( A tipping hat is supposed to appear... )
Posted on 06/02/2007 2:52:24 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bush scolds balking GOP
By Stephen Dinan and Ralph Z. Hallow THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published June 2, 2007
President Bush yesterday renewed his attack on Republicans who oppose his immigration bill, again charging that they are trying to "frighten people" and calling on supporters to rally around the compromise.
The president pleaded with senators to "show courage and resolve" to withstand outrage from voters in their districts.
"It is right to argue for what you believe and recognize that compromise might be necessary to move the bill along. And it is right to take political risk for members of the United States Congress," Mr. Bush said in his second impassioned plea this week on the issue and the second time that he has accused Republicans of trying to scare voters by labeling provisions in the bill an "amnesty."
But many Republican senators say the bill is both an amnesty and unworkable and argue that Mr. Bush's barbs are off the mark.
"I'm not going around frightening people. People are frightened, and they're trying to scare the politicians into voting the way they want them to," said Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, whose opposition to the bill has earned him standing ovations at speeches and events back home during the past week.
Mr. Bush's challenge followed a speech in Georgia on Tuesday that infuriated Republican opponents of his bill. And the renewed challenge came just a day after White House press secretary Tony Snow said the administration was trying to "lower the temperature and get people to talk about basic principles."
The fight is taking a serious toll on Republicans. The Washington Times reported yesterday that small donations to the Republican National Committee have dropped by an estimated 40 percent
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He is the first president that has ever been serious about the war on terror.
People that trash President Bush only put Our troops in more danger.
BTW RUDY IS A POS and so is anybody that votes for him.
Is is is or is is ain’t?
Yes is is with one constraint:
Is is never is becuz
Once you’ve said is is is wuz!
He can just bite my hind end.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/02/20010216-3.html
Mexico is the first foreign country I have visited as President, and I intended it to be that way.
LOL! You might as well have been speaking in Spanish. Maybe then the solicitor would have paid attention.
Speaking of doing the work Americans won’t do...
This report today from my old home town (before the barrios took over!).
This is an offshoot of a ‘free’ clinic (paid for by taxpayers for the ‘hispanic’ community.....REAL nice to know they hire illegal aliens!)
Get your immunizations and a free grope!!
What a country!
Sex abuser gets 12½ years
Luis Mesta, 29, was convicted of molesting four grade-school girls
By Anita Burke
Mail Tribune- Medford, Oregon
June 02, 2007
A former receptionist at a school-based clinic in Medford convicted of sexually abusing four grade-school girls will spend 121/2; years in prison, then face deportation to Mexico.
Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Bill Purdy sentenced Luis Armando Mesta, 29, Friday morning. Mesta was found guilty on four counts of first-degree sexual abuse in March and acquitted of a fifth charge.
The charges stemmed from abuse reported in October 2006 at Kids Health Connection at Jackson Elementary School. During Mesta’s trial in March, the girls — four fourth-graders and one sixth-grader — testified that he had touched their breasts at the clinic, which is a community partnership between school districts and health-care providers.
“This will affect me my whole life,” one of his victims, a 12-year-old girl, told Purdy at the sentencing. The Mail Tribune doesn’t print the names of sex-abuse victims.
The girl’s father also spoke at the sentencing, describing how his daughter had withdrawn from sports, dance and volunteering at school. The family at first attributed her behavior and slipping grades to the effects of puberty, but then got a call from police about an investigation that indicated she had been sexually abused.
“His crimes have changed her and the rest of our family,” the man said.
He said the family has transferred her and her younger sister to another school.
“I’ve lost contact with all my friends,” the girl said. “This has scarred me and my sister.”
Jackson County Deputy District Attorney Rachel Bridges said the fourth-grade victims didn’t want to attend the sentencing, but they still cared deeply about the outcome.
“The little girls don’t want to see him again,” she said. “They are terrified.”
Bridges also read statements from the girl named in the charge Mesta was acquitted of. She also read a statement from the girl’s mother.”I know she is telling the truth,” the mother wrote. “I pray that you feel the pain you inflicted on these girls and on your own family.”
Bridges recommended the 121/2-year sentence. Oregon law imposes a mandatory penalty of six years and three months in prison for first-degree sex abuse. The abuse involved different victims in separate incidents, so the sentences could be imposed one after another, sending Mesta to prison for 25 years, she said.
However, because Mesta is not a U.S. citizen and faces the revocation of his permission to be in the country, she questioned how long taxpayers will want to keep him in prison.
“I don’t think they want to house him that long when he is just going to be deported,” Bridges said.
Paul Beneke, Mesta’s defense attorney, said Mesta continues to maintain his innocence and said the 11-1 jury vote wouldn’t have been enough to convict him in most states.
Beneke blamed the conviction on a tight schedule that left jurors eager to quit deliberations and get home, racism among some witnesses called, and errors in news coverage about additional related charges that were dropped on a technical issue.
Beneke argued that Mesta shouldn’t spend 25 years in prison, the sentence that can be imposed for murder. He noted that Mesta will face the additional punishment of deportation.
“He is banished, exiled from the only home he’s ever known in a punishment that a citizen wouldn’t face,” Beneke said.
In addition to the prison time, Mesta must pay nearly $530 for victims’ medical and therapy expenses, submit to DNA testing and register as a sex offender.
Reach reporter Anita Burke at 776-4485 or at aburke@mailtribune.com
http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070602/NEWS/706020311
Amen on your point of view, God Bless.
HAHAHA! Thanks for the laughs. It always helps to insert a little humor into a serious situation.
Don’t forget kissing Ted Kennedy’s fat ass.
Re Jeb no way in Hell!!!!!!
I think if you have to talk down to your own party, it is time to stick a fork in it and move on.
Politicians saying that this is not an amnesty bill reminds me of what I heard Judge Judy say once on TV: Don’t piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining!
I guess I “don’t want to do what’s right for America” according to Dubya.
Looks like Dubya never got the old lesson from his grandparents about
how you can’t unring a bell you’ve rung.
Not matter how many spin-doctors you dispatch to undo the damage done by
truly speaking your mind and having it end up in print.
Thus, here’s the link and the excerpted kicker passage for me:
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/opinion/x537528480
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OK, vote against it then “if you don’t want to do what’s right for America.”
They want al Qaeda to win.
He accused opponents of immigration reform of using distortion
and scare tactics “to frighten our citizens.” That’s exactly what the
Democrats accused Bush of doing in 2004 and 2006 but, hey, it worked for
him then and it might work for him now.
Just as the campaign used to do, after Bush accused his opponents of
being unpatriotic and un-American, a senior official approached
reporters to say, “In no way was he questioning anyone’s patriotism or
desire to do what’s right.”
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( A tipping hat is supposed to appear... )
W cut taxes and has fought the WOT (albeit not as well as it could have been)): he got two conservative SCOTUS memebers in (only after the outcry over the Miers gaffe). But aside from that, he hasn’t been too conservative. He’s almost bipolar, You admire him on his good days, but don’t know what he’s going to do next.
I can see it in my minds eye. ;-)
From the article:
In some instances, those who left the RNC joined the nascent organizations of Republican presidential nomination hopefuls. Others jumped the RNC ship to take better-paying and “less-stultifying jobs” in the private sectors, some former political operatives said.
This week, the latest desertions include several RNC staff members leaving the research, finance and other departments to join the undeclared Republican presidential campaign of former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Republicans close to the RNC told The Times in separate and confidential interviews.
There is hope.
That started when he allowed the swimmer to write the education bill.
Federal funding for education has risen what 80 percent with no appreciable rise in test scores the result.
Kennedy turned right around and at an event honoring his late brother where the President said glowing things about J.F.K. the swimmer insulted the hell out of Bush.
Jefferson said the Tree of Liberty would periodically need to be watered with the blood of patriots and tyrants. What you have described is not a civil war at all but rather a refreshing of the American Revolution.
Don't you imagine that EMK told GWB in advance that he would be making critical remarks to satisfy the Democrat base and that GWB should not be offended in the least because it was "just politics". HST once told the same thing to his "friend" Herbert Hoover, whom HST genuinely came to admire in their mutual retirement years.
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