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Bush springs drug dealers, leaves border agents to rot
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | December 23, 2008 | Bob Unruh

Posted on 12/23/2008 8:11:29 PM PST by Man50D

President George W. Bush today added a convicted methamphetamine dealer, a cocaine distributor and two marijuana suppliers to the list of drug operators he's pardoned while in office, bringing his total of drug suppliers who have been pardoned or had their sentences commuted to 36.

He's also pardoned more than a dozen thieves, seven embezzlers, an arsonist, several mail thieves, a man who violated the Neutrality Act and eight Thanksgiving turkeys, but there's been no clemency for U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who were convicted of shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler.

Andy Ramirez, of Friends of the Border Patrol, long has been involved in the Ramos-Compean case, and said the questions just start piling up.

"First and foremost is the question that has to be asked, 'Why is the president dug in so deep' on Ramos and Compean?" Ramirez said. "Look at how many members of Congress have sent him letters, and have held hearings.

"You really have got to start to wonder … does this doper (in the Ramos-Compean case) lead to somebody really big?" he said.

Joe Loya, the father-in-law for Ramos, said he, his daughter and grandchildren were "devastated" by word that Ramos and Compean had been denied clemency on the latest list of presidential actions.

"We were praying for a miracle. We just don't understand where the connection is when drug smugglers are getting pardons and commuted sentences, yet two agents who are not criminals, who were just doing their jobs, are in isolation," he told WND by telephone as he traveled to visit his son-in-law in jail on Christmas Eve.

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To: lara

I’m being critical of W. He’s full of poop when he starts talking about souls, and a lot of other things too.


21 posted on 12/23/2008 9:01:27 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: MarkL
Sadly, we have a better chance of seeing him say, "President-elect Obama, show us your birth certificate!"

I'm not kidding.

22 posted on 12/23/2008 9:02:46 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Will88

All I meant was in the current economic climate, with supposedly hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs...that’s not the time to quit your government job in protest.

As President Reagan said to the Air-Traffic Controllers (ATC) union....”Make my Day!” Or was that Dirty Harry? ;^)


23 posted on 12/23/2008 9:06:13 PM PST by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: sickoflibs
I never imagine that Bush was soooooo malleable! Soft, like putty or modeling clay, he was molded early in my opinion by holdovers from his "Read My Lips" old man's administration shortly after he won the 2000 GOP primary.

First Mistake: If you'll remember, Dick Cheney was sent down to Crawford to help him pick a running-mate instead of being the one. So, in effect, we got a VP candidate with a bum heart and absolutely no chance of succeeding him after his second term despite all of the good younger choices out there.
Second Mistake: He didn't come out and circumvent the media by announcing his DUI conviction and saying that he learned a lesson from the experience, instead of letting the press discover it. The consequence was a stalemate of an election with Gore.
Third mistake: CFR. If he didn't like McCain-Feingold, why did he sign it into law.
Fourth mistake: Rumsfeld after 9-11! The man was another Gen. McClellan--great at building the military after Clinton but a disaster when it came to using it in wartime.
Fifth mistake: Katrina. It was a wasted opportunity to demonstrate that he, a compassionate conservative, really cared. The photo op of a plane ride over the area was a colossal boner.
Sixth mistake: Allowing himself to be talked into the "limited warfare" strategy of pre-surge Iraq.
Seventh Mistake: Harriet Myers as a SC possibility--Gonzo's incompetence added to it.
Eighth Mistake: Illegals and what to do with them.
Ninth Mistake: After "we took a thumpin'" he didn't try to shore up the fiscal state of his house with VETO power.
Tenth Mistake: The 10th is the "Cry-sis" Paulsen, Cox, Bernake, Fannie, Freddie, Lehman, Bear Stearns--basically the economy which will forever plague him to the legacy of presidential failures.

24 posted on 12/23/2008 9:21:59 PM PST by meandog (Wasilla warrior in 2012!)
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To: DCPatriot

“As President Reagan said to the Air-Traffic Controllers (ATC) union....”Make my Day!” Or was that Dirty Harry? ;^)”

Lol, you take this too seriously, or enjoy too much the prospect of large numbers of displaced government employees. But I don’t think there’s any real prospect of BP agents on strike, but more the possibility of the better part of wisdom causing more and more to turn their heads when trouble is afoot, much as some policemen do in very dangerous, high crime areas where the danger of being accused of brutality outweighs the call to intervene in risky situations.


25 posted on 12/23/2008 9:23:44 PM PST by Will88
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To: Man50D
In the spirit of the Hoover Dam, I propose something named for "W"orse! How about a levee in New Orleans? After all they are "down to earth," designed to be a uniter and work well despite opposition of pressure, and fail when needed!

Bush=bum!

26 posted on 12/23/2008 9:29:09 PM PST by meandog (Wasilla warrior in 2012!)
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To: meandog
Second Mistake: He didn't come out and circumvent the media by announcing his DUI conviction and saying that he learned a lesson from the experience, instead of letting the press discover it.

Wouldn't have helped. The MSM would have had more time to drum "drunk" into the sheeple's heads. Yet they never reported on Obama's cocaine dealing and usage, even though the Messiah admitted it himself in "Dreams of My Father."

27 posted on 12/23/2008 9:30:59 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: DCPatriot
Me thinks you are a lawyer....if Im right...dont answer what u do for a living...
28 posted on 12/23/2008 9:41:03 PM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: meandog

“So, in effect, we got a VP candidate with a bum heart and absolutely no chance of succeeding him after his second term despite all of the good younger choices out there.”

Quite a list, and accurate, too. One about thing both Bushes, they left the party far weaker than when they entered the WH. And, neither picked a VP anyone might have thought would, or could become a strong candidate for the presidency. Both Bushes both just used up and frittered away all the power and influence built up by others over the years, and left the party in much worse shape, especially W.


29 posted on 12/23/2008 9:44:13 PM PST by Will88
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To: tips up

ping


30 posted on 12/23/2008 9:45:42 PM PST by Glacier Honey
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To: buccaneer81

“even though the Messiah admitted it himself in “Dreams of My Father.”

That was purely a pre-emptive move by the Messiah, a few years before he announced. Of course, the press let him get away with it, but W could probably have softened the blow a great deal by making his DWI public a year or two before he ran for the WH. Much better than a few days before election day.

Most will do the pre-emptive thing from now on for these addictive, or youthful indiscretion type things.


31 posted on 12/23/2008 9:48:45 PM PST by Will88
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To: buccaneer81

I don’t disagree with you and I too wish he would let the pardon happen now. I am just trying not to give up hope for them.


32 posted on 12/23/2008 9:57:46 PM PST by celtic gal
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To: Will88
Most will do the pre-emptive thing from now on for these addictive, or youthful indiscretion type things.

That's exactly what the MSM will agreeably adhere to for a 'Rat.

If Sarah Palin had been busted at a beer bash when she was 17, they would have portrayed her as a habitual sustance abusing delinquent. Remember the Bush twins and margaritas in a restaurant?

We've seen in the past week what guilt by association looks like to the MSM. Not Ayers or Wright wit Obama, but an unknown, so far unrelated woman to Sarah Palin named Johnston with an Oxycontin issue.

That's how it works.

33 posted on 12/23/2008 10:00:09 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: DCPatriot

How do you know they are more physically fit than me? Have you ever seen me? I don’t think so. But if they desperately want to serve long prison sentences for enforcing the law while drug smugglers are free to go, then more power to them. I will take a big, fat pass on that, thank you very much!


34 posted on 12/23/2008 10:03:47 PM PST by chris37
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To: buccaneer81

“That’s how it works.”

I know the MSM will always cover for the Dems. and amplify anything they can on Republicans. But it would still be better for Republicans to get those past brushes with the law or pot smoking in college out of the way well before they make a run for the WH.


35 posted on 12/23/2008 10:07:46 PM PST by Will88
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To: Moonman62; Man50D
W won’t compromise his soul to be popular.

This has nothing to do with being popular. He has already sold his soul, long ago, to the masters he really serves... and that isn't "we the people"...

36 posted on 12/23/2008 10:29:12 PM PST by tarheelswamprat
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To: Will88
But it would still be better for Republicans to get those past brushes with the law or pot smoking in college out of the way well before they make a run for the WH.

Resurrection of issues is eternal (for conservative candidates and their families.) Remember, a drunken 16 year old Laura Bush killed her classmate in a car crash in 1963.

I rest my case.

37 posted on 12/23/2008 11:01:37 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Man50D; All
"He's also pardoned more than a dozen thieves, seven embezzlers, an arsonist, several mail thieves, a man who violated the Neutrality Act and eight Thanksgiving turkeys"

The randy bastard couldn't have stopped with the Neutrality Act? OMG.
38 posted on 12/23/2008 11:29:31 PM PST by mkjessup
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To: Man50D

wnd-over-the-edge alert.


39 posted on 12/23/2008 11:30:40 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (appeasement is collaboration.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
wnd-over-the-edge alert.

Indeed? You agree with Ramos and Compeon being imprisoned?

40 posted on 12/23/2008 11:37:39 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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