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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2271

In an attempt to change the terms of the debate over the Mark Foley scandal, President George W. Bush said today that the Foley matter "only reaffirms my belief that we must crack down on illegal immigration.

Mr. Bush's decision to link the Foley scandal with the issue of illegal immigration struck some in Washington as unorthodox, but the president remained resolute that America's immigration crisis, and not the behavior of Mr. Foley, was the true root cause of the scandal.

"The question we need to be asking ourselves is not if Mark Foley behaved improperly," Mr. Bush said. "The question we need to ask is, were these congressional pages in our country legally?"

Mr. Bush said he would ask Congress to appropriate $84 million to investigate the legal status of all congressional pages at once: "What we may be seeing is an orchestrated attempt by 16-year-old boys with hot bodies to swarm into our country and tempt our lawmakers."

Minutes after the president's remarks, which Mr. Bush made at a Boys Club of America luncheon in Washington, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert praised the president for "pointing the finger at the true culprits in this case."

"It's not hard for a bunch of scheming young men with hot bodies to corrupt an older man through no fault of his own," Mr. Hastert says. "As a former high school wrestling coach, I speak from experience."

Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of the new book "The Republican Playbook," to be published October 2006. To find out more about Andy Borowitz and read his past columns, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20061012/cm_uc_crabox/andy_borowitz20061012

When I started reading this, I was thinking what does Foley have to do with illegal immigration. Shocked

Had Bush lost his mind? Shocked

Then I realized this was a joke.

Andy51 · Joined: 05 Jul 2006 Posts: 199 Location: Washington state

That was a good one. I read Andy's stuff alot, and he is really good at what he does! Laughing

Of course it wouldn't surprise me at all for Bush to say something like this, change the subject, he does it all the time so one never really knows! Confused

Take care.

Andy

noillegalimmigrationannie · Joined: 15 Aug 2006 Posts: 11