San Bernadino Sun: Bush Declines to Meet with Border Officials

[DeepModem Mom]

Bush declines to meet with border officials
Bush snubs border sheriffs President refuses to meet coalition as lawmakers prepare hearings
Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer

President Bush has refused to meet with border law enforcement officials from Texas for a second time. His response to their request came in the form of a letter Monday, angering both lawmakers and sheriffs.

In fact, some Republican members of Congress, upset by what they call the administration's seeming lack of concern for border security, are preparing to hold investigative hearings in San Diego and Laredo, Texas, early next month.

Members of the House subcommittee on international terrorism and nonproliferation hope to expose serious security flaws that could potentially lead to terrorist attacks in the country, said Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, who is a member of the panel and has pushed for the hearings....

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Poe requested the meeting for members of the Southwestern Sheriffs' Border Coalition -- a group that includes all 26 border county sheriffs from California, New Mexico, Arizona and Texas. The sheriffs wanted to speak to the president about the increasing dangers in their communities and along the border....

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In May, all of the Republican House members from Texas traveled to Washington, D.C., to meet the president regarding border security. Bush did not meet with them, however, and former White House spokesman Scott McClellan was sent in his stead....

http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_3943005

[nolies32fouettes]

1. more bush security incompetence. It's more than Bush...

it's the enabling republicans too.

http://www.progressiveu.org/160000-bush-tough-on-security-part-ive-lost-count

http://www.progressiveu.org/160000-the-sale-of-our-key-ports-everything-it-says-about-bush-administration-ethics

http://www.progressiveu.org/160000-george-w-bush-tough-on-security

[fooj]

2. He doesn't give a shit about border security...

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Unless, I guess, there's a macho photo op in the desert involved. nt

[madrchsod]

4. his handlers told him they received messages from

the corporations to back off this border shit. bush does what he is told

[la la]

5. he hasn't been able to

find those perspiration guards to wear under his shirt -

Can't have those sweaty armpits showing up on the front page again.

[rodeodance]

6. sending in Scott M to stand in for Bush would be a blow to egos

.....

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Big time! nt

[SpiralHawk]

8. All show. Nothing is real with Commander AWOL

Bush just likes to pretend he is doing something.

As long as the republicon cronies are making dirty money, he is happy.

[UTUSN]

9. K&R #2 dedicated to the Minutemen Shrub called "vigilantes" n/t

[tanyev]

10. Is Cindy camping down at the border now? We know he's skeered of her.

[DeepModem Mom]

11. Could be! nt