bush patrol

From an article in today's Globe about how Bush may not enforce stricter passport controls at borders because it inconveniences the 80% of Americans who don't have 'em:

"When I first read that in the newspaper about the need to have passports, particularly the day crossings that take place, about a million, for instance, in the state of Texas, I said, 'What's going on here?"' Bush said when asked about the new rules.

"I thought there was a better way to expedite the legal flow of traffic and people. If people have to have a passport, it's going to disrupt the honest flow of traffic. I think there's some flexibility in the law, and that's what we're checking out right now."

Flexibility in the law? What, like for white people? if you pronounce it "eye-rack", do you get waved through?

How can you tell if you're in the dishonest flow? you know, the part that shouldn't be expedited?

And um, is that where he gets his information about government policies -- from reading a newspaper? Actually, I'm slightly more shocked that his staff let him near one of those things.