[Sabertooth]

Ah yes, I see the tactic. You all are going to take "credit" for this, even though Bush has stated that there would be no blanket amnesty.

Your game is very transparent, IMHO.

Speaking of games Dane, your posts are among the most transparently dishonest on FR.

Time and again you play your "No Blanket Amnesty" schtick, usually as straw man, but this time as false dilemma. Who do you think you're kidding?

"No Blanket Amnesty" is nothing more than Bush Administration spin and damage control.

Let's look again at the subterfuge... Estimates of illegals currently squatting in the United States range from 8 million to 13 million. Let's take the low number. An Amnesty for 7.5 million ("undocumented," or "non-regular," or "uninspected," etc.) aliens could be granted, and Bush would still be technically not lying, because a "blanket amnesty" would be for all illegal colonistas..

President Bush's "No Blanket Amnesty" is a Clintonian promise in spirit, because it's an attempt to conceal his true goal, which is an Amnesty by another name (even more dishonesty) for millions of illegal aliens.

A promise of "no blanket amnesty" is an empty shell, as has been explained to you whenever you show up parroting the talking points.

[Dane]

Sabey, reply #33 is directed at you also.

[Howlin]

Well, since you have been shown to be WRONG once again about Bush, I see you had no other choice except to personally attack Dane.

So typical.

[angkor]

A promise of "no blanket amnesty" is an empty shell,

Yes, and the prima facie evidence of its dishonesty is the ramrodding of last week's 245(i); the purported "shock" that INS delivered a visa six months late (coupled with his campaign promises of 2000 to make the INS deliver its services in a timely fashion); Ashcroft's seeming surprise that the worst agency in the United States government - and one over which he has oversight duties - is not up to snuff; and the insane joke of discussing anything about immigration policy while ignoring the desperate - and I do mean desperate - straits of the INS.

There has not been a single remedy applied to INS and its problems since January 2001. Not one. But GWB is content to feed it with thousands and perhaps millions of additional cases while the agency implodes. Why? It makes no sense.

On this issue GWB is either (a) completely out of touch with reality or (b) lying through his teeth.