President Bush VS Governor Bush.........

We used to have a Governor Bush here in Texas who knew who he was, what Texas justice was, and demanded that Texas justice be enforced.... Now we have a President Bush residing in that huge pretty White House in Washington, surrounded by pointy toed East Coast lawyers and with a new NAFTA inspired "Green/White" phone on his desk direct from the other President's desk in Mexico city. From the Fort Worth Star Telegram:

A Texas case
The Bush administration is taking the side of a Mexican national who is on Death Row in Texas in a case that examines the president's power to set aside a state law that conflicts with an international treaty. Jose Ernesto Medellin, convicted of the gang-rape strangulations of two Houston teenagers, was condemned without getting to seek help from his native country's consulate, despite a decades-old treaty guaranteeing such visits for people arrested outside their homeland. The Texas attorney general's office will argue that the state should be allowed to proceed with Medellin's execution because he failed to show in his original trial that his case had suffered because he did not confer with the Mexican consulate. The Bush administration will argue that states should honor the 1963 Vienna Convention -- a position that is at odds with positions Bush took as Texas governor. (Medellin v. Texas)

Keep in mind here Buckaroos, the facts are not in dispute - this animal confessed to these rape/murders, received a fair trial and was convicted by a Texas jury.... at no time during the trial, or subsequent to the trial did he or his lawyers raise the question of consulate visits. Now, after all other legal avenues are exhausted --- all of a sudden, the lack of consulate advice is raised. Governor Bush would have put up with no such nonsensicals.......

It all just breaks Ole Pecozbill's heart - after 15 years of admiration for this man's integrity and consistency.