The Call

Cross posted from The Violence Worker

Last night, I got a phone call. It was a young woman from the Republican National Committee and she was seeking a contribution to the party. In years past, I donated somewhat regularly to the the RNC, but not this time.I admit, I was a bit gruff with the poor girl at first. I told her in no uncertain terms that I was not going to give the RNC another damn dime until they quit agreeing with Ted Kennedy on immigration. I told her she needs to tell the folks up the chain that there are a lot of people upset about this immigration issue.

I then apologized to her. I told her I wasn’t angry at her, but at the party and people like McCain and others that thought this immigration bill was something they could ram down our throats. I told her that not only did I write the President concerning my opposition, I also called the White House to tell them I was opposed to their shamnesty bill. I also said it wasn’t worth contacting my senators. Patty Murray can’t understand polysyllabic words and Maria Cantwell was too much of a Democrat hack to care.

I asked her if she was getting a lot of flak over this and she admitted the immigration bill was “making things difficult”.

She said she understood, but she was a dedicated Republican. She then said that I should consider giving to the party to help elect Republicans and I told her no. It’s not that I want the other side to win, but from now on, my money was going to go to individual candidates. I then thanked her, wished her well and hung up.

The RNC has to know by now that this immigration bill has simply made their Conservative base (including me) quite angry. If they are so arrogant as to think that we will support them in some sort of sycophantic allegiance, I’m thinking their calls to us might be their wakeup call.

We need to keep up the pressure and not let them slip this one by us.

VW

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Another border agent headed to prison

Cross posted from   Right Truth

Another border agent due to start prison term — Judge, prosecutor the same as in Ramos-Compean case, WND:

Another former U.S. Border Patrol agent is due to start a prison term on Monday – this man sentenced for a typographical error that he reported to authorities himself so that the situation could be corrected, according to a new report from Friends of the Border Patrol.And the case bears similarities to the recent case involving two other Border Patrol agents – Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos – [snip]

For example, the prosecutor who handled both cases against Ramos and Compean and Noe Aleman was U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, and the judge was Kathleen Cardone.

Go read it and weap. It’s one injustice after another.

Also see: New life for immigration bill?, Texas Fred

Bush’s scheduled lunch on Tuesday with GOP senators is part of a campaign by the White House and allies in both parties to placate or outmaneuver conservative Republicans who blocked the broad immigration measure this week.They said Friday they would try again to reach accord on the number of amendments the dissidents could offer.Opponents of the bill promised to continue fighting all such efforts.

First luncheon visit in five years

Others:
Another border agent due to start prison term, My Country – My View
The Most Dangerous Bills Before Congress: Amnesty (isn’t dead) and Hate Speech, Faultline USA
Recap of cloture vote for S.1348 last night, Bear Creek Ledger
We Did It!, GA Crime Watch
TEDDY AT THE BAT The Outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Cloture nine that day……., stickNstein
American Patriots… We Have Held the Line, The People’s Patriot
Maggie’s Notebook, Open Trackbacks
123beta, College Baseball World Series Open Trackback Weekend

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