The nomination of Kansas native Julie Myers to head the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency continues to twist in the wind. Even conservative voices such as the National Review and columnist Michelle Malkin have blasted the Bush administration for poor judgment in picking Myers, a 36-year-old lawyer whose resume doesn’t approach the vast experience needed to be the nation’s immigration czar. Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., nevertheless gave Myers — niece of former Kansan Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — a warm and folksy introduction at her recent confirmation hearing. He noted that "Kansas has been the home of many great public servants, especially in law enforcement," and went on: "Who can forget the legends of Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson? Their efforts helped clean up my hometown of Dodge City. I knew Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and Julie could ride shotgun with them anytime."
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We had someone unqualified in charge of FEMA and look what happened. Now we want to place someone without qualifications in charge of immigration? Guess this administration just does not learn.
Where’s Ian, shouldn’t he be here for immigrant bashing?
I think this demonstrates the Bush administration isn’t serious about illegal immigrants.
It is our current administations goal to drop our wages to the level of Mexico’s mean wage. That way immigration will be a non-issue. They won’t want to come here anymore.
Roberts to being a Dodge Citian is like Galahad to being intelligent. Gimme a break.
Jimmy,”Roberts to being a Dodge Citian is like Galahad to being intelligent.”Well, Jimmy, Guess what? Turns out Roberts is from Dodge City, ergo, Galahad must be intelligent, which leaves you…?
Anon & xxx are right about the administration’s gutless approach to enforcing our borders.
Conservatives are becoming as fed up with this administration as liberals. Sometimes the reasons are the same.
JM, “sarcasm,” it’s used as a literary tool. Apparently you’re not familiar. Public education must be a horrible burden.
My point was that Pat Roberts has just had an apartment and POBox in Dodge City for a million years….yet he plays this, “I’m just a little ‘ol Western Kansas boy.” He’s more a Virginian than a Kansan. Get it now, smart boy?
Now come on Jimmy, Mr. Roberts may come home just like Mr. Dole went back to Russell after he retired from the U.S. Senate.
Jimmy,Obviously, sarcasm met with sarcasm is something that is also used as a literary tool:-)) Having a little fun in a blog is something I do quite regularly.”Public education must be a horrible burden.” Excuse me? Burden on whom? The ones being educated?Pat Roberts is a living (if you can call it that) joke. He is shuffeling sarcasm at its finest. Get it now, yourself, smartboy?
Well, at least this smartboy knows how to spell “shuffling.” Unlike, well, you. Or was that just your brilliant sarcasm again? Who exactly do you think you’re fooling when you write that? chortle
What people aren’t getting is that soon most of our jobs that pay a living wage will be in Mexico.
It won’t be long before we’re crossing the borders to get into Mexico, instead of them getting into the US.
If Pat Roberts is such a joke, why do kansans keep putting this virginian back in politics?
I consider him more of a poster child for the problems in this administration. The fact that he believes that family should be the main requirement on a job resume, just proves my point.
Jimmy,Keep on chortleing.chorteling.choltling…whatever. Enjoy your superior attitude and inferior sense of humor. Your posts are the ones I get the most laughter out of. Sarcasm? You have no idea! Fun, in your mind, is probably watching buses burn.There seems to be a lack of people here capable of laughing at themselves. I am not one of them. How can you laugh at someone else if you can’t laugh at yourself, Jimmy-boy? Answer: You can’t. Go buy yourself a set of clown shoes, a big rubber nose, and make some kids laugh. Look like a fool and enjoy yourself. As it is, you just look like a fool.
Not only is her uncle General Myers, but her former boss is Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff, and she just married Chertoff’s current chief of staff.
Sounds fishy to me…
Ignoring Jimmy’s gratutious insult (”citian” . . . I thought he was talking about a Dodge car model–”the all new Citian from Dodge, 253 horsepower, Hemi engine . . .”)
Pat Roberts is the same Bush-kisser who promised to investigate intelligence failures that led to WMD pronouncement prior to the Bush Imperium in Babylon. He didn’t want to “politicize” the issue before the election of 2004.
Well, sure, no reason to tell the voters know whether the President was lying about going to war or anything. But at least he promised to head an investigation after the election.
So where’s the investigation? Uh, gee, he said the Senate Intelligence Committee (which he heads) “has other priorities.”
Hey, that’s the same reason Dick Cheney gave for not going to Vietnam.
I think I’ll start using that one too.
Why don’t I support Bush? Other priorities.
Why don’t I drive the speed limit? Other priorities.
Why don’t I pay taxes? Other priorities.
Yup, that works almost as well as Reagan’s “I forgot.” “I forgot if I started a covert war in Nicaragua.”
BTW, JimBob. Name one good thing Bush has done. (Besides tax cuts). And none of that, “well, at least he’s better than the Democrats” hypothetical bullshit.
C’mon, if Bush is really so good, tell us why, IF you can . . .
So you can say I cut and pasted again? I’ll start answering to your demands when Hillary’s president.
Jimmy,Leave it to you to have a woman do your talking for you. Yep…you’re a real man…chortle.
“… I knew Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, and Julie could ride shotgun with them anytime.”
Is this some form of old-time Republican humor? Are we supposed to be chuckling at this? If this is the punchline, what’s the joke?
Of course this latest installment in the Bush brigade of banana brains isn’t qualified. Are there any that are? What totally baffles me is why even the few intelligent members of Congress just keep nodding their heads to whatever Georgie says. Have the Neocons added something to the water in D.C.? I don’t recall reading about that in the PNAC…
Wow! It just dawned on me what a great question this is to ask reactionaries.
What has Bush done right?
Simple, elegant, classic.
Yet they can’t answer it because Rush and Sean Inanity and Bill O’Lielly never talk about that. They always bloviate in outrage about the “Bush haters.”
So the Jimmy’s of the world are left totally speechless.
Being conservative . . . it must suck to be you.
Just dawned on you? You’ve been asking that stupid question for months. Memory loss like that is a good sign of a drughead.
Puny, it isn’t nice to post over RD’s name.