Tony Snowjob, Bush's Baghdad Bob

TONY SNOWJOB WANTS YOU TO BELIEVE IN AMNESTY

Here's a good one from the Examiner:

The White House on Friday said a Senate bill that would grant legal status to illegal immigrants is analogous to a traffic law that allows a speeder to pay a fine and continue driving. "If you had a traffic ticket and you paid it, you're not forever a speeder, are you?" White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said in response to questions from The Examiner.

"So the fact is, you have paid your debt to society," he added. "And we have come up with a way to make sure that the debt to society gets paid. Then you move forward."

The "traffic ticket" analogy raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill, where many House Republicans regard illegal immigration as a grave crime.

"I don't know if Tony meant to trivialize it or not," said Will Adams, spokesman for Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. "But it's certainly misleading."

"The penalty for a speeding ticket is a fine," he added. "The penalty for being here illegally is being removed from this country. But the president doesn't want illegal aliens to go home."

Snow emphasized that illegals would have to pay fines, learn English and wait years for a chance at full citizenship. But Adams called that "a slap on the hand" compared to deportation.

"Here's a more apt analogy," he said. "You get stopped for speeding, and you say to the cop: "Hey listen, you're about to give me a $300 ticket. How about we make it 20 bucks and just call it even?"

Snow predicted that House Republicans would eventually drop their opposition to the Senate bill, which passed Thursday. The bill, which includes a guest worker program that would grant legal status to aliens, is headed to a conference committee for possible reconciliation with a House bill aimed at beefing up border security.

Snow suggested the guest worker program could be sold to even ardent opponents like Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

"Chairman Sensenbrenner, who's got some real problems with various aspects, has said publicly that the temporary worker program has merit," Snow said.

"There are areas in which members of the House are going to agree with the president," he added. "I certainly don't want to be speaking for Chairman Sensenbrenner, but the fact is, you know politics."

But Sensenbrenner appeared unmoved.

"What's going on now, in calling it a pathway to citizenship or earned legalization, is not honest because it is amnesty," he said at a news conference.

Isn't it amazing that Tony Snow would offer a half-baked analogy like the speeding ticket, when before he became the Bush propaganda minister he would have laughed at such a pathetic comparison.

For Tony's further embarassment let's run this analogy all the way through. A legal immigrant is stopped for speeding, he pays his fine and goes about his business. An illegal invader is stopped for speeding, he has no license, he has no insurance, he has a stolen social security number and he will probably never show up to pay his fines, if he even gets a ticket. Tony Snowjob, there is no comparison between a legal, licensed driver and an illegal who has broken several laws. To imply they are the same is unworthy of you and insulting to your audience.

Soon, we will see Snow wearing a beret and standing at the border saying, "Illegals, there are no illegals, we have driven them all away. They are not even within a hundred miles of America."

Yes, Tony, you sound as foolish as Baghdad Bob.