Bush opposes English as national language: Gonzales (AG says Bush supports 'English-Plus' concept)

Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 5/19/06 | Dan Whitcomb

[trubluolyguy]

The man is just NOT a conservative. Even "English Only" must be watered down.

[Doohickey]

You're right. The Attorney General of the United States is just a low-grade lackey with no direct knowledge of what the President thinks or doesn't think.

[eastsider]

Languages have no hold on him.

Neither do borders.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

LOL. No. Someone, somewhere said that GWB has plans to tear up the Constitution, ban the American flag and have the American Southwest given back to Mexico.

I love the absurd hyperbole on FR by the Borderbots.

[B Knotts]

So, do you think Reuters just made up the whole thing?

[trubluolyguy]

It was beautiful. In a sad way. Reminded me unfortunately of 1991.

[Smartass]

Yes it has been disappointing, but remember, nothing has been finalized until the House and Senate hugs, kisses, and makes up, then sends their Gum Drops to GWB for signing, or vetoing. Everyone in Washington is feeling the intense heat. After it's all done, will be the time for overall performance measurement/ratings.

 

[trisham]

I vote for Yiddish to be the official language.

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That's pure narishkayt.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

LOL. The President who put his presidency on the line to protect the people of this country wants to sell it down the river. /s LOL.

[Junior_G]

Languages have no hold on him.

Neither do borders

The poison of political correctness has reached the top of the Republican food chain.

[luvbach1]

Linguistic imprecision is part of Bush's problem. He has wordsmiths at the ready to remedy that, but apparently he doesn't use them.

[trubluolyguy]

A lot of politicians are bilingual these days

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I don't care what they do in their bedrooms, they should quit the hispandering


(/sarc)

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

troll alert!

[Pearls Before Swine]

Neither do borders.

No kidding.

[luvbach1]

"which is no more than common sense"

[mwp99]

He governs from his heart.

Perhaps he should govern from his head, instead.

[BW2221]

"Why is it after 200+ years of being a Nation that we want to now have an official language? We survived Germans, Dutch, Swedish, Italian etc with English intact, so why cant we survive Spanish?"

If I remember correctly, the U.S. Government never printed forms in Germen, Dutch, Swedish, Italian, etc. Also, I don't remember having 12 million German or Italian illegals at any one time.

[Sir Gawain]

[tobyhill]

Our forefathers never wanted a national language or they would have added it in the constitution but they did want it as a preferred language. A preferred English status has a better chance in court than making it a national language because some judge could rule that it interferes with the 1st amendment.

[luvbach1]

It's Spanglish.