Posted on 06/26/2007 2:14:40 PM PDT by mdittmar
STATEMENT BY THE PRESS SECRETARY
Earlier today, in speaking about comprehensive immigration reform, President Bush misspoke. He told a group, "You know, I've heard all the rhetoric - you've heard it, too - about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you've got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that." This has been construed as an assertion that comprehensive immigration reform legislation before the Senate offers amnesty to immigrants who came here illegally. That is the exact opposite of the president's long-held and often-stated position.
President Bush has noted repeatedly that the comprehensive reform he supports is not an amnesty bill. Amnesty means forgiving wrongdoing without imposing punishment. The immigration reforms passed in 1986 granted amnesty. The legislation under consideration this year does not. This measure imposes significant punishments on those who came to this country illegally between 1986 and the beginning of this year. In fact, the White House website addresses the myth that the measure is amnesty. For more, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/06/20070608-10.html.
| (in Freudian psychology) an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes. |
Wholeheartedly agree with you!! Ooops, Jorge...
I have now joined the ranks of those who make fun of the retard.
Jorge, it doesn’t matter what you call your sellout of America, it’s still a sellout.
Tony, I luv ya man, but you’re not fooling anyone with this drivel...
Its a disgrace.
OK, Tony, fine: Even if it’s not Merriam-Webster “amnesty,” it is far, far too lenient in its treatment of illegals. K? Am I allowed to say that? Or do I “not want what’s best for America”?
I never thought Id say this...”Bush sucks.”
Amnesty would be giving illegal aliens a fixed time in which to return to their nations with no penalty. After the amnesty period has expired, illegal aliens would be hunted down, prosecuted to the full extent of the law, pay for their crimes, and then returned to their nation.
I wonder if the IRS will start using this new defintion of amnesty?
hillary just got the ‘08 electiom handed to her on a platinum platter.
JMHO
“Amnesty means that you’ve got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that.”
B.S. “Amnesty” means to grant a general pardon. Nothing about paying a price period.
The “Price” Illegals are allegedly to pay cited in the “Bill” is even pardoned. READ IT.
Used to like him,
Not so anymore.
He has become a shill.
Amazing.
This warranted an immediate press release.
Yet on many other topics, the WH has taken days, even weeks to mount a response.
We see where this WH has its priorities.
Poor Tony Snow, I’ll never be able to take him seriously again.
And I have noted repeatedly that if you remove all the parts granting amnesty then I might favor a bill.
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