Bush's Radio Address

Bush said nothing particularly surprising on Monday because he's Bush, but he did say a couple things that need explaining. I'll do it so White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan doesn't have to although he can Domenech my words. [I just invented a new verb]

America is a nation of immigrants, and we're also a nation of laws.

He forgot to add unless you're the dictator in which case there are no laws.

For decades, many illegal immigrants were released back into society soon after they were caught, because we did not have enough detention space. So we're adding more beds so we can hold the people we catch, and we're reducing the time it takes to send them back home.

Actually he meant we needed a new way to allow Halliburton to suckle at the government teat so he hired them to build a few new gulags to hold these brown skinned threats to the American way of life. Is it Bush's idea to lock up everyone he finds problematic?

Besides that, we have catch and release laws for fishing. Yeah, the picture makes sense now doesn't it?

You mean what's good enough for a trout isn't good enough for aliens? Seems rather unfair to me.

This [guest worker] program would create a legal way to match willing foreign workers with willing American employers to fill jobs that Americans will not do.

He's saying we need this guest worker program because we can't get away with just enslaving people to do these jobs. It could, however, be argued that illegal aliens are enslaved because they can't demand good wages because they can't risk exposure.