Posted on 06/13/2007 3:32:02 PM PDT by Dan Evans
President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship, provided they learn Spanish. The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out most Albanians haven't broken any U.S. laws.
Bush keeps claiming he's dying to enforce the border, but he just can't do it unless we immediately grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens. I wonder if that worked on Laura Bush:
Laura: George, it's time you quit drinking.
George: OK, honey, let's discuss it over cocktails.
How about Bush enforce the border and then we'll discuss his amnesty plan?
He assures us that granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants already here won't inspire millions more to run across the border because ... he's going to put infrared lights at the border!
Well, that's a relief. What precisely will infrared lights do again? This is worse than those fake cameras they sell at hardware stores to make it look like you have cameras outside your house. We still need something or someone – say, a wall or a Border Patrol agent – to stop the Mexicans illegally crossing the border as we watch them on the infrared cameras.
Bush won't build a wall, and he keeps prosecuting law enforcement officers who stop illegal border crossers. But trust him: He'll get right on that border enforcement business as soon as we grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens.
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean are normally the sort of Mexican-Americans Bush would tear up at while promoting amnesty for illegal aliens. Both served in the military and are taxpaying, law-abiding citizens. They've been risking their lives as Border Patrol agents for years.
Ramos was nominated for Border Patrol Agent of the Year in 2005. His nomination received a major setback when the Bush administration decided to put him in prison instead. Ramos and Compean are now serving more than 10 years apiece in solitary confinement for chasing a drug-running illegal alien back to Mexico.
Bush's pal, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, gave immunity to a Mexican drug dealer hauling a million dollars worth of drugs across the border so the drug dealer could testify against two Border Patrol agents who shot him in the buttocks.
The Border Patrol agents were presumed guilty of an unlawful shooting because they neglected to fill out the proper paperwork. For busting a cap in the butt of a drug courier crossing the border illegally – who was so mortally wounded that he proceeded to scamper back to Mexico – they were supposed to spend five hours filling out paperwork. This is what the Bush administration means when it talks about a "cover-up." As U.S. prosecutor Debra Kanof said, "You have to report any discharge of a firearm."
Intriguingly, Kanof also says: "The Border Patrol pursuit policy prohibits the pursuit of someone." (Hence, the oft-heard warning of the border agent in hot pursuit, "Stop or I'll ... do absolutely nothing!") Can we apply this rule to meter maids and tax collectors? At least now border agents will be able to watch the illegal aliens they can't pursue on infrared cameras!
But wait – that's not all! The Border Patrol agents also exceeded the speed limit. "In order to exceed the speed limit," Kanof said, "you have to get supervisor approval, and they did not." It's just so hard to fill out a written request to exceed the speed limit when you're off-roading at 65 mph. There's a whispering campaign suggesting that Ramos and Compean failed to use their turn signal.
As I understand it, you're also not supposed to cross the border illegally from Mexico with a van full of drugs. But the Bush administration has no interest in enforcing those laws. Ninety-eight percent of illegal aliens captured crossing the border illegally are not prosecuted. Those drugs are doing the job American drugs just won't do!
The Bush administration pulls out the big guns only for serious violations like a Border Patrol officer not filling out paperwork.
In addition to giving the illegal-alien drug smuggler full immunity to testify against U.S. Border Patrol agents, the government gave him taxpayer-funded medical care for his buttocks wound, an unconditional border-crossing card, the right to sue the U.S. for "civil rights" violations and a GAP gift card. The drug runner is also on the short-list to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
He's now suing the U.S. for $5 million, but the Bush administration is hoping to bargain him down to $10 million.
That border-crossing card came in handy when the winged illegal alien brought in another load of drugs a short eight months later – for which he has still not been charged, nearly two years later. Who does he think he is? Rep. William Jefferson?
Bush's pal Sutton keeps defending his decision to prosecute Border Patrol agents for paperwork violations, rather than an illegal alien for drug trafficking, on the grounds that the drug dealer has not been charged with any crimes. Let's see, whose job is it to charge that Mexican drug runner with a crime? Why, I believe that would be Johnny Sutton!
Maybe Sutton was too busy prosecuting another Mexican-American law enforcement officer for trying to stop illegal aliens from crossing our border. Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez shot at the tires of a van full of illegal aliens, inadvertently wounding one of them. Sutton prosecuted Hernandez. The government proceeded to give the illegal aliens green cards and $100,000 each.
I didn't realize "living in the shadows" meant in the shadows of palm trees around the pools at taxpayer-funded houses.
Illegal aliens might want to rethink Bush's amnesty plan. The only Hispanics Bush seems to prosecute are the ones who are law-abiding U.S. citizens.
Very little left, I'm afraid. Sad, isn't it?
Carolyn
Truly one of her signature pieces. This is why we love Ann.
If we allow our country to be taken from us, and for our children's children to live in a tyranny presently unknown to us, then we have no one to blame but ourselves."
Amen! The Marxist have been trying for years to have us believe that our ancestors are not worthy and in fact some of the worst evil the world has ever known. They have almost succeeded. If we lose our connection to our past we then lose that which binds us. All the blood and toil spent on our behalf will have been in vain and we will lose it all.
"It's not to our credit to think we began today and it's not to our glory to think we end today."
How can you expect to stop drinking, when you have 12-20 million bottles of beer already in your refrigerator? The only possible solution is to declare them all to be soda pop, and only then don't let any more beer into your shopping cart.
This situation with immigration is yet another example of the disconnect with Republicans and conservatives. And if the polls on general issues have anything to say about it, Republicans may be in for a bit of a shock come next year. If Bush had governed conservatively anytime in the past 7 years, he possibly could have slid this through with some argument. Would have been passed off as a fluke but it would pass. However as Bush has governed more liberally than even LBJ, conservatives (Republican and otherwise) have had enough. The fact that Coulter however has expressed it is somewhat shocking.
SECESSION - NOW!
I believe the proper procedure is to convene a constitutional convention and start over. I think a real good place to start would be to reauthorize the original constitution with stronger limits on how much the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches could tinker with it.
That picture's so great ...who would complain.
I’m begining to think the Iraq war is a diversion so that this bill can get shoved through, fwiw.
Just as my tagline has been saying.
GOD BLESS YOU!!!!
What a photo!!!! What a beautiful, hot, intellignet, witty woman!!!!
Her boyfriend has got to be the luckiest guy alive - maybe the luckiest guy who ever lived!!!
Deja Vu
BTTT
If the Fiscal Conservative/Social Liberals in the Republican Party (a.k.a. “RINOS”) think they can continue to exploit the mass of the Republican base by appealing to purely economic issues while pandering to leftist on social issues, they have a surprise waiting for them in the future and they might very well find themselves with no political party at all.
If the Republicans in Congress permit themselves to be strong-armed by a totally inept lame-duck President into supporting an essentially liberal Democrat bill on illegal amnesty, and feel they can give the one-fingered salute to their base and the mass of Americans who oppose this, they will be looking for new jobs after the primaries and general elections - at least if the American public isn't as stupid as these RINOS seem to think they are.
Rush Limbaugh isn’t giving the one-fingered salute to his political base and the mass of the Republican base and American voting public on a Congressional bill which is a masterwork of idiocy, duplicity and treason.
Harriet Miers may very well be a nice, intelligent lady and a good personal friend of the Bushes, but that no more qualified her for Supreme Court Justice than an Islamic State, however “progressive” is fit to manage our seaports.
If George isn't imbibing, he is either suffering from serious intellectual lapses, or he did a supreme con job on the Republican base - and the majority of Americans who voted for him.
As ALWAYS, Ann is right on the mark, and, unfortunately, as is increasingly the case, George Bush II is acting like the total catastrophe and political embarrassment he and his administration has become to the Republican party rank and file as well as all Republican Presidential candidates excepting only one.
Rush Limbaugh isn’t giving the one-fingered salute to his political base and the mass of the Republican base and American voting public on a Congressional bill which is a masterwork of idiocy, duplicity and treason.
Harriet Miers may very well be a nice, intelligent lady and a good personal friend of the Bushes, but that no more qualified her for Supreme Court Justice than an Islamic State, however “progressive” is fit to manage our seaports.
If George isn't imbibing, he is either suffering from serious intellectual lapses, or he did a supreme con job on the Republican base - and the majority of Americans who voted for him.
As ALWAYS, Ann is right on the mark, and, unfortunately, as is increasingly the case, George Bush II is acting like the total catastrophe and political embarrassment he and his administration has become to the Republican party rank and file as well as all Republican Presidential candidates excepting only one.
Harriet Miers is apparently an accomplished attorney and businesswoman. She is also very active in politics. But so are thousands of other individuals. What sets her apart from them is her personal connections to the Bush Family. She is totally lacking in any judicial experience. She never held a judgeship or sat on any bench. Her judicial and constitutional views are a tabula rasa. If you think that not having any judicial experience is a desirable quantifier for a position in a court that reviews the decisions of lower courts, I suggest you move to New Jersey. Most, if not all of their Supreme Court Justices are politically connected attorneys with no judgeship experience. And if you are aware of some of the decisions rendered by that “august” body, this is hardly a recommendation.
At this point, President Bush’s talent for judging people is obviously seriously impaired - from his appraisal of Kennedy and Putin to his appointments like Chrissie Whitman and Alberto Gonzales, he has demonstrated a nearly unbroken record of inept opinions.
“Ann has used Miers name as a battering ram to use against President Bush>’
She uses ALL of Bush’s many failings to attack the man - and there are MANY and they are growing. Do you believe in “global warning”?
“In the same way that her hero Joe McCarthy has had his name embedded in American history to trigger a picture of a radical, boozing, out of control, name smearing anti communist.”
There is a difference between a smear and simple facts, even if the latter are presented in a sometimes dramatic and acerbic manner, something I find fully justified considering the seriousness of Bush’s failings.
“As for Limbaugh and for that matter, Coulter, they are not President, having not been voted into any office by any voter. “
True. Bush is the man who was voted into office and a substantial number of those who put him there - myself included - feel betrayed by his ineptitude and arrogance.
“They make their money opining and are only as good as their reputations for credibility remain intact.”
I think Ann’s credibility is quite reputable.
“They can pick and choose who to denounce or promote. “
Ann is quite consistent and loyal to her conservative political principles - which is a lot more than I can state about the promoter of “compassionate conservatism”.
“People who want to use the Republican party to promote their agendas should not act betrayed when things do not go their way.”
That’s rather an odd statement. People support a political party because it represents the philosophies they espouse, not because they like the sound of the name. Political parties are not like baseball teams. When a particular political party presents itself as a representative of certain philosophical viewpoint and then acts contrary to that view point, those people who voted for it have a right to express outrage. That goes for candidates also.This is hardly using a political party for personals advantage. If anything, fiscal conservatives/social liberals, a.k.a. RINOS are the ones guilty of using a political party for their personal advantage.
“You repeat the insinuation that Pres Bush is imbibing to try and reinforce the nasty Coulter scenario.”
Something is seriously wrong with a man who takes an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States and neglects our southern border, collaborates with liberals and a foreign government to violate the laws that require him to defend that border, and then tries to ram through Congress a legislative bill that defies public opinion on that subject.
Something is wrong with a man who thinks it wise to put the management of our ports in the hands of an Islamic state, who does an about face on the “religion” of global warming, who undertakes actions which could very well initiate the start of the Cold War again to defend against missile attacks never threatened and indeed incapable of being carried out in the near future at a time when are military hands are full already with a war against Islam.
“How about my pretend scenario of Coulter sitting down to a plate of lettuce ..........................titillated by slinging trash at President Bush and Harriet Miers.”
Meow.
Coulter could use a little more meat on her bones, but she still is a VERY beautiful woman. And that “trash” being flung at Bush are merely facts.
It is no accident that no single Republican candidate for President is invoking his name. Rather they are mentioning the name of the man whose legacy his father in part betrayed. Bush II has been a catastrophe for the Republican Party and for America. He need't worry about Democrats impeaching him - he is their best weapon in 2008.
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