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Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
22 bags of garbage were left at Rep Koble office
Twenty-two bags of garbage were left leaning against
the door of Rep. Jim Kolbe's (R-AZ) office in Sierra
Vista, Arizona.
(See http://www.svherald.com/articles/2003/09/29/news/news1.txt) The garbage was gathered earlier that day from a lay-up site used by illegal aliens as they crossed through Cochise County, Arizona on their way north. The garbage was unsightly, smelly, and prevented access to Congressman Kolbe's office until it was removed. The illegal alien garbage was stuffed into bags provided by Cochise County which are clearly labeled "Cochise County UDA Cleanup". (UDA means "Undocumented Aliens". Sanitation engineers were forced to come and remove the trash and to sanitize the sidewalk upon which the trash sat and the wall and door against which the trash was leaned in order for Rep. Kolbe's office to resume normal operations.
Until now, no one has taken responsibility for this
act of protest against Kolbe's failed border policies.
No one has come forward to claim credit for this act
against the Congressman who is sponsoring a stealth
amnesty "guest worker" bill (HR2899) which will lead
to even more illegal aliens and thus more illegal
alien trash in our desert and backyards.
No one has put their name to this act against Kolbe
who defies 70% of Arizona citizens when he opposes
the Protect Arizona Now Initiative
(The Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act).
No one has said, "I did it!" when it comes to this
protest against Rep. Kolbe who has, every time,
voted against allowing INS and now DHS to request
military assistance on the border. No one has
stepped forward as the perpetrator of this act against
Kolbe who is primarily responsible for the
dismantling of the Border Patrol checkpoints
on the highways north in Cochise County.
No one has claimed responsibility,
until now.
I, the Undersigned, claim responsibility for this act
of protest against Rep. Jim Kolbe and his failed
border policies.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
the door of Rep. Jim Kolbe's (R-AZ) office in Sierra
Vista, Arizona.
(See http://www.svherald.com/articles/2003/09/29/news/news1.txt) The garbage was gathered earlier that day from a lay-up site used by illegal aliens as they crossed through Cochise County, Arizona on their way north. The garbage was unsightly, smelly, and prevented access to Congressman Kolbe's office until it was removed. The illegal alien garbage was stuffed into bags provided by Cochise County which are clearly labeled "Cochise County UDA Cleanup". (UDA means "Undocumented Aliens". Sanitation engineers were forced to come and remove the trash and to sanitize the sidewalk upon which the trash sat and the wall and door against which the trash was leaned in order for Rep. Kolbe's office to resume normal operations.
Until now, no one has taken responsibility for this
act of protest against Kolbe's failed border policies.
No one has come forward to claim credit for this act
against the Congressman who is sponsoring a stealth
amnesty "guest worker" bill (HR2899) which will lead
to even more illegal aliens and thus more illegal
alien trash in our desert and backyards.
No one has put their name to this act against Kolbe
who defies 70% of Arizona citizens when he opposes
the Protect Arizona Now Initiative
(The Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act).
No one has said, "I did it!" when it comes to this
protest against Rep. Kolbe who has, every time,
voted against allowing INS and now DHS to request
military assistance on the border. No one has
stepped forward as the perpetrator of this act against
Kolbe who is primarily responsible for the
dismantling of the Border Patrol checkpoints
on the highways north in Cochise County.
No one has claimed responsibility,
until now.
I, the Undersigned, claim responsibility for this act
of protest against Rep. Jim Kolbe and his failed
border policies.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Rep. Jim Kolbe will not seek re election
Rep. Jim Kolbe will not seek re election
Rep. Jim Kolbe
the only gay Republican in Congress,
announced Wednesday that he will not seek
a 12th term next year, and cited Washington's
increasingly partisan atmosphere as one reason
he's leaving.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051124/ap_on_el_ho/kolbe_re_election
Rep. Jim Kolbe
the only gay Republican in Congress,
announced Wednesday that he will not seek
a 12th term next year, and cited Washington's
increasingly partisan atmosphere as one reason
he's leaving.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051124/ap_on_el_ho/kolbe_re_election
Monday, November 21, 2005
McCain, Graham Warn GOP May Be in Trouble
McCain, Graham Warn GOP May Be in Trouble
With the war in Iraq, higher energy costs and breakneck government spending, the GOP faces a tough round of congressional elections in 2006 unless things change, two key Republican senators warned during a campaign appearance.
"I think if this were not an odd-numbered year, we would have great difficulties," said U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
McCain and fellow-Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were interviewed by The Associated Press when they stopped here Sunday night to campaign for Republican state Attorney General Henry McMaster.
"But we can recover," McCain said. "Reagan recovered. Clinton recovered. We can recover."
The party must show "progress in Iraq, we need a comprehensive energy package and we need to stop this profligate spending," he warned.
"If the election were tomorrow, we'd be in trouble," agreed Graham, who said the party must work to cut spending.
"If we really want to do well in 2006, we need to have fiscal discipline like Republicans campaigned on," he said. "We have lost our way as a party. Our base is deflated and taxpayers don't see any difference between us and the Democrats."
Graham said the party has to again reach the voters.
"You don't have to stop being conservative, you got to start connecting," he said, adding "we need to adjust and if we don't adjust, we're going to be in trouble."
The party, he said, must be honest enough to admit that things aren't going as well as hoped in Iraq.
"Democrats who have this cut-and-run strategy _ the public doesn't want to follow that. They want to follow Republicans who understand the war is not going as well as it should but who understand that our security is better off with a successful outcome in Iraq," he said.
The message in Iraq, McCain said, "is we are making progress, we have to make progress and we regret the loss of every single young American. But the benefits of success are enormous."
McCain has been mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2008. He said he will not make a decision on a race until after next year's elections.
McCain, looking at Graham, told the crowd of about 100 people that "some people have said this might be a very attractive vice presidential candidate."
The crowd clapped and whistled. Graham simply smiled.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/21/D8E1450G1.html
With the war in Iraq, higher energy costs and breakneck government spending, the GOP faces a tough round of congressional elections in 2006 unless things change, two key Republican senators warned during a campaign appearance.
"I think if this were not an odd-numbered year, we would have great difficulties," said U.S. Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
McCain and fellow-Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina were interviewed by The Associated Press when they stopped here Sunday night to campaign for Republican state Attorney General Henry McMaster.
"But we can recover," McCain said. "Reagan recovered. Clinton recovered. We can recover."
The party must show "progress in Iraq, we need a comprehensive energy package and we need to stop this profligate spending," he warned.
"If the election were tomorrow, we'd be in trouble," agreed Graham, who said the party must work to cut spending.
"If we really want to do well in 2006, we need to have fiscal discipline like Republicans campaigned on," he said. "We have lost our way as a party. Our base is deflated and taxpayers don't see any difference between us and the Democrats."
Graham said the party has to again reach the voters.
"You don't have to stop being conservative, you got to start connecting," he said, adding "we need to adjust and if we don't adjust, we're going to be in trouble."
The party, he said, must be honest enough to admit that things aren't going as well as hoped in Iraq.
"Democrats who have this cut-and-run strategy _ the public doesn't want to follow that. They want to follow Republicans who understand the war is not going as well as it should but who understand that our security is better off with a successful outcome in Iraq," he said.
The message in Iraq, McCain said, "is we are making progress, we have to make progress and we regret the loss of every single young American. But the benefits of success are enormous."
McCain has been mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2008. He said he will not make a decision on a race until after next year's elections.
McCain, looking at Graham, told the crowd of about 100 people that "some people have said this might be a very attractive vice presidential candidate."
The crowd clapped and whistled. Graham simply smiled.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/21/D8E1450G1.html
Sunday, November 20, 2005
more info on senator mccain
Q: Back in December the GOP candidates were asked at a group debate to name their favorite philosophers. George W. Bush said Jesus Christ; John McCain said Teddy Roosevelt. Which has been, in his behavior since, more true to his philosopher?
A: TR is no doubt spinning in his grave.
~ ~ ~
Perhaps to understand John Sidney McCain III, we must start at the (practical) beginning.
He was known among many of his Vietnam flight buddies as "Ace" McCain. This title was not bestowed because he destroyed five enemy aircraft. On the contrary: It was five on our side — in fact, five of his own. Since throwing his hat into the presidential ring, the fact that McCain was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy nearly at the bottom of his class has not been much publicized. Still less has been his reckless, incompetent flying.
It wasn’t long after arriving in Pensacola that McCain racked up the first of his five crashes, beginning in 1958, on his way to becoming a "reverse ace." As told by McCain biographer Robert Timberg, "McCain was practicing landings; his engine quit and he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom." There was, however, no engine failure with the aircraft. According to one of McCain’s former flight instructors, "The engine was removed from the aircraft that afternoon, mounted on a test stand and a new propeller installed. [It] was flushed with fresh water and started. It ran just fine. So the theory of engine failure was proven false." The instructor added that McCain was "positively one of the weakest students to pass our way, and received consistently poor marks and a number of Dangerous Down grades assigned by more than one instructor. He had no real ability and was clearly out of his element in an airplane, and way over his head even as a junior naval officer."
The second of McCain’s crashes occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. "Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula," reports Timberg, "he took out some power lines which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral."
Crash three occurred when McCain was returning from flying a trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. According to Timberg, McCain radioed, "I’ve got a flameout." He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet, he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Despite all this, by 1967, McCain was somehow deemed ready for battle and assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While seated in the cockpit of his aircraft waiting for takeoff, a freak accident occurred when a rocket slammed into the exterior fuel tank of McCain’s plane. Miraculously, McCain escaped from the burning aircraft, but dozens of his shipmates were killed and injured in the explosions that followed.
McCain’s final downing came just three months later when his A-4 was hit by antiaircraft artillery over Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi, North Vietnam. McCain spent the next five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war and, upon return to the United States in 1973, like the other returning POWs, McCain became an instant hero. The POWs had been treated abominably, yet stood up to their torturers and were deserving of the accolades they received. But some questioned the number and types of medals bestowed upon "Ace" McCain, the son of the admiral commanding in the Pacific as well as the grandson of another admiral.
"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. "Since McCain got 28 medals," Bell continues, "that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys — grunts on the ground — who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down."
Why all of the above matters is that the Arizona senator is purporting to be running a campaign based not primarily upon issues but upon "biography" and "character." That is certainly the core of his appeal to so-called independents and Democrat crossovers. Yet the truth is that his biography is exaggerated at best. The appellation "war hero" should be an embarrassment to him, and certainly an insult to genuine war heroes like, well, Bob Dole and George Bush the Elder, whose exploits exceeded by quite a bit mishaps stemming from not being sure which end of the cockpit to face. And if McCain possessed the level of character he claims, he would be embarrassed.
Far from it. He revels in his "war hero" image; wallows in it, really. So much so that he ridicules Bush the Younger's National Guard service and GHWB's alleged string-pulling to get it for him even though Sailor would have been drummed out of the Navy for all his foul-ups were his sire and grandsire not amongst the top brass.
The effect of that seems to have been to develop within McCain an entitlement mentality. One that has grown a pace with his political ambitions. Only difference is, now his elders aren't around to clean up his messes for him.
McCain points to his eighteen years in Congress as the kind of experience needed to run the country as President. Yet the bulk of that time he has simply taken up space. He has no noteworthy legislative achievements to his name. The closest thing he has attained to a reputation is for being remarkably arrogant and ill-tempered with colleagues, to the point of blithering, profanity-laced rages against any who don't see things the way he does. Which is part & parcel of why so few GOP members in either house have endorsed him.
McCain, in a belated effort to reach out to the Republican base he's been figuratively kneeing in the collective groin in recent months, points to his career voting record as proof that he's a "Reagan Republican." Which is a little like Krusty the Clown claiming Fred Rogers as his professional mentor.
Through about 1996 "Sailor's" claim is true. Since then his record has moved considerably leftward - again, concurrent with his national political ambitions.
And now? He favors evisceration of the First Amendment via another spasm of so-called campaign finance reform. He opposes real Medicare reform and supports greater spending on it instead. He supports the so-called Patient's Bill of Rights, which would be a boon to trial lawyers. He was a big backer of the shakedown of Big Tobacco and still favors ratcheting up cigarette taxes. He opposes "meaningful" tax cuts and uses leftish class warfare rhetoric to criticize Governor Bush's rather modest proposal. He is now squishy on abortion, as evidenced by his answer to the hypothetical question of a pregnant daughter that "it would be her decision." And he was one of the few enthusiastic Republican backers of Bill Clinton's aggression against Yugoslavia a year ago.
Is that "growing in office"? Has he "changed his mind," or "gained a broader perspective"? If so, fine; let him say so. And he was, as long as it was helping him hijack a few early GOP primaries. Now come the serious contests, most of them Republican-only, and overnight he's a born-again Reaganite. Hardly the way to build a "new coalition."
What's more, it's difficult to take even his dogged, passionate stumping for campaign finance reform very seriously, if only because it was his own dalliance with Charles Keating that almost destroyed his political career. Was a reformer born that day, the scales fallen from his eyes? Or did he figure he had to sell out in order to survive, and picked the issue most likely to curry the favor of the Beltway press?
In any case, his hypocrisy on his core issue continues to this day. Really, how much credibility does any man have to claim to be an "outsider" when he is the Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee in his day job? How much credibility does he have when the "special interests" of which he claims to be the nemesis are big contributors to his campaign, and lend him corporate jets to whisk him around the country? How much of a "reformer" is he when he violates federal spending limits in state after state and rolls over some $2 million in cash left over from his last Senate re-election warchest - both actions he endless and sanctimoniously condemns in others?
He's only playing by the rules? But if he seeks to tighten those rules, shouldn't he live by his higher standard to set a "good example"?
Still, phonies and hypocrites in politics are a dime a dozen.
And then "Ace" McCain went to Virginia Beach.
And all hell broke loose.
more info at................
http://home.comcast.net/~jimsondergeld/McCainiatheMan.html
A: TR is no doubt spinning in his grave.
~ ~ ~
Perhaps to understand John Sidney McCain III, we must start at the (practical) beginning.
He was known among many of his Vietnam flight buddies as "Ace" McCain. This title was not bestowed because he destroyed five enemy aircraft. On the contrary: It was five on our side — in fact, five of his own. Since throwing his hat into the presidential ring, the fact that McCain was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy nearly at the bottom of his class has not been much publicized. Still less has been his reckless, incompetent flying.
It wasn’t long after arriving in Pensacola that McCain racked up the first of his five crashes, beginning in 1958, on his way to becoming a "reverse ace." As told by McCain biographer Robert Timberg, "McCain was practicing landings; his engine quit and he plunged into Corpus Christi Bay. Knocked unconscious by the impact, he came to as the plane settled to the bottom." There was, however, no engine failure with the aircraft. According to one of McCain’s former flight instructors, "The engine was removed from the aircraft that afternoon, mounted on a test stand and a new propeller installed. [It] was flushed with fresh water and started. It ran just fine. So the theory of engine failure was proven false." The instructor added that McCain was "positively one of the weakest students to pass our way, and received consistently poor marks and a number of Dangerous Down grades assigned by more than one instructor. He had no real ability and was clearly out of his element in an airplane, and way over his head even as a junior naval officer."
The second of McCain’s crashes occurred while he was deployed in the Mediterranean. "Flying too low over the Iberian Peninsula," reports Timberg, "he took out some power lines which led to a spate of newspaper stories in which he was predictably identified as the son of an admiral."
Crash three occurred when McCain was returning from flying a trainer solo to Philadelphia for an Army-Navy football game. According to Timberg, McCain radioed, "I’ve got a flameout." He went through the standard relight procedures three times. At one thousand feet, he ejected, landing on the deserted beach moments before the plane slammed into a clump of trees."
Despite all this, by 1967, McCain was somehow deemed ready for battle and assigned to the USS Forrestal as an A-4 Skyhawk pilot. While seated in the cockpit of his aircraft waiting for takeoff, a freak accident occurred when a rocket slammed into the exterior fuel tank of McCain’s plane. Miraculously, McCain escaped from the burning aircraft, but dozens of his shipmates were killed and injured in the explosions that followed.
McCain’s final downing came just three months later when his A-4 was hit by antiaircraft artillery over Truc Bach Lake near Hanoi, North Vietnam. McCain spent the next five-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war and, upon return to the United States in 1973, like the other returning POWs, McCain became an instant hero. The POWs had been treated abominably, yet stood up to their torturers and were deserving of the accolades they received. But some questioned the number and types of medals bestowed upon "Ace" McCain, the son of the admiral commanding in the Pacific as well as the grandson of another admiral.
"McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat," explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs — the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. "Since McCain got 28 medals," Bell continues, "that equals out to about a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys — grunts on the ground — who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison. The question really is how many guys got that number of medals for not being shot down."
Why all of the above matters is that the Arizona senator is purporting to be running a campaign based not primarily upon issues but upon "biography" and "character." That is certainly the core of his appeal to so-called independents and Democrat crossovers. Yet the truth is that his biography is exaggerated at best. The appellation "war hero" should be an embarrassment to him, and certainly an insult to genuine war heroes like, well, Bob Dole and George Bush the Elder, whose exploits exceeded by quite a bit mishaps stemming from not being sure which end of the cockpit to face. And if McCain possessed the level of character he claims, he would be embarrassed.
Far from it. He revels in his "war hero" image; wallows in it, really. So much so that he ridicules Bush the Younger's National Guard service and GHWB's alleged string-pulling to get it for him even though Sailor would have been drummed out of the Navy for all his foul-ups were his sire and grandsire not amongst the top brass.
The effect of that seems to have been to develop within McCain an entitlement mentality. One that has grown a pace with his political ambitions. Only difference is, now his elders aren't around to clean up his messes for him.
McCain points to his eighteen years in Congress as the kind of experience needed to run the country as President. Yet the bulk of that time he has simply taken up space. He has no noteworthy legislative achievements to his name. The closest thing he has attained to a reputation is for being remarkably arrogant and ill-tempered with colleagues, to the point of blithering, profanity-laced rages against any who don't see things the way he does. Which is part & parcel of why so few GOP members in either house have endorsed him.
McCain, in a belated effort to reach out to the Republican base he's been figuratively kneeing in the collective groin in recent months, points to his career voting record as proof that he's a "Reagan Republican." Which is a little like Krusty the Clown claiming Fred Rogers as his professional mentor.
Through about 1996 "Sailor's" claim is true. Since then his record has moved considerably leftward - again, concurrent with his national political ambitions.
And now? He favors evisceration of the First Amendment via another spasm of so-called campaign finance reform. He opposes real Medicare reform and supports greater spending on it instead. He supports the so-called Patient's Bill of Rights, which would be a boon to trial lawyers. He was a big backer of the shakedown of Big Tobacco and still favors ratcheting up cigarette taxes. He opposes "meaningful" tax cuts and uses leftish class warfare rhetoric to criticize Governor Bush's rather modest proposal. He is now squishy on abortion, as evidenced by his answer to the hypothetical question of a pregnant daughter that "it would be her decision." And he was one of the few enthusiastic Republican backers of Bill Clinton's aggression against Yugoslavia a year ago.
Is that "growing in office"? Has he "changed his mind," or "gained a broader perspective"? If so, fine; let him say so. And he was, as long as it was helping him hijack a few early GOP primaries. Now come the serious contests, most of them Republican-only, and overnight he's a born-again Reaganite. Hardly the way to build a "new coalition."
What's more, it's difficult to take even his dogged, passionate stumping for campaign finance reform very seriously, if only because it was his own dalliance with Charles Keating that almost destroyed his political career. Was a reformer born that day, the scales fallen from his eyes? Or did he figure he had to sell out in order to survive, and picked the issue most likely to curry the favor of the Beltway press?
In any case, his hypocrisy on his core issue continues to this day. Really, how much credibility does any man have to claim to be an "outsider" when he is the Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee in his day job? How much credibility does he have when the "special interests" of which he claims to be the nemesis are big contributors to his campaign, and lend him corporate jets to whisk him around the country? How much of a "reformer" is he when he violates federal spending limits in state after state and rolls over some $2 million in cash left over from his last Senate re-election warchest - both actions he endless and sanctimoniously condemns in others?
He's only playing by the rules? But if he seeks to tighten those rules, shouldn't he live by his higher standard to set a "good example"?
Still, phonies and hypocrites in politics are a dime a dozen.
And then "Ace" McCain went to Virginia Beach.
And all hell broke loose.
more info at................
http://home.comcast.net/~jimsondergeld/McCainiatheMan.html
Monday, November 14, 2005
Bush to promote fund raiser for Senator Kyl in Phoenix on 11/28
Bush to promote fund raiser for Senator Kyl in Phoenix on 11/28
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Press Release - State GOP Delighted to Welcome President Back to Arizona
Contact: Colin McCracken
602-957-7770
Phoenix - The Arizona Republican Party is proud
to welcome President George W. Bush back to the
great state of Arizona on Monday, November 28, 2005.
This will be the President’s second visit to
Arizona since winning the state by 11% in 2004.
The President will be in Phoenix to raise significant
dollars for the re-election campaign of United
States Senator Jon Kyl.
Arizona was a sizeable factor in the President’s
victory last year, and his presence will raise vital
campaign funds for our targeted Senator,
said Bill Christiansen, Executive Director
of the Arizona Republican Party.
Arizona is Bush Country.
see more at........
http://www.azgop.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=195
Bush to rally for Senato Kyl on 11/28
Mark your calendars, Bush lovers.
The prez is coming back to Arizona.
President Bush makes his 13th visit to the Grand
Canyon State on Nov. 28, when he'll be the star attraction at a fund-raiser for Sen. Jon Kyl.
Bill Christiansen, executive director of the
state Republican Party, issued a statement
last week saying Bush "will raise vital campaign funds"
for the two-term senator.
see more ............
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/allheadlines/102360.php
Thursday, November 10, 2005
Press Release - State GOP Delighted to Welcome President Back to Arizona
Contact: Colin McCracken
602-957-7770
Phoenix - The Arizona Republican Party is proud
to welcome President George W. Bush back to the
great state of Arizona on Monday, November 28, 2005.
This will be the President’s second visit to
Arizona since winning the state by 11% in 2004.
The President will be in Phoenix to raise significant
dollars for the re-election campaign of United
States Senator Jon Kyl.
Arizona was a sizeable factor in the President’s
victory last year, and his presence will raise vital
campaign funds for our targeted Senator,
said Bill Christiansen, Executive Director
of the Arizona Republican Party.
Arizona is Bush Country.
see more at........
http://www.azgop.org/News/Read.aspx?ID=195
Bush to rally for Senato Kyl on 11/28
Mark your calendars, Bush lovers.
The prez is coming back to Arizona.
President Bush makes his 13th visit to the Grand
Canyon State on Nov. 28, when he'll be the star attraction at a fund-raiser for Sen. Jon Kyl.
Bill Christiansen, executive director of the
state Republican Party, issued a statement
last week saying Bush "will raise vital campaign funds"
for the two-term senator.
see more ............
http://www.azstarnet.com/dailystar/allheadlines/102360.php
Thursday, November 10, 2005
How Senator Teddy Kennedy uses offshore trusts to shelter his money from U.S. taxes
How Senator Teddy Kennedy uses offshore trusts to shelter his money from U.S. taxes
New book..........
Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy."
Ann Coulter makes crystal clear how she feels about Peter Schweizer's new book, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy."
Ann announced today on her Web site that she believes this book yes, this book alone is the "Book of the Century!"
Ann has been battling hypocritical liberals for years and
she has, no doubt, found profound solace in a book that
proves her liberal opponents more times than not dont
practice what they preach.
Ann recommends this must-read book because, as she says,
you’ll even "learn how to shelter your money in the Cayman Islands like liberals!"
How Teddy Kennedy uses off shore tax shelter to aviod millions in taxes.
Of course you will. Because Peter Schweizer exposes big-name liberals like Teddy Kennedy and George Soros who have used offshore trusts to shelter their money from U.S. taxes while they complain that the rich are not taxed enough!
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what Schweizer uncovered.
There’s more, including:
Air America radio host Al Franken says conservatives are
racist because they lack diversity and oppose affirmative action. But fewer than 1 percent of the people he has hired over the past 15 years have been African-American.
It gets worse.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken in favor of the estate tax, and in 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it.
But the Clintons have set up a contract trust that allows them to substantially reduce the amount of inheritance tax
their estate will pay when they die.
Hillary, for her part, has written and spoken extensively
about the right of children to make major decisions
regarding their own lives, such as having an abortion
without parental consent. But she barred 13-year-old daughter Chelsea from getting her ears pierced and forbade her
to watch MTV or HBO.
Barbra Streisand has talked about the necessity of
unions to protect a "living wage." But she prefers
to do her filming and post-production work in Canada,
where she can pay less than American union wages.
Schweizer sums up his book this way: "The reality is
that liberals like to preach in moral platitudes.
They like to condemn ordinary Americans and Republicans
for a whole host of things - racism, lack of concern
for the poor, polluting the environment, and greed.
But when it comes to applying those same standards to themselves, liberals are found to be shockingly guilty of hypocrisy.
"The media and the American people need to hold them accountable."
Ann Coulter: This Is ‘Book of the Century’
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/8/153908.shtml
New book..........
Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy."
Ann Coulter makes crystal clear how she feels about Peter Schweizer's new book, "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy."
Ann announced today on her Web site that she believes this book yes, this book alone is the "Book of the Century!"
Ann has been battling hypocritical liberals for years and
she has, no doubt, found profound solace in a book that
proves her liberal opponents more times than not dont
practice what they preach.
Ann recommends this must-read book because, as she says,
you’ll even "learn how to shelter your money in the Cayman Islands like liberals!"
How Teddy Kennedy uses off shore tax shelter to aviod millions in taxes.
Of course you will. Because Peter Schweizer exposes big-name liberals like Teddy Kennedy and George Soros who have used offshore trusts to shelter their money from U.S. taxes while they complain that the rich are not taxed enough!
This is just the tip of the iceberg of what Schweizer uncovered.
There’s more, including:
Air America radio host Al Franken says conservatives are
racist because they lack diversity and oppose affirmative action. But fewer than 1 percent of the people he has hired over the past 15 years have been African-American.
It gets worse.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have spoken in favor of the estate tax, and in 2000 Bill vetoed a bill seeking to end it.
But the Clintons have set up a contract trust that allows them to substantially reduce the amount of inheritance tax
their estate will pay when they die.
Hillary, for her part, has written and spoken extensively
about the right of children to make major decisions
regarding their own lives, such as having an abortion
without parental consent. But she barred 13-year-old daughter Chelsea from getting her ears pierced and forbade her
to watch MTV or HBO.
Barbra Streisand has talked about the necessity of
unions to protect a "living wage." But she prefers
to do her filming and post-production work in Canada,
where she can pay less than American union wages.
Schweizer sums up his book this way: "The reality is
that liberals like to preach in moral platitudes.
They like to condemn ordinary Americans and Republicans
for a whole host of things - racism, lack of concern
for the poor, polluting the environment, and greed.
But when it comes to applying those same standards to themselves, liberals are found to be shockingly guilty of hypocrisy.
"The media and the American people need to hold them accountable."
Ann Coulter: This Is ‘Book of the Century’
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/8/153908.shtml
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Senator Mccain sells /outsources over 368,000 American jobs
Senator Mccain sells over 368,000 American jobs a year to a combination of immigrants, foreign guest workers,
Reminder - Hold Your Senators Accountable for Rejecting Byrd Amendment to Stop Major Foreign Worker/Immigration Increase
Remember to hold your senators accountable this week for their vote on Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-WV) amendment to strip the massive foreign worker/immigration increase from the Deficit Reduction bill. Sen. Byrd's amendment was rejected last Thursday by a 14-85 vote.
Click here to see how your senators voted, then call their offices to voice your approval or disapproval of their vote. Remember, a vote against the Byrd amendment is a vote for increasing immigration and displacing American workers with foreign labor.
(Call the Capitol Switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask to be connected or find your senators phone numbers here on our web site.)
Background:
Sen. Byrd's amendment would have replaced the Specter/Kennedy language which sells over 368,000 American jobs a year to a combination of immigrants, foreign guest workers, and their families, with the House Judiciary Committee proposal to raise fees on L-1 intra-company transferee visas. Byrd's amendment would have achieved the required savings without making wholesale changes to our immigration system.
Reminder - Hold Your Senators Accountable for Rejecting Byrd Amendment to Stop Major Foreign Worker/Immigration Increase
Remember to hold your senators accountable this week for their vote on Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-WV) amendment to strip the massive foreign worker/immigration increase from the Deficit Reduction bill. Sen. Byrd's amendment was rejected last Thursday by a 14-85 vote.
Click here to see how your senators voted, then call their offices to voice your approval or disapproval of their vote. Remember, a vote against the Byrd amendment is a vote for increasing immigration and displacing American workers with foreign labor.
(Call the Capitol Switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask to be connected or find your senators phone numbers here on our web site.)
Background:
Sen. Byrd's amendment would have replaced the Specter/Kennedy language which sells over 368,000 American jobs a year to a combination of immigrants, foreign guest workers, and their families, with the House Judiciary Committee proposal to raise fees on L-1 intra-company transferee visas. Byrd's amendment would have achieved the required savings without making wholesale changes to our immigration system.
Friday, November 04, 2005
Senate Sells Out American Workers:
Senate Sells Out American Workers: Rejects Byrd Amendment to Stop Major Foreign Worker/Immigration Increase
Thanks for making calls this week in support of Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-WV) amendment to strip the massive foreign worker/immigration increase from the Deficit Reduction bill. We received feedback that phones were ringing off the hook in Senate offices. I'm sorry to report that the Senate chose to sell out American workers yesterday, and rejected the Byrd amendment by a 14-85 vote.
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND OUT HOW YOUR SENATORS VOTED
Sen. Byrd's amendment would have replaced the Specter/Kennedy language which sells over 368,000 American jobs a year to a combination of immigrants, foreign guest workers, and their families, with the House Judiciary Committee proposal to raise fees on L-1 intra-company transferee visas. Byrd's amendment would have achieved the required savings without making wholesale changes to our immigration system.
This vote clearly demonstrates that the Senate is willing to pass major immigration and guest worker expansions without proper debate under the guise of reducing the deficit.
After voting down the Byrd amendment, the Senate approved the Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005 (S. 1932) by a 52-47 vote.
We will continue to fight this foreign worker/immigration increase as the reconciliation process moves towards the House/Senate conference stage.
HOLD YOUR SENATORS ACCOUNTABLE!
For now, take this vote as an opportunity to hold your senators accountable. Find out how they voted, then call their offices to voice your approval or disapproval of their vote. Remember, a vote against the Byrd amendment is a vote for increasing immigration and displacing American workers with foreign labor.
Call the Capitol Switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask to be connected or find your senators phone numbers here on our web site.
BACKGROUND:
Last week, without a public hearing or even a warning, the Senate Judiciary Committee inserted language authored by Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) that increases revenue by selling over 368,000 American jobs a year to foreign workers and their families who will enter the United States and stay permanently.
The Specter/Kennedy language would increase the number of H-1B workers by 30,000 each year, increase the number of permanent employment-based visas by 90,000 each year, and exempt families of these new workers from the 140,000 annual cap on employment-based immigration. This will add an estimated 278,000 family members - many of them will also find jobs in the United States - to the number of high tech and permanent new foreign workers allowed under the plan. If enacted, the Specter plan would constitute one of the largest immigration increases in American history under the guise of deficit reduction.
The Committee was charged with finding $60 million in FY 06 and $300 million over the period between FY 20006 and FY 2010. The Specter/Kennedy language raises fees on H-1B and permanent employment-based visas charged to employers to accomplish savings. Sen. Byrd's amendment would have striped out the Specter/Kennedy language and replaced it with the House Judiciary Committee proposal to raise the fees on L-1 intra-company transferees to $1,500 per visa. Sen. Byrd's amendment would have provided the required savings without making wholesale changes to our immigration system.
Thanks for making calls this week in support of Sen. Robert Byrd's (D-WV) amendment to strip the massive foreign worker/immigration increase from the Deficit Reduction bill. We received feedback that phones were ringing off the hook in Senate offices. I'm sorry to report that the Senate chose to sell out American workers yesterday, and rejected the Byrd amendment by a 14-85 vote.
FOLLOW THIS LINK TO FIND OUT HOW YOUR SENATORS VOTED
Sen. Byrd's amendment would have replaced the Specter/Kennedy language which sells over 368,000 American jobs a year to a combination of immigrants, foreign guest workers, and their families, with the House Judiciary Committee proposal to raise fees on L-1 intra-company transferee visas. Byrd's amendment would have achieved the required savings without making wholesale changes to our immigration system.
This vote clearly demonstrates that the Senate is willing to pass major immigration and guest worker expansions without proper debate under the guise of reducing the deficit.
After voting down the Byrd amendment, the Senate approved the Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005 (S. 1932) by a 52-47 vote.
We will continue to fight this foreign worker/immigration increase as the reconciliation process moves towards the House/Senate conference stage.
HOLD YOUR SENATORS ACCOUNTABLE!
For now, take this vote as an opportunity to hold your senators accountable. Find out how they voted, then call their offices to voice your approval or disapproval of their vote. Remember, a vote against the Byrd amendment is a vote for increasing immigration and displacing American workers with foreign labor.
Call the Capitol Switchboard (202-224-3121) and ask to be connected or find your senators phone numbers here on our web site.
BACKGROUND:
Last week, without a public hearing or even a warning, the Senate Judiciary Committee inserted language authored by Judiciary Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) and Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) that increases revenue by selling over 368,000 American jobs a year to foreign workers and their families who will enter the United States and stay permanently.
The Specter/Kennedy language would increase the number of H-1B workers by 30,000 each year, increase the number of permanent employment-based visas by 90,000 each year, and exempt families of these new workers from the 140,000 annual cap on employment-based immigration. This will add an estimated 278,000 family members - many of them will also find jobs in the United States - to the number of high tech and permanent new foreign workers allowed under the plan. If enacted, the Specter plan would constitute one of the largest immigration increases in American history under the guise of deficit reduction.
The Committee was charged with finding $60 million in FY 06 and $300 million over the period between FY 20006 and FY 2010. The Specter/Kennedy language raises fees on H-1B and permanent employment-based visas charged to employers to accomplish savings. Sen. Byrd's amendment would have striped out the Specter/Kennedy language and replaced it with the House Judiciary Committee proposal to raise the fees on L-1 intra-company transferees to $1,500 per visa. Sen. Byrd's amendment would have provided the required savings without making wholesale changes to our immigration system.
Thursday, November 03, 2005
another cronie ? Julie Myers declined to discuss her plan to address problems what the shit ?
another cronie ? Julie Myers declined to discuss her plan to address problems what the shit ?
If Julie Myers is confirmed as expected as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Homeland Security Department, one of her top priorities and major challenges will be repairing the agency’s financial integrity.
Federal auditors have singled out the agency’s financial management problems as particularly troublesome in the last year.
Myers told senators at her Sept. 15 nomination hearing that fixing ICE’s financial management will be paramount among her concerns. Myers said the problem stretches back to ICE’s creation in March 2003, when it was cobbled together from remnants of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Service. She said ICE was shortchanged in those early days of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security’s current and former inspectors general told lawmakers in July that ICE’s effort to provide accounting and other services to other department agencies during that time contributed to its budget shortfall. ICE and its customer bureaus did not agree on what ICE would provide and how much it would charge until late fiscal 2004, former IG Clark Kent Ervin said in a written statement to the House Government Reform subcommittee on government management, finance and accountability. By that point, ICE was left with a shortfall of between $200 million and $300 million, Ervin said.
Since then, Myers said, Congress ensured ICE received necessary funding, but the effects of that initial underfunding are still being felt.
The budget problems prompted a year-long hiring freeze that began in fall 2004, and some agents were forced to pay for their own gas and did not have enough money to pay confidential informants or use cell phones, Ervin said. ICE’s already-underfunded efforts to house arrested illegal aliens awaiting deportation also suffered further, he said.
Also, experienced financial staff began bolting in the summer of 2003 some to other Homeland Security bureaus delivering another blow to the agency’s financial management, Inspector General Richard Skinner said.
By fiscal 2004, ICE had fallen far behind in its basic accounting functions, Skinner said, such as balancing checkbooks and resolving bookkeeping anomalies.
Skinner said ICE’s accounting records were so bad that independent auditors could not tell whether the agency had broken federal law by spending more than it was budgeted.
ICE’s difficulties have affected the entire department by consuming large amounts of management time that could have gone to helping other agencies, Skinner said.
Myers on Sept. 15 pledged to get the agency’s financial house in order. But a major hurdle is that the agency still lacks enough financial managers, Myers said. She told senators one of her first tasks will be to hire a permanent chief financial officer.
Myers declined to discuss her plan to address the agency’s financial problems until after she is confirmed. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved her nomination in an Oct. 7 party-line vote; it now awaits a Senate vote.
Myers, now President Bush’s special assistant for personnel, was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Department in charge of investigating money laundering and financial crimes, an assistant secretary of Commerce for export enforcement, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s chief of staff when he was the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general.
Several senators from both parties, including Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, expressed concerns during Myers’ nomination hearing about her lack of experience with immigration issues. Running ICE, which has a $4 billion budget and more than 14,000 employees, is a vast step up from her Commerce position, where she oversaw 170 employees and a $25 million budget. Her tenure at Commerce was the largest management job she noted in written responses to Senate questions.
Republican senators’ subsequent conversations with Chertoff and Myers alleviated their concerns, and Myers’ nomination was passed out of committee. Before the committee approved Myers, Democrats such as Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut restated their misgivings.
Experts contacted by Federal Times said Myers is right to make improving finances a priority.
Former IG Ervin said that financial management problems will plague the agency until it can staff itself with enough qualified accountants and financial managers.
By STEPHEN LOSEY see more at ..........
http://federaltimes.com/index2.php?S=1212903
If Julie Myers is confirmed as expected as director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Homeland Security Department, one of her top priorities and major challenges will be repairing the agency’s financial integrity.
Federal auditors have singled out the agency’s financial management problems as particularly troublesome in the last year.
Myers told senators at her Sept. 15 nomination hearing that fixing ICE’s financial management will be paramount among her concerns. Myers said the problem stretches back to ICE’s creation in March 2003, when it was cobbled together from remnants of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and Customs Service. She said ICE was shortchanged in those early days of Homeland Security.
Homeland Security’s current and former inspectors general told lawmakers in July that ICE’s effort to provide accounting and other services to other department agencies during that time contributed to its budget shortfall. ICE and its customer bureaus did not agree on what ICE would provide and how much it would charge until late fiscal 2004, former IG Clark Kent Ervin said in a written statement to the House Government Reform subcommittee on government management, finance and accountability. By that point, ICE was left with a shortfall of between $200 million and $300 million, Ervin said.
Since then, Myers said, Congress ensured ICE received necessary funding, but the effects of that initial underfunding are still being felt.
The budget problems prompted a year-long hiring freeze that began in fall 2004, and some agents were forced to pay for their own gas and did not have enough money to pay confidential informants or use cell phones, Ervin said. ICE’s already-underfunded efforts to house arrested illegal aliens awaiting deportation also suffered further, he said.
Also, experienced financial staff began bolting in the summer of 2003 some to other Homeland Security bureaus delivering another blow to the agency’s financial management, Inspector General Richard Skinner said.
By fiscal 2004, ICE had fallen far behind in its basic accounting functions, Skinner said, such as balancing checkbooks and resolving bookkeeping anomalies.
Skinner said ICE’s accounting records were so bad that independent auditors could not tell whether the agency had broken federal law by spending more than it was budgeted.
ICE’s difficulties have affected the entire department by consuming large amounts of management time that could have gone to helping other agencies, Skinner said.
Myers on Sept. 15 pledged to get the agency’s financial house in order. But a major hurdle is that the agency still lacks enough financial managers, Myers said. She told senators one of her first tasks will be to hire a permanent chief financial officer.
Myers declined to discuss her plan to address the agency’s financial problems until after she is confirmed. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved her nomination in an Oct. 7 party-line vote; it now awaits a Senate vote.
Myers, now President Bush’s special assistant for personnel, was an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, a deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury Department in charge of investigating money laundering and financial crimes, an assistant secretary of Commerce for export enforcement, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff’s chief of staff when he was the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general.
Several senators from both parties, including Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio, expressed concerns during Myers’ nomination hearing about her lack of experience with immigration issues. Running ICE, which has a $4 billion budget and more than 14,000 employees, is a vast step up from her Commerce position, where she oversaw 170 employees and a $25 million budget. Her tenure at Commerce was the largest management job she noted in written responses to Senate questions.
Republican senators’ subsequent conversations with Chertoff and Myers alleviated their concerns, and Myers’ nomination was passed out of committee. Before the committee approved Myers, Democrats such as Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut restated their misgivings.
Experts contacted by Federal Times said Myers is right to make improving finances a priority.
Former IG Ervin said that financial management problems will plague the agency until it can staff itself with enough qualified accountants and financial managers.
By STEPHEN LOSEY see more at ..........
http://federaltimes.com/index2.php?S=1212903
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