Given his connection to the racialist group La Raza, he shouldn’t have been America’s top cop, anyway.
More here.
From the category archives:
Bush Bad
Commenter Shade dropped this link: Border jumpers are burning down border posts and setting fires along patrol routes to distract agents and get across. Yeah, these people should be rewarded with precious U.S. citizenship. Way to go, King George! 
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All these years, liberals were right about one thing: George Bush is an idiot. Video here.
What a disappointment. 
Addendum: The backlash begins. (Thanks, Renee!)
Update (6/1): President George W. Bush will go down in history as the man who ushered in a dramatic demographic shift that turned the United States into a Third World country, with a disappearing middle class, another poorly educated and poor underclass (this one much larger than the other and Spanish-speaking), and a wealthy, insulated, gated-community elite.
And I voted for him. Twice. I voted for Clinton twice, too, but I’m more ashamed of voting for Bush.
Peggy Noonan writes: “What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. This is sad, and it holds implications not only for one political party but for the American future.”
Check out this exchange between a Republican donor and the RNC.
I’m a revolter! At times like this, I’m glad I don’t belong to the Republican party. No annoying phone calls (or junk mail) from the RNC.
To escape politics for a while, visit Fantasy Fiction for Christians.
Update II: Loyal reader Renee just told me Rush Limbaugh read part of an article I wrote on his show today. Excellent. 
Let’s speak plainly. Republicans got their bleep kicked Tuesday night.
It was ugly. As I sat in a downtown D.C. coffeehouse on a cramped couch surrounded by bloggers blogging, I knew there’d be little good news for Republicans when the sun came up. The people spoke loudly and clearly: “You guys stink.”
In “Another Campaign Begins,” I tried to sum up, in 600 words, why I thought Republicans lost. While Americans voted for “conservative” policies, they rejected the men behind those policies. It is possible that people were so angry about the war in Iraq and recent scandals that they’ve indeed cut off their noses to spite their faces.
Self-mutilation isn’t illegal.
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U.S. immigration policy is a JOKE.
A few days ago, a local newspaper in California reported what’s been known for quite some time: the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) is giving employees cash and prize bonuses to “fastrack” immigration applications to reduce a backlog, at the expense of properly vetting the documents for criminal background and national security concerns.
In some cases, national security red flags are ignored because investigating, which is what the USCIS is tasked to do, would slow down the process!
If the average government employee worked quickly, and maintained accuracy and quality control, fastracking wouldn’t be a problem. But…need I say it? Most people I know working for the feds care little about what they’re doing and more about the security of a federal job. Add to that the enticement of cash, time off, and movie tickets for moving applications, and you’ve got a disaster in the making.
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After defending congressional crook William Jefferson last month and demanding the return of the documents seized in an FBI raid, Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, may have redeemed himself.
An emasculated Senate went through the motions of deliberation and quickly passed George Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens plan. The House passed a bill that at least gave a nod to enforcement. As is the usual practice, a committee made up of members of both chambers will get together and sort out the differences and compromise (oh, how I hate that word!).
Hastert wants to slow down the process and hold a few hearings on the legislation before a compromise is reached. I don’t know what he has in mind, but if it can stop Bush’s amnesty-for-illegal-aliens plan, I’m all for it.
Incidentally, did you know that aliens can use up to 20 documents to verify legal status? It’s a mockery. The point is to render the whole “legal papers” process meaningless and allow illegal aliens to remain in the United States with fake papers. Workers should present valid visas or guest worker permits. Period.
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Update II (06/06/06): Did Lawrence v. Texas get the “gay marriage” ball rolling?
Update (3:02 p.m.): Ann Coulter will appear on Pundit Review Radio this Sunday, and she’ll probably discuss homosexual “marriage,” illegal “immigration,” and her new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism.
Listen live on WRKO in Boston.
I’ve added Ann’s book to my Amazon Wish List (hint, hint…)
Tomorrow morning I’ll participate in a bloggers conference call with Senator Rick Santorum, who supports the Federal Marriage Amendment.
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Now that George Bush and his co-president Vicente Fox of Mexico have got their America-destroying “immigration” plan working its way through a “deballed” Senate, Bush is trying to throw his base dogs a bone with a homosexual “marriage” ban amendment to the Constitution.
Bush has the wherewithal to fight to change the freakin’ Constitution, yet when it comes to stopping illegal aliens from crossing the border, he has no fight in him to execute laws already on the books? OK.
Politicians are so transparent. The midterm elections are quickly approaching (can you believe 2006 is half over?), and Bush is trying to appease angry conservatives and Christians by pushing this amendment. It’s an empty and meaningless gesture because the thing will never be ratified.
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(These men are what you’d call “enemies” of George Bush. They are vehemently anti-amnesty and fiercely pro-enforcement. Actually, I’m only assuming Thomas Sowell [far left] is “fiercely” pro-enforcement. Next is Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist, “Rasta Republican” Ted Hayes, and Rep. Tom Tancredo, a man who should but will never be president of the United States. Honorable mentions: Rep. J.D. Hayworth and Rep. Mike Pence.)
["An estimated 45,000 cases of illegal immigrants from terror-linked countries were released to the American alien frontier between fiscal 2001 and the first five months of 2005."
OH NO, George Bush shouldn't be impeached for his immigration non-enforcement policy. That's absurd, La Shawn. You're crazy, girl. ]
[Wednesday, May 24: Part II of Bordering on fraud]
While I try to ignore people telling me how to think and feel about George Bush and his amnesty-for-illegal-aliens scheme, I’ll continue to provide my no-holds-barred commentary. Ironically, some of the same people are regular readers who know my style by now. I don’t go along with Republicans or conservatives (not necessarily the same thing) just because they’re Republicans or conservatives. I focus on principles and ideology.
My loyalty lies with men who put America and its citizens first, before all others. If they can’t do that, they won’t get my support. Period. I hate it when liberals, with their insipid multicultural claptrap, tell me how to think, and I hate it when conservatives do it.
That’s not to say I won’t vote in November. You better believe I’ll vote, but not to prove anything to anyone. I consider voting a duty because blacks who came before me fought and risked their lives so I, their descendant, could do so freely and without fear.
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Wednesday, May 17: This post is closed. If you want to discuss illegal immigration (a misnomer if I ever heard one!), click over to the latest post.
Update II (5/16 @ 7:07 p.m.): Mexico threatens lawsuits over Guard. Nice.
Sailer: “The future of the GOP lies not with the Hispanic vote but with overlooked middle-class Americans.”
Update (5/16 @ 7:30 a.m.): Polipundit, the anonymous host of the popular group blog of the same name, has issued a new editorial policy to bloggers Lorie Byrd, DJ Drummond, Jayson, and Alexander K. McClure.
Based on the policy (which he briefly explains), Lorie has decided to leave the group blog. From her personal blog:
I received a lengthy email from Polipundit tonight alerting us to an editorial policy change that included the following: “From now on, every blogger at PoliPundit.com will either agree with me completely on the immigration issue, or not blog at PoliPundit.com.”
Apparently Lorie doesn’t agree completely with Polipundit’s position. The illegal immigration issue is potent, and it’s driving a wedge between Republicans and conservative in the blogosphere. Polipundit has every right to make the rules on his blog, so he can’t be faulted for that. I support his decision. (I considered guest bloggers at LBC, and I would have selected conservative Christians whose worldview matched my own.) Yesterday I linked to his El Presidente post and highly recommended it. I share his outrage, and it’s good to know that at least one conservative blogger feels as angry as I do about illegal immigration.
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Monday, May 15: I’m still surprised by the popularity of this post, but I welcome new readers and civil commenters nonetheless. When you’re done reading the post, read this one about tonight’s speech.
Friday, May 12: This post is still generating interest (for some odd reason!), so I’ve re-opened it for commenting. Read the entire post, read parts of it, follow instructions or not, talk about the weather…whatever. Happy Friday! 
Update II (5/11): I’m really quite disappointed with commenters on this post. It’s not about dissent; I allow non-ad homimen dissent at LBC. But I asked for two things on this post: other examples of abuse of power and other possible articles of impeachment. Exactly one commenter attempted to answer one of the questions. Many disagreed and didn’t address the questions. A few told me I was crazy (although most of those didn’t make it past the troll filter). Even commenters who agreed with the post didn’t answer the questions.
The hypothetical Article I drafted was deliberately vague. You’ll notice that I created a (1) but didn’t add (2). I wanted readers to come up with additional articles and examples. It was an exercise, an experiment to see what commenters would come up with.
But most didn’t bother. I could have added something like, “If you don’t think he should be impeached, don’t comment,” but people would have commented anyway. That’s the way we are. Whether people ask or not, we want to tell them what we think. I know my opinion about what should be done with Bush is controversial. Controversy sells. I can handle controversy. It’s the reason I’m a high ranking blogger. But this little impeachment hypothetical failed. Oh, well. On to the next post.
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Update III (4/14): You know, I’ve been thinking about that “play the race card” statement. I don’t think I will. If I ever criticized someone else for doing it, I’d be a hypocrite. I’ll just do what I’ve always done: blog about why illegal immigration is bad for all Americans.
Update II: Katherine Kersten says, “Start immigration reform with those who follow the law…Obviously, many illegal immigrants are good folks, striving to better their families. But they have broken the law to get here. That’s why many Americans find it unsettling to see them pumping their fists and shouting grievances in the streets — cheered on by their American ’social justice’ allies.”
I’m often subjected to e-mail sermons from Christians chastising me for speaking out against border-jumpers. I long to hear some of these same people tell me how they’ve also chastised Christ-professing illegal aliens for disregarding another nation’s laws for their own gain. Just one such anecdote will do. You know how to reach me. If you’re a Christ-following illegal alien, I eagerly await your response/defense.
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It is in a strong nation’s best interest to maintain its culture and heritage, and that largely depends on who that nation allows to cross its borders and why.
America is strong and great for good reasons, but many of us act as though it sprung fully formed from the earth, with freedom fully intact. America’s graveyards are filled with people who helped build this nation into what it is today, people who fought and bled and died to make sure we remained free and for the rule of law to prevail.
“Rule of law” is a western ideal, one that has allowed us to be a beacon of justice and a land where the poorest of the earth can fulfill his dreams and live his life in peace.
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Silly Democrats, tricks are for kids! Last Friday I was a bit upset by our friends in the print media. Led by the nose, papers like the WaPo parroted the NYTimes ‘pimp my book pre-sales’ account of how George Bush was tapping your 79-year-old grandmum’s phone line. As if making her wait long periods in uncomfortable positions at all hours in the AM at the security check at the airport isn’t enough … but I digress.
What upset me was that instead of being proud of the U.S.’ contribution to a significant and long-lasting geopolitical event – namely the successful parliamentary elections in Iraq – the party out of power took a cheap shot at my country’s international prestige by making something necessarily covert sound illegal. Add to this insult that neither the NYTimes nor WaPo would put an effort into uncovering the person who disclosed these secret details with the same fervor as they’ve covered PlameGate … but I digress.
The point is, despite their best efforts, the old media was minimally successful in steering the public’s attention away from the Bush administration’s successes (on behalf of the U.S.). What they should realized that if they really wanted to refocus the news cycle by stomping some poor Texan into the turf, they really need only focus their energies and finances into Joe Gibbs – whose Iraq-election like victory over “America’s Team” is all the buzz in our (my) Nation’s Capital.
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As you can tell, I’ve been enjoying my guest stint here at La Shawn’s in part because it has given me a chance to flag some opinions that often lead to copious complaintage over at blogs4God.com. Especially when I poke fun at the hypocrisy of the main stream media. Of course, some times the MSM does the work for me … like today …
In the interest of love and tolerance the University of Connecticut chapter of Students Against Hate, lead by journalism and social welfare major Eric Knudsen, shouted-down Ann Coulter while she gave a speech on the UConn campus.
The WaPo is reporting that Saddam’s trial is proceeding as scheduled after a one day delay due to a Harry Ried-like boycott – because of an unjust trial. Gee, wonder where Hussein got that Ramsey Clark-ish idea? What’s next, a Howard Dean meme that Saddam was just minding his own business, that Bush should be on trial? Please refer to the larger/legible version on the magazine cover to the right for a ‘clearer picture.’
David Broder opines not so poetically about the good old days, like you know, when speaker Tom Foley was in charge during the House post office scandal and the gifts-for-trips improprieties in the early 1990s. Perhaps Mr. Broder is just grumpy because last night’s tax relief legislation didn’t include casinos, country clubs, hot tub facilities, liquor stores, massage parlors, golf courses, racetracks and tanning salons?
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Hube here again. I posted this late yesterday over at my home site, The Colossus of Rhodey with the updates from this morning:
Breaking news: a 44 year old American was shot and killed by air marshals at Miami Airport earlier today:
A passenger who claimed to have a bomb in a carry-on bag was shot and killed by a federal air marshal Wednesday on a jetway connected to an American Airlines plane that had just arrived at Miami International Airport from Colombia, officials said.
Homeland Security spokesman Brian Doyle said after the plane had parked at the gate, a passenger indicated there was a bomb in the passenger’s carryon bag. The passenger was confronted by air marshals but ran off the plane.
A team of air marshals pursued and ordered the passenger to get on the ground. The passenger did not comply and was shot when apparently reaching into a bag, Doyle said. He said this is the first time an air marshal has shot at a passenger or suspect.
I’m willing to bet one or more of the following will happen shortly:
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Like many of you, I’ve been sitting around waiting for someone else to interpret the 100,000 page snow-storm the launched by the office of Kathleen Babineaux Blanco late last week. Fortunately, our man in the field, completely rested from her behind-the-scenes work at the GodBlogCon was able to intercept an incoming email from Blanco’s man behind the curtain:
Received: from alpha.bubbabill.org (alpha.bubbabill.org [127.0.0.1])
by mail.bubbabill.org (8.8.5) id 004A21; Sun, Nov 04 2005 04:36:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Big Kahna <bigkahuna@bubbabill.org>
To: Kathleen Babineaux Blanco <lagov@linknet.net>
Date: Sun, Nov 04 2005 04:36:14 PST
Message-Id: <bigkahuna031897143614-00000298@mail.bubbabill.org>
X-Mailer: Agripak AG-26
Subject: Effective use of victim card – part deux
Way to go Babs!
Even if your latest ‘Blame Bush’ salvo doesn’t rehab your sagging poll numbers, I’ve mentioned to Hillary that it may be ‘diplomatic’ to have a French-speaking Creole team player ’ in 09, if you know what I mean.
I see you took my advice to launch an avalanche of white stuff on the eve of a weekend. Not only did it have the desired effect of keeping the pajama-bloggers and Limbaugh offline, but looks like the WaPo in hopes of beating the NYTimes to the punch just parroted your cover sheet. Cool beans!
That said, now you need to prep for the counter-punch. At some point, someone is going to read all 100,000 pages and realize that you only selected transmissions occurring after the hurricane hit. Let’s hope no one puts together stuff such as your request for your non-Nagin busses occurring after the streets were flooded.
The way to do this is to keep the focus on Bush. Even though it’s not his job to micromanage the details of individual state emergency planning, my eight years in office has trained the public well in thinking the Potus as their ‘Sugar Daddy.’
But enough about me, here are the type of things those knuckle-dragging red-staters might bring up, and here is how you respond:
When they mention mismanagement of the levee funds, ignore indiscretions such as diverting 2.5 million to various Mardi Gras concerns, instead, focus on Bush’s cuts to the Lake Pontchartrain project. Link it all to Iraq if you can … just hope no one realizes that this project, though 90% done since 1965, wasn’t slated for completion until 2010 … and of that, most for a Cat 3 hurricane … But I digress …
BTW, get back to me next week if I don’t offer you some spin for the millions donated – and the millions more in pork headed your way.
Speaking of gimmee, gimmee, gimmee – if and when someone understands your request “to send us everything you’ve got†as a request for Federal resources without Federal oversight, just make an emotional appeal like “while they’re lawyers were busy playing with posse comitatus as a means of making GW look like the hero, we were hard at work emailing requests …†Hopefully the mention of lawyers and legal gibberish will enrage the public and get them to ignore the fact that you could have picked-up the phone anytime – provided GW hadn’t called first.
If blaming GW doesn’t get it done, or if people demand pre-hurricane documents, I suggest placing the blame on that republican-loving ninny Nagin. This tactic is especially important if and when people make the argument that Louisiana was already broken.
For example, if some blogger mentions that LA was 2nd worst in crime, blame it on the murder rate in New Orleans. For good measure, go ahead and throw in the New Orlean’s residency requirement for police officers – the public is usually too dumb to realize the impact of trying to obtain officers from the most crime-ridden neighborhoods.
Likewise, if someone mentions that the LA economy was 2nd to last in GDP, blame the loss of 22,000 residents since 2000 – blame it on Katrina. Seriously! I mean who other than wonks care about growth rates? Even if they do, just deflect their attention to the New Orleans unemployment rate and that meme about people waiting for their welfare checks.
I know it sounds like a lot of blame-shifting, but take it from someone who’s been there and done that, the only way you’re going to shake that the Nation’s worst governors label is to pass the buck, pass the buck, pass the buck.
Oh, while it’s on my mind, make sure you get your employees chargeable hours in order – Hillary can give you more details on how all this works.
One other thing to avoid, next time you do that inauguration thing? Avoid the French speaking thing, at least until we can figure out what to do with the Kerry problem.
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Bubba 1
p.s. – when you get a chance, could you drop in a kind word about me to Mary Landrieu? There’s something so Monica about her that I find irresistible!
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