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Michael Ramirez on Democrat Representative William Jefferson
Representative William Jefferson Watch: Jefferson Will Be Indicted
Fox News: Judge Freezes Congressman Jefferson’s Assets
A federal judge Thursday froze the assets of Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., who was indicted this week on charges of soliciting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes.
Among the 16 criminal counts Jefferson is facing is a criminal forfeiture count, and prosecutors have already said they will seek to recoup hundreds of thousands of dollars from Jefferson that they believe he obtained illicitly by peddling his influence to help broker business deals in Africa.
Jefferson is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in U.S. District Court.
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John McCain Watch: McCain Loses South Carolina County Chairman Over Senate Immigration Bill
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) gestures during a Republican presidential candidates debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, June 5, 2007.
McCain loses an SC county chair over immigration
Subject: RE: TIME TO CALL RADIO
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 22:15:22 -0400
From: David Nix
To: ‘Adam Temple’
CC: Mike Gibbons
Adam,
Please consider this my resignation as Aiken County chair for McCain. I am too far from him on the Amnesty Bill. I was hopeful that he could keep his nose clean this time around, but he can’t read the pulse of the American citizens.
Please pass my regrets on to Henry McMaster.
David Nix
Aiken CountyAdam Temple is McCain’s South Carolina press secretary. The e-mail was in response to a plea for McCain county chairs to call into talk radio stations and make the pitch for their candidate. Nix, evidently, is very unhappy about the “Amnesty Bill” because the guy he cc’d, Mike Gibbons, happens to be a reporter for the Aiken paper. Henry McMaster, btw, is the state AG and a big McCain supporter.
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The McCain campaign is on life support.
Mitt Romney has taken the poll lead in Iowa and New Hampshire. McCain is barely hanging onto South Carolina and badly trails in Florida.
And Fred Thompson will be entering the race within 30 days.
Put a fork in McCain – He’s Done!
But, will tonight’s collapse of the Senate Immigration bill, help McCain?
Stay tuned……
Update:
 More trouble for the McCain campiagn:
I have it from two sources that the Washington Post is set to report that Fred Thompson has snagged at least one high-profile John McCain donor: John M. Dowd, once Mr. McCain’s personal lawyer, including during the Keating Five scandal and when his wife was under legal investigation for an addiction to pain killers.
The McCain campaign confirms the news and downplays Mr. Dowd’s importance, saying he’s raised less than $10,000 for the campaign and that he broke with the campaign months ago.
Attempts to reach Mr. Dowd so far the evening have proved fruitless, though message have been left by this reporter at his various numbers.Mr. Dowd is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and heads the firm’s criminal litigation group.
According to records available through opensecrets.org, Mr. Dowd contributed $5,000 to Mr. McCain’s reelection bid in 2004.
UPDATE: I reached Mr. Dowd. He confirms the story and has the following comment:
“I wanted to help Fred, and I think he can win.”
Not a good sign when your attorney leaves and joins a rival campaign.
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Reid’s Cloture Motion Fails – Is Senate Immigration Bill DEAD?
*****Update*****A second cloture vote has failed in the Senate and Majority Leader Reid has “pulled” the bill from the Senate floor. The Senate will move onto other legislation.The Senate Immigration bill has DIED in the Senate for now.Senator Reid has stated there may be ways to amend the current bill.Senators will work on acceptable amendments and Reid bring the bill back for another cloture vote.
When will this be?
Probably NEVER.
Senate Refuses to Limit Debate on Immigration Plan
The Senate refused to limit debate on overhauling U.S. immigration law as Democrats urged President George W. Bush to rally Republicans to rescue the legislation.
The 33 votes to shut off debate were 27 short of the 60 needed by Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to bring to a conclusion debate on legislation to grant legal status to 12 million undocumented aliens. He said he would seek another vote later today.
Reid appealed to Bush to twist the arms of Republicans who voted against limiting debate, saying an inability to pass the legislation would produce headlines that the “president fails again.”
“This is the president’s bill. He has worked long and hard,” Reid said. “This bill that’s on the floor is not a Democratic bill, it is a bill that was worked on by Democrats and Republicans in cooperation with the president.”
Looks like the Senate Immigration Bill is on life support after Senate Majority Leader’s Cloture motion failed this morning. Reid has previously stated that he’d pull the bill from the floor if he doesn’t get 60 votes, saying there’s been ample time to debate and vote on this bill — and that he’s got an ambitious legislative schedule ahead.
But, what Reid is NOT saying is the Democrat leadership wants to prohibit GOP corrective amendments that the GOP base demand. So, he blames President Bush.
Damn…. Reid sounds like a broken record – blame Bush.
The bill looks dead.
Let’s hope so.
Update:
Apparently not.
There will be another cloture vote this evening.
Even after it failed this morning, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid says there will be an identical procedural vote later today on the immigration reform bill. That vote, which requires 60 for passage, would limit debate and amendments and put the bill on the path to a final vote. It failed earlier 33-63, with all the Republicans and about a third of Democrats voting against Reid.
Moments ago in a off-camera briefing, Reid said if the vote failed again he’d pull the bill from the floor indefinitely saying, “the bill’s over with. The bill’s gone.” He never said it was dead, but indicated he clearly had other priorities to put before the Senate in the coming weeks.
If the GOP fails to block this bill, there will be an uprising of the GOP base. If Senators like Trent Lott ( who spoke this morning) think the GOP voter base will sit still for this,they are sadly mistaken.
There WILL BE an angry reaction for this GOP lay down.
And CONSEQUENCES.
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Republican National Committee Fires Phone Solicitors
Miss USA Booed by Mexican Miss Universe Audience
Mark Steyn Watch: So Much News, So Little Sense
Illegal Immigration Watch: The Gang of 12
Rudy Giuliani Watch: Rudy Opposes Senate Immigration Bill
Illegal Immigration Watch: Senate Postpones Immigration Bill
Illegal Immigration Watch: Rush to Border Judgment
The Illegal Immigration Archive
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Cox & Forkum: Courting Disaster
Cox & Forkum: Courting Disaster
FOX News: Charges Against Guantanamo Bay Detainees Dismissed.
Military judges dismissed charges Monday against a Guantanamo detainee who chauffeured Usama bin Laden and another who allegedly killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan, marking a stunning setback to Washington’s attempts to try detainees in military court.In back-to-back arraignments for Canadian Omar Khadr and Salim Ahmed Hamdan, of Yemen, the U.S. military’s cases against the alleged Al Qaeda figures dissolved because, the two judges said, the government had failed to establish jurisdiction.
They were the only two of the roughly 380 prisoners at Guantanamo charged with crimes, and the rulings stand to complicate efforts by the United States to try other suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban figures in military courts.
Hamdan’s military judge, Navy Capt. Keith Allred, said the detainee is “not subject to this commission” under legislation passed by Congress and signed by President George W. Bush last year. Hamdan is accused of chauffeuring bin Laden’s and being the Al Qaeda chief’s bodyguard.
The new Military Commissions Act, written to establish military trials after the U.S. Supreme Court last year rejected the previous system, is full of problems, defense attorneys argued. …
A Pentagon spokesman said the issue was little more than semantics.
Navy Cmdr. Jeffrey Gordon told The Associated Press said the entire Guantanamo system was set up to deal with people who act as “unlawful enemy combatants,” operating outside any internationally recognized military, without uniforms, military ranks or other things that make them party to the Geneva Conventions.
“It is our belief that the concept was implicit that all the Guantanamo detainees who were designated as ‘enemy combatants’ … were in fact unlawful,” Gordon said.
Sullivan said that reclassifying detainees as “unlawful,” will require a time-consuming overhaul of the whole system. But Gregory McNeal, a law professor at Pennsylvania State University, said nothing prevents the Defense Department from reconvening hearings for detainees headed to trial and declaring them to be “unlawful” combatants.
And to think that all of the Democrat Presidential candidates and Senator McCain on the GOP side wish to close GITMO and move these terrorists to the United States.
This would be an ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.
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Giuliani Notes: Florida – Rudy Continues Double Digit Lead over Thompson, McCain and Romney
Quinnipiac University Poll: Giuliani Still Leads All Democrats
The GOP NUTS:
Rudy – 31% (38%, April 26)
McCain – 10% (15%)
Thompson – 14%
Romney – 8%
Gingrich – 7%
Rudy has slipped and McCain has collapsed in Florida.
THE QUESTION:
Will Fred Thompson’s candidacy contest the early Florida Primary?Today’s breakdown of early primary/caucus states has Romney leading Iowa and New Hampshire; McCain leading South Carolina and Rudy winning in Florida.
But, the Fred Thompson candidacy continues to cloud the race.
Stay tuned…….
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Day By Day by Chris Muir June 7, 2007