DEMS ALREADY ATACKING TONY SNOW: TALK IS CHEAP

Except if it’s coming from DNC Spokeswoman Karen Finney. Then it’s worthless. Catch this quote from this morning’s DNC press release:

“The American people should get ready for another Snow job from the Bush White House. Tony Snow represents more of the same, not the fresh start the Administration needed,” said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney. “This is an interdepartmental move from one part of the conservative infrastructure to another that allows a darling of the right-wing to deliver the same misleading message, cherry-picked information and spin to the American people. Josh Bolten’s plan for re-energizing the White House called for more happy talk and a better PR campaign for the same failed policies. Snow’s track record of delivering misleading rhetoric is a perfect fit for this Administration that refuses to change and has a problem telling the truth.”

[Publisher’s note: It really says something about Tony Snow and the Dems who are perceiving him as such a threat. After all, they’re already publicly attacking him for “misleading rhetoric” before the man has even uttered a word on behalf of the White House. Must be a sign of good things to come.]

In Ms. Finney’s world, Fox News Channel and talk radio are merely the propaganda arm of the Bush administration. Ms. Finney’s quote of “Snow’s track record of delivering misleading rhetoric is a perfect fit for this Administration that refuses to change and has a problem telling the truth” is bizarre. Then the press release notes all the times that Snow’s ‘misled the American people’. Here’s one of the things cited in the DNC’s propaganda sheet:

Snow Falsely Claimed That Intel Committee “Discovered” That Plame Recommended Wilson For The Niger Mission. In his July 15, 2005, column, Snow further claimed that the Senate Intelligence Committee, in its 2004 “Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community’s Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq,” “discovered that Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, did indeed recommend him for the trip” to Niger. But the committee did not officially conclude that she had been responsible for Wilson’s assignment.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between what Tony Snow said and what the Committee concluded. It’s just that the DNC wants to plant the seed that Tony Snow is just another Bush shill, something that anyone with a brain knows better than to believe.

Finney was just on Dayside. Finney did everything she could to not call Snow a liar, often saying that “this isn’t about changing flacks. It’s about this administration’s need to change policies.” Of course, she didn’t say which policies needed changing. I’m presuming that she’d change every Bush policy. The reality is that Ms. Finney’s and the DNC’s rhetoric is transparently absurd. It’s typical of their brain-dead propaganda.

At the end of the day, that’s what will drive people into the Republican Party. People that voted against Kerry and Gore hated their talking down to them. This DNC diatribe is just the latest DNC attempt to talk down to the American people.

Insulting the collective American intelligence is a sin that Democrats won’t be forgiven for.

A WHITE HOUSE BETRAYAL

By Michelle Malkin

S.O.S.

Contact the White House. Send a message: No amnesty. Clean our own house first.

The looming White House open-borders deal is the dictionary definition of amnesty.

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It's here. The bipartisan amnesty disaster is coming, as I have warned many times. I promise you: This is not going to be forgotten (via the Washington Times):

President Bush and a group of senators yesterday reached general agreement on an immigration bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for many illegal aliens.

But left out of the closed-door White House meeting were senators who oppose a path to citizenship. The meeting even snubbed two men who had been considered allies of Mr. Bush on immigration -- Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and chairman of the immigration subcommittee, and Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican.

Mr. Bush in brief remarks to the press said there was agreement to get "a bill that does not grant automatic amnesty to people, but a bill that says, somebody who is working here on a legal basis has the right to get in line to become a citizen." But senators, speaking afterward, said Mr. Bush was far more specific in the meeting.

"There was a pretty good consensus that what we have put into the Hagel-Martinez proposal here is the right way to go," said Sen. Mel Martinez, Florida Republican. "I think he was very clear [on] pathway to citizenship, so long as it goes to the back of the line, and he even opened the door here for something we've haggled back and forth on, that you can shrink the time for people to become citizens by simply enlarging the number of green cards."

And Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, said Mr. Bush "endorsed the concept of an earned citizenship."

That would represent a substantial change on the part of the Bush administration, which just last year said it opposed a path to citizenship for those currently here illegally.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the Senate Judiciary Committee in October the administration didn't support "a path through which they can get their permanent residence or citizenship," and Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao echoed that: "We feel that a pathway to citizenship would reward those who have violated our laws."

Read their lips: No new amnesty. Uh-huh.

The Hagel-Martinez bill would divide illegal aliens into three groups. Most of those who have been in the country for more than five years would be granted access to citizenship, those here more than two years but less than five years would have to go home first but would also be eligible for citizenship, while those here two years or less would not have a path.

Even as Mr. Bush is moving in that direction, the House majority leader yesterday rejected it.

"This idea that was being kicked around the Senate about providing some sort of amnesty for those who have been here five years or more, I just think it was a very big mistake," House Majority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said yesterday. "You are just inviting more people to come." Still, the senators in yesterday's meeting were thrilled with where the debate is, and the direction Mr. Bush is headed.

Oh, yes, the bipartisan open-borders collaborators are thrilled:

Hee-haw.

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Who will clean up the mess at DHS?

If you loved the fraud that resulted after the 1986 mass amnesty, wait 'til you see what's coming next.