EDINBURG, Texas — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a plan to build fencing along parts of the United States-Mexico border is a “terrible idea” that overlooks local communities.

Pelosi made the comments during her trip to the Rio Grande Valley for the sixth annual Hispanic Engineering, Science & Technology Week conference hosted by the University of Texas-Pan American.

“I have been against the fence, I thought it’s a bad idea even when it was just a matter of discussion,” said Pelosi, D-California. “These are communities where you have a border going through them, they are not communities where you have a fence splitting them.”

The Department of Homeland Security this week announced plans to erect about 370 miles of fencing and 200 miles of vehicle barriers along the U.S. border by the end of 2008.

Also during her Thursday trip, Pelosi touted legislation that would make it easier for some illegal immigrants to receive higher education benefits.

The legislation, known as the DREAM Act, would eliminate a federal provision that discourages states from providing illegal immigrants with in-state tuition rates. It would also allow permanent residency for illegal immigrants who entered the country as children and have been admitted to an institution of higher education.

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I am of the strong belief that we WON on the Amnesty Bill recently but that’s just about as far as this is going to go…

Our wetback loving POS for a President doesn’t want a fence built, it will keep his amigos out, that useless waste of flesh Pelosi doesn’t want a fence because she a goofy assed libber bitch that hasn’t got a brain to call her own and the congress isn’t going to push it either simply because they are ALL dumber than a box of rocks…

All of them, each and every politico in this nation is doing their dead level best to give our country away as fast as they possibly can, what they can’t waste in Iraq, and that’s something like $40M a day I hear, what they can’t blow there they blow on taking care of illegal asswipes by giving them educations, health care, housing and anything else that can be thought of and we are paying for it, US, YOU and ME, We, the People, the American taxpayer, they are bleeding us dry and sticking it to us…

Folks, we have been lied to by George W. Bush, and we are being governed by the biggest bunch of lying, dumb-assed politicians in American history, we are in a dire position in this nation and if we don’t do some serious house cleaning in the next election, we might as well hang it up people, because it’s damn near over…

570 miles of fencing and barriers?? For a 1,951 mile long border??

That isn’t just a LIE, it’s a freaking insult to the intelligence of the American conservative, our border is wide open and this nation is perilously close to falling, and the cretins in D.C., led by the sorriest and dumbest president in U.S. history, are squarely responsible for the coming consequences…

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will not run for president in 2008 after determining he could not legally explore a bid and remain as head of his tax-exempt political organization, a spokesman said Saturday.

“Newt is not running,” spokesman Rick Tyler said. “It is legally impermissible for him to continue on as chairman of American Solutions (for Winning the Future) and to explore a campaign for president.”

Gingrich decided “to continue on raising the challenges America faces and finding solutions to those challenges” as the group’s chairman, Tyler said, “rather than pursuing the presidency.”

Only on Friday, Gingrich said he had given himself a deadline of Oct. 21 to raise $30 million for a possible White House and that the task was difficult, through not impossible.

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I’m pretty sure this has nothing to do with the fact that many conservative and some Repub sites were making fun of Mr. Newt for his ridiculous statement when he said if people would donate $30 million he’d think about running for POTUS, THINK about it for crying out loud…

Hell, for $30 million I’ll think about running for POTUS too, I’ll tell ya what, for $30 million I’ll even think about shutting down this blog as well, that’s bound to make a few folks on both sides of the aisle happy, right?? I mean, for $30 million thinking about it is the least I can do…

So, if you want me to think about running for POTUS and if you want me to think about shutting down TexasFred’s, let me know and I’ll open a PayPal account and once the $30 million is in the bank, I promise, I’ll think about it, a lot, no, really, I will…

And in MY opinion, this kind of cavalier attitude from Newt is why he won’t ever be POTUS, and that is a good thing in my opinion, I think…

Wait, there’s no money in the account yet, I can’t think about it…

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. Hours later, the Afghan president offered to meet personally with the Taliban leader for peace talks and give the militants a position in government.

Strengthening a call for negotiations he has made with increasing frequency the last several weeks, President Hamid Karzai said he was willing to meet with Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister and factional warlord leader.

“If I find their address, there is no need for them to come to me, I’ll personally go there and get in touch with them,” Karzai said. “Esteemed Mullah, sir, and esteemed Hekmatyar, sir, why are you destroying the country?”

Karzai said he has contacts with Taliban militants through tribal elders but that there are no direct and open government communication channels with the fighters.

“If a group of Taliban or a number of Taliban come to me and say, ‘President, we want a department in this or in that ministry or we want a position as deputy minister … and we don’t want to fight anymore… If there will be a demand and a request like that to me, I will accept it because I want conflicts and fighting to end in Afghanistan,” Karzai said.

“I wish there would be a demand as easy as this. I wish that they would want a position in the government. I will give them a position,” he said.

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What a strange world we live in, the French get a new president and suddenly grow a set of balls and the Afghans become the surrender monkeys…

Unless Karzai is being sarcastic and his statement is just a facetious line about what he would give the Taliban, that’s how I see it, Karzai has become a surrender monkey…

I am of the belief that you don’t negotiate from a position of weakness, you kick the living crap out of your enemy and force them to sue for peace, you don’t sit there and blubber like some teen forum drama queen about how you wish they’d come to you and want to be your friend and how you’d just give the world if they’d invite you into their club…

We had the Taliban all but destroyed in Afghanistan, in a war that most of the free world, and a HUGE majority of the American people saw as a right and justified action against the right enemy, in the right place at the right time, then Bush took the focus off of Afghanistan as we traipsed off to Iraq so he could satisfy his vendetta with Saddam, and as soon as he did, the Taliban began to rebuild and regroup, and you see where we are now??

We’re supporting a former ‘war lord’ that doesn’t have the strength to hold his own nation together and is willing to acquiesce to his enemies and negotiate from a position of weakness, wonderful state of affairs GW, simply wonderful…

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