Bush set for immigration speech

WRIC News ^ | 5-14-06 | AP

[JustPiper]

BUSH SET FOR IMMIGRATION SPEECH WHITE HOUSE President Bush is getting set for a prime-time speech on immigration tomorrow night. Aides note the 8 p-m, Eastern Time, speech will be the president's first from the Oval Office that does not involve Iraq and the war on terrorism. And they say that reflects Bush's "passion" on immigration. He's speaking as the Senate is poised to clear a compromise measure including his idea for a guest worker program. However, a rival House bill is limited to a border crackdown, and meshing the two won't be easy. Stand Up For America !

"We have room for but one flag, the American flag...
We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."

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[JustPiper]

He was speaking on Bush has done more on this illegal issue than anyone blah-blah but it was short

[antceecee]

They are fawning over a constituency that cannot legally vote! What does that tell you.... they ARE voting and our Congresscritters know it, condone it and are vying for their support.

They could give a good rats @ss what a legal citizen thinks.

[JustPiper]

Then Supreme Court and also please email Judicial Watch we need help!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Bush has really marshaled the troups today, hasn't he?

Personally, I think no bill would be better than most of what I've seen proposed so far.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Our Senate passed a really tough border bill yesterday, Napolitano is certain to veto it! What they passed is what our congress should pass.

[JustPiper]

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Let's hold them all accountable for this, which citizen's right can we use from the Constitution Bill of Rights can we use for a class action suit maybe Klayman could bring?

[La Enchiladita]

OKAY! Taking a little breakie now.

[antceecee]

Last time I gave to JW was when the Dems were counting and recounting the 2000 election. Guess it's time to check out what they can do on this issue.

[JustPiper]

The Constitution specifies in Article VI, clause 3:

"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several state legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several states, shall be bound by oath or affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States."

For other officials, including members of Congress, it specifies they "shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support this constitution." At the start of each new U.S. Congress, in January of every odd-numbered year, those newly elected or re-elected Congressmen - the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate - must recite an oath:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

Hold their feet to the fire!!!

[JustPiper]

In 1789, the First United States Congress had reworked the constitutional requirement into a simple fourteen-word oath:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States." It also passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, which established an additional oath taken by Supreme Court justices and district court judges:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent on me, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, agreeably to the Constitution, and laws of the United States. So help me God.

The outbreak of the Civil War quickly transformed the routine act of oath-taking into one of enormous significance. In April of 1861, a time of uncertain and shifting loyalties, President Abraham Lincoln ordered all federal civilian employees within the executive branch to take an expanded oath. When Congress convened for a brief emergency session in July, members echoed the president's action by enacting legislation requiring employees to take the expanded oath in support of the Union. This oath is the earliest direct predecessor of the modern version of the oath.

[La Enchiladita]

Personally, I think no bill would be better than most of what I've seen proposed so far.

Righto. Don't need no steenkin' bill ... oh, except to hold off RICO, that is.

The traitor quisling coyote senators need a bill to their dirty deed, but the COUNTRY does not need a bill. WE THE PEOPLE have paid blood, sweat, tears and money to get these people to where they are and they continue steadfastly DERELICT IN THEIR DUTY.

Signed, Blue in the Face Red, White and Blue Patriot

[JustPiper]

Oath of Office for Congressmen, Senators and the President of the United States as set forth in the US Constitution

They are NOT doing this!!!

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.

[Madame Dufarge]

No, no.

I just now fell in love thanks to your link ;-)

[JustPiper]

Tony's back on Cspan

[JustPiper]

OKAY! Taking a little breakie now

Me too Dita I'm Manic ;)

[JustPiper]

LOL see I told him he is gathering a quick fan club amongst us ;)

[Arizona Carolyn]

It's starting to look more and more like the country and FR are splitting right down the middle... very few people in the middle in this situation

We are either passionate about the invasion of our country, with the assistance of our government, or don't care beause we turn a blind eye to the people we respect and let them do what they want, without holding them accountable to damage it brings to our society.

I really hate it has come to this.

[Seadog Bytes]

You're being 'nice' to them...

[Smartass]

Drug lords post the heads of decapitated police on a fence to show who's in charge

 

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May 17, 6:12 AM EDT

Mexico Voters Fear Nation on Edge of Chaos

By JULIE WATSON
Associated Press Writer

AP Photo/EDUARDO VERDUGO

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Police enraged by the kidnapping of six officers club unarmed detainees. A bloody battle between steelworkers and police leaves two miners dead. Drug lords post the heads of decapitated police on a fence to show who's in charge.

Less than two months before Mexicans elect their next president, many fear the country is teetering on the edge of chaos - a perception that could hurt the ruling National Action Party's chances of keeping the presidency and benefit Mexico's once-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, whose candidate has been trailing badly.

Some blame President Vicente Fox for a weak government. Others say rivals are instigating the violence to create that impression, hoping to hurt National Action candidate Felipe Calderon, who has a slight lead in recent polls.

A poll published Friday in Excelsior newspaper found 50 percent of respondents feared the government was on the brink of losing control. The polling company Parametria conducted face-to-face interviews at 1,000 homes across Mexico. The poll had a margin of error of 3 percentage points.

The conflicts are "a warning sign," said Yamel Nares, Parametria's research director.

Security is the top concern for Mexicans, and Fox has struggled to reform Mexico's notoriously corrupt police. Meanwhile, drug-related bloodshed has accelerated, with some cities seeing killings almost daily.

In April, suspected drug lords posted the heads of two police officers on a wall outside a government building where four drug traffickers died in a Jan. 27 shootout with officers in the Pacific resort of Acapulco.

A sign nearby read: "So that you learn to respect."

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Last week, Zapatista rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos said Mexico was in a "state of rage," and warned that tensions were similar to those that preceded the Zapatistas' brief armed uprising in January 1994 in the southern state of Chiapas.

He said his group is committed to peace, but many fear his increased public profile - after years of hiding out in the jungle - could foreshadow greater polarization among Mexican voters.

The masked leader said a May 3 clash that left a teenager dead and scores injured in San Salvador Atenco, 15 miles northeast of Mexico City, is an example of the growing tensions.

Marcos has been leading nearly daily demonstrations in the town following the incident, which began when a radical group of townspeople kidnapped and beat six policemen in a dispute over unlicensed flower vendors. Police responded with rage the next day. Television crews captured officers repeatedly beating unarmed protesters, and several detained women alleged officers raped them.

The clash followed another bloody battle between steelworkers and police trying to break up an illegal strike at a plant in Lazaro Cardenas last month. Unions later threatened to shut down the country.

George Grayson, a Mexico expert at the College of William & Mary, said the violence reflects Fox's lack of leadership.

"The state has become much weaker under his watch," Grayson said.

Recent polls show Calderon has overtaken longtime presidential front-runner Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, whom opponents have portrayed as a leftist demagogue similar to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

But that could change if PRI candidate Roberto Madrazo can convince voters that Mexico was more stable under his party's 71-year reign, which ended with Fox's victory in 2000. Mexican law bars presidents from seeking re-election.

Madrazo has tried to paint himself as the law-and-order candidate - though so far his poll numbers have remained well behind those of Calderon and Lopez Obrador.

"It's not going to help Lopez Obrador who has been associated with the rabble rousers, but Madrazo can come out and say with his party at least Mexico had continued stability," Grayson said.

Gerardo Aranda, a tourism guide in Mexico City, said he won't go back to the PRI, but he doesn't know who he will vote for.

"No one really knows now what could happen next," he said. "All the candidates are bad. ... There is so much anger toward the government, everyone is against everything."

 

 

 

[WestCoastGal]

"WIMBERLEY SAYS THE COMPANY HAS WORKED FOR MONTHS TRYING TO HIRE LOCAL SKILLED LABOR, BUT HAS COME UP SHORT. "

So the illegal mexicans are skilled?? Give me a break. I absolutely cannot believe they can't find employees to work for $18.00/hour!!