{"id":7468,"date":"2006-05-20T10:42:50","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T14:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=7468"},"modified":"2006-05-20T10:42:50","modified_gmt":"2006-05-20T14:42:50","slug":"maybe-they-were-against-a-national-language-before-they-were-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/maybe-they-were-against-a-national-language-before-they-were-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Maybe they were against a &#8216;national language&#8217; before they were for it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish the Bush gang could <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20060520\/pl_nm\/usa_immigration_gonzales_dc;_ylt=AiT5D.cCgGrx4f75nEqXO.Ks0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-\">keep its story straight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[tag]President[\/tag] George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag] has long opposed making [tag]English[\/tag] the country&#8217;s [tag]national language[\/tag], Attorney General [tag]Alberto Gonzales[\/tag] said on Friday, a day after the Senate voted to do so, but the White House said later Gonzales had got caught in a &#8220;[tag]linguistic snare[\/tag].&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales did not directly address Bush&#8217;s position on the controversial amendment because the Senate has not yet voted on the whole bill. But he said that Bush has in the past rejected such efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president has never supported making English the national language,&#8221; Gonzales said after meeting with state and local officials in Texas to discuss cooperation on enforcement of immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>He said Bush has instead long supported a concept called &#8220;English-Plus,&#8221; believing that it was good to be proficient in more than one language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wrong, said White House Press Secretary [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag], who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/05\/20060519.html\">told reporters<\/a> that the president supported the Senate effort to declare English the &#8220;national language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hoping to explain the conflict, spokesperson Dana Perino said Gonzales &#8220;got caught in a linguistic snare,&#8221; and was referring to Bush&#8217;s opposition to an &#8220;[tag]official[\/tag]&#8221; language, not a &#8220;national&#8221; language. Apparently, the whole issue a little too convoluted for the Bush gang.<\/p>\n<p>Tell you what. Maybe after the president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/76886\/\">gets a firm grasp<\/a> on the language, Republicans can get back to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish the Bush gang could keep its story straight. [tag]President[\/tag] George W. [tag]Bush[\/tag] has long opposed making [tag]English[\/tag] the country&#8217;s [tag]national language[\/tag], Attorney General [tag]Alberto Gonzales[\/tag] said on Friday, a day after the Senate voted to do so, but the White House said later Gonzales had got caught in a &#8220;[tag]linguistic snare[\/tag].&#8221; [&#8230;] Gonzales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}