President takes straddling stance on national tongue

[struggle4progress]

Published May 20, 2006

BY SUZANNE GAMBOA

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The White House took both sides in a dispute over English being the national language Friday as a broad immigration bill moved toward a final Senate vote next week with one conservative predicting it will never become law ..

The Senate on Thursday approved an amendment sponsored by Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., that would declare English the national language. But it also approved an alternative proposal sponsored by Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., designating English the nation’s “common and unifying language.” Before the vote on the alternative, Inhofe warned his colleagues, “You can’t have it both ways.”

The White House seemed to. “We have supported both of these,” Snow said of the two amendments ..

“The president has never supported making English the national language,” Gonzales said, adding, “I don’t see the need to have legislation or a law that says English is going to be the national language” ..

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Mugwump must be havin a hard time sortin out the polls ..

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. There's something about that headline...

"President takes straddling stance on national tongue"... conjures up a pretty weird image.

[globalvillage]

3. Wait, it gets better.

Check out the ad in the bottom right.




Sorry for the bad screenshot. Don't know what happened there.


edit to add pic.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Oh, that's a keeper.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Ew

C'mon, I'll never get that image out of my brain, now.

[Salviati]

2. Hey now....

...this is starting to sound like something that we may actually be able to impeach him over...

(cue rimshot)

Seriously, why does it have to be that every headline needs to be "funny" or "cute"? Can't people write serious headlines anymore? I mean that would be a great title for a post on the internets, but as a newspaper headline I'd like something a bit more no-nonsense.

(turning into a curmudgon before my time...)

[freesqueeze]

6. Anyone else remember when Bush knew Spanish?

Back when he first ascended, he met with Presidente' Fox and I remember one commentator breathlessly claiming that this was the first time a US President held a meeting where the participants spoke a language other than English.

Now it is 'screw the meskins' time and the claim from the White House is that Bush doesn't know enough Spanish to sing the National Anthem. HUH?

Where they lying then? Are they lying now? Will they ever stop lying?