Thread: FIRE Mary Peters!!!

Shouldn't her boss....you know, Jorge What's-His-Llama....have had a talk with her about this by now?

His last EO allows department heads to ignore Congress and the People. It was supposed to be about earmarks, but methinks not. Wouldn't a better way to deal with earmarks be to veto bills containing 11,000 of them?

camilleinchicago wrote:

• Better yet, put her in a 1985 Yugo on an Interstate filled with Mexican driven semi-trailers during rush hour. Make sure all the semi-trailers are running behind schedule.

you bad!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by camilleinchicago

Better yet, put her in a 1985 Yugo on an Interstate filled with Mexican driven semi-trailers during rush hour. Make sure all the semi-trailers are running behind schedule.

and on retreads!! according to Hoffa most Mexican trucks do and they cause alot of accidents!!

IF..the Teamsters call for a Strike..it will be nationwide..
The Truckers will shut down
Bush/Mary Peters can eat dirt..If Mexican trucks cross the border to break a strike....there will be a war..
This could be the start of the "tea party"

Transportation chief needs to hit the road

Feb. 9, 2008 12:00 AM

Mary Peters is still the U.S. Secretary of Transportation although she has broken a law preventing our roads from being overrun by unsafe trucks from Mexico.

Peters has defied Congress, which passed a law last year saying no money can be spent to establish a "pilot project" to give trucks from Mexico total access to our highways. Peters started the pilot project in September and has refused to stop the program.

Her unwillingness to follow the law is endangering our highway safety and weakening our national security. And if Peters, former director of the Arizona Department of Transportation, makes good on her past intentions to run for governor of Arizona, the state's border will become even more porous than it has been in the past.

Peters' record after 16 months of leading the Transportation Department is shameful.

It's time for her to go.

This week, the Teamsters Union launched a Web site, www.FireMaryPeters.com, to expose the many reasons the secretary should be told to hit the road and to build support for ousting this lawbreaker.

Congress recognized a decade ago that Mexican trucking safety standards are far below those in the U.S. The Mexican government and businesses have since failed to raise safety standards.

As a result, problems have persisted: Mexico-based drivers can be forced to remain on the road for many, many hours, although fatigue is a major cause of highway accidents; the safety-inspection system is rickety; and there are loopholes for drug- and alcohol-testing wide enough to drive a truck through.

In addition, there are security lapses and long wait times at the U.S.-Mexican border as a result of staff shortages, poor training of border personnel, outdated facilities, an overwhelming workload and a lack of standard tamperproof documents. There is no way to adequately check the background of drivers entering our country.

Without establishing adequate safety procedures, Peters and the Bush administration allowed the first Mexican trucks to roll into the U.S. during the first weekend in September. The following Monday, 34 people were killed and 150 injured in a crash in northern Mexico involving a dynamite-laded truck. While this truck was not part of the cross-border program, the awful loss of life illustrates the safety problems that the Mexican government has not reined in. The following day, the Senate voted overwhelmingly to shut down the cross-border trucking pilot program.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said that the purpose of the bill he sponsored was "to stop the Bush administration's pilot program that now allows Mexican trucks to haul freight throughout the United States." Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said the bill would "prevent the pilot (program) from going forward." The Senate passed the bill with bipartisan support and a 75-23 margin.

Secretary Peters needs to understand that when our elected representatives pass laws, they apply to her as much as they do to you, me and everyone else. It's time we hit the brakes on Secretary Peters' bureaucratic mismanagement.

The Teamsters do not intend to let Peters get away with breaking the law. On Tuesday, their lawyers will be in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to prove that the pilot program is illegal and that it must be stopped immediately. And the Teamsters intend to see that Peters is fired for breaking the law.



The writer is general president of the 1.4 million member International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

www.azcentral.com

I would love to see her get fired and hopefully the idea of a governorship would be "gone with the wind"!!

Geez seems no one thinks they have to obey the law in this country any longer!!

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

Originally Posted by azwreath

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Originally Posted by azwreath

Shouldn't her boss....you know, Jorge What's-His-Llama....have had a talk with her about this by now?

I think she did "Wreath" he told her to ignore congress and get the program started!!

Oh yeah.......sheesh, whatever was I thinking?

I don't know "wreath" I think you "run amuck", it happens to me to every now and then!!

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Oh.....well when you see that start to happen, please rein me in.

Running amuck takes a lot out of me.................

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

I would love to see her get fired and hopefully the idea of a governorship would be "gone with the wind"!!

Geez seems no one thinks they have to obey the law in this country any longer!!

The POTUS is performing as defacto leader of the NAU. His intent is to accumulate enough power to just roll this thing into place piece by piece. He is "boiling the frog" which doesn't even notice he's being cooked until it's too late. Mary Peter's is breaking the law by following the directions of the POTUS. We can stop this one. For the future Bush has established that agency heads may ignore the will of the People's Congress under certain circumstances.

Sec. 2. Duties of Agency Heads. (a) With respect to all appropriations laws and other legislation enacted after the date of this order, the head of each agency shall take all necessary steps to ensure that:

(i) agency decisions to commit, obligate, or expend funds for any earmark are based on the text of laws, and in particular, are not based on language in any report of a committee of Congress, joint explanatory statement of a committee of conference of the Congress, statement of managers concerning a bill in the Congress, or any other non-statutory statement or indication of views of the Congress, or a House, committee, Member, officer, or staff thereof;

(ii) agency decisions to commit, obligate, or expend funds for any earmark are based on authorized, transparent, statutory criteria and merit-based decision making, in the manner set forth in section II of OMB Memorandum M-07-10, dated February 15, 2007, to the extent consistent with applicable law; and

(iii) no oral or written communications concerning earmarks shall supersede statutory criteria, competitive awards, or merit-based decisionmaking.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080129-5.html

Bush sold this thing in the SotUA as a service to the American taxpayer to combat earmark spending. Dumbass Congresspersons clapped. The SCOTUS decided several years ago, when declaring the Line Item Veto unconstitutional, that the POTUS has two options regarding bills, he can veto or sign. However, Bush has instituted through this EO a third option and defacto line item veto by declaring that agency heads can ignore certain parts of bills they disagree with after he signs.
This needs to be challenged.