"I think we're looking like we may be able to dance this afternoon"...WTF?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

My apologies in advance to the "Harry Reid is GOD" segment of the audience. As happy as I am that Harry will be dancing this afternoon, this strikes me as one stupid fucking statement. Just my two cents worth.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate leaders on Thursday announced a bipartisan compromise on an overhaul of U.S. immigration laws, giving some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and creating a temporary worker program.

"I think we're looking like we may be able to dance this afternoon," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada told reporters.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, appeared with Reid and said "We have a great opportunity to deliver to the American people what they expect, what they deserve," a comprehensive border security and immigration reform bill.

The deal, which would include a temporary worker program backed by President George W. Bush, would allow illegal immigrants who have been in the United States more than five years a chance to become citizens if they meet a series of requirements and paid a fine. Other rules would apply to people less than five years.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&u=/nm/20060406/pl_nm/usa_immigration_dc_8

[Skinner]

1. Are you bothered specifically by the reference to dancing,

or are you bothered by the fact that he is expressing his support for a bipartisan compromise on immigration?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. I'd have to say I'm bothered by the way he said it...

If he said "I'd like to express my support for a bipartisan compromise on immigration"...even though I'm having a hard time seeing where the bipartisan compromise is...I'd basically take that as a politician doing his job and making a diplomatic, politically correct statement.

The dancing thing, however, hurts my ears and sounds like it came from a child. Like I said in the original post, that's just the way it hit me.

:patriot:

[Skinner]

5. Thanks for the clarification.

:thumbsup:

[Flirtus]

2. and a huge new agency

to determine how long five years is

[RufusEarl]

3. I for one don't believe that this new immigration law,

is what the american people want i believe it's what Bu$h wants. I still believe the democratic leadership has miss read the american people on this issue, and i believe it will hurt in November. As far as the comment by Sen. Reid, i think he could have been more statesman like in his comments.

[madfloridian]

6. Doesn't sound like much of a compromise, not the part I heard.

.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

7. I'm hoping someone will lay out the details of the compromise...

...because I missed it. It sounds to me as if Bush got exactly what he wanted, including the guest worker program.

By the way, our pals in FreepTown are going ballistic over this. That's one unhappy group of people.

[madfloridian]

11. That is exactly what I heard in the press conference.

Like Bush got his way, and the Democrats said it was a compromise.

[Stargleamer]

8. If Fitz indicts Bush we'll all be dancing this afternoon. . .

n/t

[rockymountaindem]

9. Maybe by "dance" he meant "negotiate" n/t

[ieoeja]

10. I think it is an excellent turn of phrase myself.

Especially coming from the side that puts the "party" in party politics.

Your complaint reminds me of William F. Buckley Jr's review of Clinton's first nomination acceptance speech. Buckley kept trying to turn the conversation to Clinton's use of profanity ("we got the shaft, and they got the gold mine") while everyone else around him rolled their eyes and ignored him. Of the pundits on that program, only Buckley saw "getting the shaft" as an unacceptable profanity in polite discourse.