conference.
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May 28th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
I share your disgust and anger over the way the President and some Republicans are handling this issue, Sniffer. I’m “seeing red” livid at this point. I’m not sure if they’ve just been in the Beltway way to long to see things reasonably, or if their arrogance has just grown to the point of no return. I’d like to
have a word or two with Tony Snow, as well, and he was always one of my favorites. GRRRR!
Neither of those two analogies work for me anyhow. I think a better analogy would be that you get pulled over for speeding and the cop discovers that you are driving not only without insurance, but without a license either. Maybe even in a stolen car. IMO, that is a bit more analogous to what kinds of offences we’re
talking about, and spinning it in such an innocuous manner is just plain dishonest.
May 29th, 2006 at 4:40 am
“I am so ready for Bush to get his tired ass out of office I don’t know what to do.”
I second that. My little bro and I were talking about that very thing today…in 2000, I was an ecstatic member of the GOP, having spent the prior (almost) 15 years working for the day when we’d have a GOP house, Senate, and Prez, the day when the Reaganite vision and the Contract with America could finally be implemented over the lamentations of liberals from sea to shining sea. It took about 2 years (and NCLB and the Medicare Drug Plan) for me to reach the depths of disappointment and walk away from the party.
Frankly, I thought the GOP was a party of serious adults would understood the true issues facing America. Today I just laugh when they come on TV and insist that putting illegals on a fast track to citizenship is anything other than amnesty for breaking the law, or when they claim to be serious about deficits and debt. Even the tax cuts I fully supported have paled, as the purpose of them was twofold - they were meant to allow people to keep their money and to control government spending - and the lack of implementation of the latter has canceled the former. If you give people back their money and then steal its value through inflation, what doth it profit a citizen?
The GOP had a once-in-my-lifetime opportunity to undo the damage of Democrats from Wilson to LBJ, and yet they have hijacked the foreign policy of the former and implemented the wildest domestic dreams of the latter. I am only surprised that Bush does not sit in a wheelchair when he delivers his weekly radio fireside chats .
I think the tired ass is not Bush’s but mine, and it pains me - truly - to hope that the GOP loses at least one house of Congress this fall. That it must be to the Democrats gives me no comfort - and I would never in my life vote for one - but it will provide plenty of material for late-night comics.
Bring on the bread. Bush and his GOP Clown Army have provided us circuses in plenty.
May 29th, 2006 at 5:52 am
Vox just said the same thing; he even used the same examples:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50415
But I swear I wrote mine first.
May 31st, 2006 at 5:56 pm
What you are all apparently realizing is what my mother taught me along with my ABC’s…. Politics is not about doing a good job; it’s about getting/staying powerful.
Her father was a Union Organizer for the Rail Roads, in the 1940’s, and a rabid Democrat. He went to his death believing that Republicans were evil and out to hurt “the little guy” (he used to SPIT at the TV when Nixon was on it). My mom was a Republican, because she was very conservative and had seen the under belly of Democrat politicians up close and personal. She taught me, and my own experience has born it out, that no matter how idealistic someone might be, the political system requires so much compromise that it utlimately corrupts almost anyone who enters into it for very long. Take that as a given, and couple it with the normal human need to protect one’s own turf, and you end up with a lot of people holding office who mainly serve their own self interests!