First impression report card (haven't read transcript):
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LOL! That's what I say sometimes when I read some of the amnesty articles WTF!
GW said emphatically tonight
. read my lips (OK, my post)
No Amnesty.
I know, and Bush knows, that his duty is to deflect into more productive and effective channels the demands of the citizenry for a more robust social safety net, in ways that enhance the discipline of the market place, and retard the dead hand of centralized command bureaucracy, and make more benign, that which in less capable and more strident hands, could turn malignant.
Yes, his anmesty proposal is a risky scheme, as is effectively doing nothing a risky scheme, which is the only real political alternative. We shall have to see how Bush reacts to the details of the pushing and shoving on this issue, since on this issue, details really do matter. But as you and I both agree, the proposal is not likely to get anywhere, certainly this year, and probably thereafter. The status quo will triumph, to effects that you think are far more sinister than I do. And so it goes.