Posted on 06/05/2007 7:58:47 PM PDT by Maelstorm
Senate Years of Service: 1994-2003
Party: Republican
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THOMPSON, Fred Dalton, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Sheffield, Ala., on August 19, 1942; attended the public schools in Lawrenceburg, Tenn.; graduated from Memphis State University 1964; received J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University 1967; admitted to the Tennessee bar in 1967 and commenced the practice of law; assistant U.S. attorney 1969-1972; minority counsel, Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (“Watergate Committee”) 1973-1974; special counsel to Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander 1980; special counsel, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1980-1981; special counsel, Senate Intelligence Committee 1982; member, Tennessee Appellate Court Nominating Commission 1985-1987; actor; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in the November 8, 1994, special election to fill the unexpired portion of the term ending January 3, 1997, left vacant by the resignation of Albert Gore, Jr.; took the oath of office on December 2, 1994; reelected in 1996 for the term ending January 3, 2003; not a candidate for reelection in 2002; chair, Committee on Governmental Affairs (One Hundred Fifth and One Hundred Sixth Congresses; One Hundred Seventh Congress [January 20, 2001-June 6, 2001]); resumed acting career.
Bibliography
Thompson, Fred D. At That Point in Time: The Inside Story of the Senate Watergate Committee. New York: Quadrangle/New York Times Book Co., 1975.
Bumpity bumpity bump.
Done!
OK Fred, state you are a candidate! Why are you waiting? You say the 4th if July at the earliest. Yes, you are against the illegal amnesty...but you have the Bush team jumping on your bandwagon. Is that why the delay? You want to let the Senate abomination run its course so you don’t have to come out against it? Sounds like 4 more years of Bush because you’ll owe him favors for the assist. Guess you are the GOP candidate.
Unclog your troll ears and eyes and you will find out he has come out against it over and over again.
Yes he is against it and DOES NOTHING. With Hannity backing him and you, he is the obvious GOP choice, thus a knee jerk puppet of Bush. TANCREDO has shown what it is to fight; right you party stoge.
Unless I am very very mistaken he has already come out against the amnesty bill.
I have also read a few articles about the bush camp moving over to Fred. Most said that Bush was very unhappy with it and the people were leaving because they were tired of Bush. (rumors so take with a large grain of salt)
Why he is waiting for the 4th is a good question.
PS specifically what is “Fred’s” plan to get rid of illegal aliens?
He is FOR homeland Security and the Patriot act. Beware of a RINO in Conservative clothing
I’ll bet your monitor is all covered with spit right now.
Please see my reply to Prokopton, not the insult that he initiated trades on, but the facts and specificity I requested. Yiou are astute in recognizing the political “rumors” can be a subtrafuge.
For example, one of the Bush “defectors” to “Fred” is his nephew, the Hispanic one who addressed the GOP convention in English and Spanish (he is half Columbian), The nephew switched from being a teacher, went to law school and is being groomed for the Presidency - another reason for Bush to want to sell out the US rule of law out and pander to Hispanics and corporate contributors.
ROTFLMAO I can say “PS specifically” with out spraying the monitor.
Ping
Leave ‘em here, I guess.
WALLACE: Well, let me put up on the screen something that you said last year about illegals, and let’s take a look at it. “You’re going to have to, in some way, work out a deal where they can have some aspirations of citizenship but not make it so easy that it’s unfair to the people waiting in line and abiding by the law.”
Now, you said, “Look, it’s just not realistic that we’re going to round up 12 million people and ship them all out of the country.”
THOMPSON: Well, that’s true, as a general statement. We woke up one day after years of neglect and apparently discovered that we have somewhere between 12 million and 20 million illegal aliens in this country. So it became an impossible situation to deal with.
I mean, there’s really no good solution. So what do you do? You have to start over. Well, I’m concerned about the next 12 million or 20 million. So that’s why enforcement, and enforcement at the border, has to be primary.
If we cannot round the illegals up, how about attrition through enforcement. No welfare, food stamps, no jobs or permits. They will go home. “Fred” just rephrased Bush’s BS and said lets look at the next 4 years... seems to be his statement on IRAQ, unnamed entitlements etc. and NO SPECIFICITY on anything. Perhaps he will wait till July 6, Bush’s Birthday to announce so it is real clear to the knee jerks.
I believe his exact words were ‘deport’..
What do you want him to do? Storm Washington? Stage a coup?
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