Duncan Hunter 15' Fence 
Posted on 01/01/2006 5:11:01 PM PST by dennisw
Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.) recently announced that he would not seek re-election after serving 11 terms in Congress. His quiet announcement was barely covered in the national media, which is a real pity. His leadership, especially on issues of immigration and border security, will be sorely missed.
Consider, for example, the immigration bill recently passed by Congress with much sound and fury. This bill has only one idea: to muscle up on more enforcement along our borders. The sad fact is that we have already tried this. During the past 15 years, we have more than quadrupled the number of border patrol agents. We have invested billions in new security with only marginal success.
Kolbe, who said the bill "pretends we are doing something to secure our border when in fact we are doing nothing except throw words and money at the problem," was one of the few in Congress to have thought through the problem and develop a much more coherent approach. His candor and honest reflection made him unpopular to some, but his leadership and insights were exactly what the nation needed.
I met Jim Kolbe eight years ago when working on developing technology to improve border security along the Arizona-Mexico border. He had spent a great deal of time and research on immigration and border security, making him one of the most well-informed elected officials on these difficult subjects.
Kolbe understood that the border was a complex economic, social and international zone that requires a more comprehensive solution than the typical knee-jerk responses. Year after year, he introduced legislation that featured stronger border enforcement, a guest worker program, closer cooperation with Mexico and improved efficiencies for legal commerce. The legislation never passed.
President Bush has now wisely taken a similar position.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Boy Kolbe had this fool from the Compost hornswoggled. He is a NAFTA/CFR Open Borders Loon. His house was broken into this summer by illegals. He writes language into BP/DHS laws preventing agressive enforcement of Immigration laws.
He is an open sodomizer, wants gay marriage.
He probably has a Mexican lover; and may be sick from HIV - the real reason he is resigning.
Takes money from Soros too.
Good Ridance to bad rubbish in the form of that RINO Rump Ranger posing as a patriot.
He probably has a Mexican lover...
I've posted the same LOL
Liberals back to their main argument of why we shouldn't do things like enforce the border: "It Doesn't work."
Would that they could come to the same conclusion about welfare and education spending! "It doesn't work"
He is flat out an open-borders activist.
Good riddance!
This RINO Rump Ranger is no loss at all!
Since the redstream is having a hard time getting full fledged RATS elected they are making due with RINO love. I am able to forgive Kolbe because he did do something right and very important : he voted to Impeach Clinton!
Here's a good one. I'm still not sure what sources can be posted.
Blocking Bush at the Border
By MIKE ALLEN
Posted Sunday, Jan. 01, 2006
Before heading to Congress, Republican J.D. Hayworth of Arizona was a sportscaster with a signature home-run call: "It's vapor!" Now the conservative Hayworth, 47, is making a similar charge about President Bush's plan to tighten the border with Mexico and establish a limited guest-worker program. He is about to publish an anti-immigration manifesto, Whatever It Takes, that should rile up right-wing radio just as the White House was hoping to gain traction for a broad immigration-reform package.
In the book, due out January 16 from conservative publisher Regnery, Hayworth calls for deploying active-duty troops to the border and considering a "border security fence from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico." Hayworth is unlikely to please the West Wing with his assertion about a chat he had at a House Republican retreat in West Virginia a year ago with White House senior adviser Karl Rove. When Hayworth criticized an Administration overture to Mexico, he writes, "Rove became somewhat exasperated and spluttered, 'You just don't want to help brown people, do you?'" A White House official says Rove recalls the conversation, in which he encouraged Hayworth to be sensitive to all citizens, but said the quote is inaccurate.
Hayworth, who says Rove may have been joking, contends that Bush's plan to confer temporary legal status on Mexicans working in the U.S. amounts to "false compassion." But Senator John McCain plans to push hard this winter for such a program. House Republican leaders say they might accept one if immigrants had to return home to apply for temporary work permits. Hayworth tells TIME that even that would be too lenient, designed to appease "left-wing grievance mongers" and businesses that want cheap labor. Bush may have sounded as if he were running for sheriff during his recent border visits, but to convince the likes of Hayworth, he'll have to talk a lot tougher.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C1145256%2C00.html
Duncan Hunter 15' Fence
Isn't that Jim Quolbe, the Queer, they're writing about?
By the tone of the article, I'd have thought it was someone with morals, and a backbone...
ping
Nobody but Barney Frank is sad, don't let the doorknob get hung up in your worn out expanded back side on the way out.
A photo of Congressman Jim Kolbe’s Sierra Vista (Arizona) office on the evening of Saturday, September 28, 2003, has been released on the web. The 22 bags of trash were collected by citizens at a well known Illegal Alien campsite in Cochise County, Arizona , and then delivered to the congressman’s office Sunday night.
From The Federal Observer
And what's that we see collected in the "trash" on the bottom left of the photo, Mr. Kolbe? An article expressing an illegal "immigrant's" profound gratitude towards the US?
Good riddance.
Kolbe has been in Congress for 20 years. He hasn't been serving Arizona voters with his pro-illegal immigration stance. I predict he won't go "home". His home is DC with the other hacks, where he'll resurface as a lobbyist for business interests that employee illegal immigrants
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Support our Minutemen Patriots!
Be Ever Vigilant ~ Bump!
If Bush is at all concerned about his "legacy", he should think hard about this amnesty he wants (remember, we were promised no more amnesties), or he will go down in history as the American president who allowed, actually encouraged, the invasion of America without firing a shot in our defense.
The historians will tell all about Bush's importation of poverty, disease, ignorance and dependence which was forced upon America.
His globalist RINO and Democrat buddies who agree with him won't be spared either.
The time has come for a strong third party that will actually represent American citizens. The "two" party system has failed us.
If I didn't realize this was all MSM-speak, I wouldn't know what to say.
I did get a good laugh out of Kolde's spearheading of "developing new technologies" for controlling the borders, however. Strangely, I had never considered hollaring out "Nelly bar the gate, c'mon over!" to be some sort of new technology.
In other news, I had the distinct pleasure of having a big truck with a Randy Graf sign in the back window just outside my place of work all day.
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