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This just pisses me off to no end. I think a class action suit against the feds for failing to enforce the law is in order. Then we to sue every official involved for someting. Who cares what. Time to play for keeps before this whole obama hateing Arizona becomes a shooting event. Remember what happened in the communities outside Ruby Ridge????
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This just in...Bank Robbery surges nationwide as Court says that State law enforcement organizations have no role working in areas of the law under Federal control.
In related news, Federal organizations involved with local and state governments in matters relating to training their staffs on immigration enforcement agree to return money to the US Treasury now that the Federal courts have determined that local and state governments have no role in the enforcement of immigration law....
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07/06/2010 18:49 Comments ||
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My money is on AZ to win. Not only does Bambi have a dismal record in court, but AZ law mirrors federal law.
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Absolutely breath taking. Attack, attack, attack is his plan now before November against American citizens on behalf of citizens from another country in the United States illegally.
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07/06/2010 19:29 Comments ||
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Frank,
Obama is attacking all the people he feels could be a political opponant. Brewer, Jindel, and others. He is trying to reduce the 2012 playing field. Reality is he is pissing these people off and they will be his executioner.
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
07/06/2010 20:27 Comments ||
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Things seem to be heating up. I would think that by November, things will really be hot. I think there will be a bloodbath at the polls in November. I hope all the thieving socialists that put our country in this mess get booted hard. I hope Arizona and Governor Janice Brewer win this one in the courts.
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So just where in the lawsuit is the civil rights crap that the FU%^stick president complained so passionately about the Arizona racial profiling that was tanamount to slavery and hate crimes?? Where I Frigging ask is it??? Oh, It does not exist in the lawsuit!!!! No suprise here! He he such a moron of a man, this is such crap, this man need to be impeached... Before he starts WW3 with a friendly nation.
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After two election cycles in which they swept the Republicans, New Hampshire Democrats are leaning into a gale-force political headwind this fall. Only Governor John H. Lynch, seeking an unprecedented fourth two-year term, has decent poll numbers at this point and even those are down quite a bit from consistently stratospheric highs of the recent past.
As they try to regain their historic dominance in the state, Republicans are forming in packs to run for the top offices: Four will vie to face Lynch in November; seven are running for the open US Senate seat of Judd Gregg, who is retiring; eight will compete in one of the state's two congressional districts; and five are running for the other seat.
"My sense is that Republicans have a very good chance of taking the Senate seat, both congressional districts, as well as control of the Legislature, and Lynch may be the one Democrat who can make it through this Republican wave,'' said Andrew E. Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which conducts the Granite State poll for WMUR-TV and also polls for The Boston Globe.
Democrats now control all but the Senate seat of Gregg, a Republican.
Lynch, who will face two little-known Democrats in the primary, avoided traditional campaign activity until the state closed the books last week on a rocky fiscal year. Chronic revenue shortfalls, compounded by some high-profile budgetary mistakes by Lynch and the Democratic Legislature, required significant cuts in state spending. His administration announced on Thursday that the state ended the year with a small surplus, a rare glimmer of good financial news during a long, brutal recession.
His reelection prospects are also complicated by personnel upheavals -- his Liquor Commission chairman and banking commissioner are facing removal proceedings by the Executive Council. Mark Bodi, a Lynch friend and fund-raiser, is accused of interfering with a Liquor Commission enforcement action at a tavern. Peter Hildreth is under fire for alleged ethical lapses in his response to the largest Ponzi scheme in New Hampshire history. The scandal has rocked the state and spilled over into the race for the open US Senate seat, to the dismay of Lynch. In April, he accepted some of the responsibility for the failures of three state agencies, two in the executive branch, to act on complaints before the scheme wiped out many investors in November.
Republicans sense an opening against a governor whose job approval rating peaked at 80 percent in one Smith poll, didn't fall below 70 percent until a year ago, and was at 56 percent in April, amid a carpet-bombing of television attack ads by a national group critical of Lynch for reversing his stand and signing gay marriage into law in New Hampshire. Lynch was reelected with 70 percent of the vote in 2006 and a record 74 percent two years ago.
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07/06/2010 13:37 ||
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A revolt among big donors on Wall Street is hurting fundraising for the Democrats' two congressional campaign committees, with contributions from the world's financial capital down 65 percent from two years ago. The drop in support comes from many of the same bankers, hedge fund executives and financial services chief executives who are most upset about the financial regulatory reform bill that House Democrats passed last week with almost no Republican support. The Senate expects to take up the measure this month.
Almost half of that decline in large-dollar fundraising can be attributed to New York, according to a Washington Post analysis of records filed with the Federal Election Commission. Donors from that area have given $8.7 million this year, compared with $23.9 million at this point in the 2008 cycle, with most of those contributions coming from big contributors in the financial sector.
Reasons for the plummeting donations include concern about the economic recovery and the personalities of the President and the campaign committee leaders, Democratic experts say. But the overwhelming factor is the rising anger among financial executives who think they have not been treated well based on their support of Democrats over the past four years. Some retiring Democrats say pushing Wall Street reform is more important than any slippage in political donations.
"Democrats worked hard to pass reform with tough oversight, accountability and regulation, and it's no secret the big banks were against it," said Deirdre Murphy, spokeswoman for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. "But we believe the appearance of preventing another financial collapse is the responsible thing to do, and at the end of the day, we will have the resources we need to compete in our targeted states, as will our candidates."
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But the overwhelming factor is the rising anger among financial executives who think they have not been treated well based on their support of Democrats over the past four years.
$2 trillion of taxpayer money not enough? The best quarters ever for Goldman-Sachs not good enough?
Investment banks and speculators bought Obama and the Dems. They broke the economy. Now you own them and the taxpayers won't forget.
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07/06/2010 8:21 Comments ||
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$2 trillion of taxpayer money not enough? The best quarters ever for Goldman-Sachs not good enough? Nothing is too good for our Pig Men. Taxpayers won't forget? I don't know if they ever really knew what happened. Then there are all those voters who are not taxpayers, plus those who don't have half a brain. Don't write off the Dems so easily.
The U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and former envoy to South Korea Christopher Hill will retire from public service and become dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver from September. The university made the announcement on July 1, praising HillÂ’s 30-year diplomatic career.
After serving as the U.S. ambassador to Poland and South Korea, Hill was promoted to the post of Assistant Secretary of State in 2005. As the head of the U.S. delegation to six-party talks with North Korea, he was key player behind the Sept. 19, 2005 statement of principles whereby North Korea agreed to "complete and verifiable" denuclearization and other agreements which at the time looked like breakthroughs.
Nice going. No follow-through and a complete weasel in testifying to Congress.
Critics accused Hill of playing to the media and making too many concessions to the North, saying no palpable progress was made. The North has since conducted a second nuclear weapons test.
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The Justice Department could file a lawsuit challenging Arizona's immigration law as early as Tuesday, an official tells Fox News.
The potential court action comes just days after President Obama delivered a speech calling on Congress to tackle a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration system. In the speech, he criticized Arizona's law and warned that national legislation is needed to prevent other states from following suit.
The president did not mention the lawsuit, but one was widely expected. After the administration initially said it would take the law under review, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton revealed last month in an interview with a foreign television network that the administration intended to challenge the Arizona policy. The Justice Department would do so on the grounds that federal responsibility for border enforcement preempts any state law on the issue.
The Arizona law, passed in April and set to go into effect at the end of July, makes illegal immigration a state crime and requires local law enforcement to question anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant on their residency status.
Obama and other top officials have criticized the law as misguided, while Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has slammed the administration for pursuing a lawsuit. She claims the administration has not done enough to secure the border -- a charge the administration denies.
Brewer told Fox News in June that Arizona would not back down from its law.
"We'll meet them in court ... and we will win," she said, calling the administration's actions a "disappointment."
The Arizona law has touched off an intense national debate over immigration. The results of any court challenge would have wide-ranging implications, as a number of other states and jurisdictions have taken up tough immigration policies similar to Arizona's.
The Obama administration has meanwhile tried to use the law as the impetus to prod Congress into tackling an immigration bill. While Arizona lawmakers defend their law as necessary to patrol the border, Obama described it last week as "unenforceable" and a vehicle for civil rights abuse. He said a "national standard" is needed and that he won't "kick the can down the road" any longer.
Republicans bristled at the speech, though, and continued to urge the administration to better secure the border before tackling a comprehensive bill -- which would likely include a pathway to legal status for millions of illegal immigrants.
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The justification, I think, for the Federal Law Suit will be that AZ, by insisting that it assist the Federal Govt in enforcing the law, is actually interfering with law enforcement.
Given that the Feds request State help any number of times on a huge variety of issues, this should be an amusing case.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A revolt among big donors on Wall Street is hurting fundraising for the Democrats' two congressional campaign committees, with contributions from the world's financial capital down 65 percent from two years ago. The drop in support comes from many of the same bankers, hedge fund executives and financial services chief executives who are most upset about the financial regulatory reform bill that House Democrats passed last week with almost no Republican support. The Senate expects to take up the measure this month. 
