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Which brings us to the more controversial, and promising, part of Mr Bush's plan. To “match willing foreign workers with willing American employers to fill jobs that Americans will not do”, he proposes letting illegal aliens currently in America register for legal status. After paying fines and back taxes, they would then be allowed to work for a fixed period, after which they would have to return home. He insisted that this would not constitute an “amnesty”. Right-wingers said it did. “Now we've finally caught the president in a lie,” fumed Neal Boortz, a talk-radio host.

So if it isn't an amnesty then a Lewinsky isn't sex? My how our Presidents vocabulary differs from Merriam Webster. I didn't know Neal Bortz was a "right-winger", I didn't notice the author calling Ted Kennedy(a democrat from mass) a drunken socialist left winger who started this Immigration mess in 1965, could the author be biased?

After paying fines and back taxes, they would then be allowed to work for a fixed period, after which they would have to return home.

Bush's lie within a lie: The illegals already "have to return home". Yet no one makes them do so. So who's going to make them return home in the future? Bush?? ROTFLOL!!!

Or maybe Bush is saying, "let me kick this issue at least 3 years down the road, maybe my successor will have more of a spine than me, and will actually enforce something".

Of course, yet another prevarication here is the "fixed period". The only limit is how often (3 years) illegals, if they bother at all, have to get their Bush-visas stamped, but there's no total time being mentioned. What is it 3, 6, 9, 15, 30 years?