SNOW: Crushes Potter In Vice-Like Rhetorical Grip…

Mayor Tom Potter’s attack on last week’s immigration raid at the Del Monte fruit factory in St.Johns were brought up with White House Spokesman Tony Snow at a press conference yesterday:

Q Tony, thank you; two questions. Channel 6 in Portland, Oregon, featured Mayor Tom Potter of Portland as saying, “I am angered by this morning’s arrest by federal officers of approximately 150 Portland residents who were working at a local produce company.” And my question, how does the President ever expect to bring under control the illegal immigration problem when a mayor like Potter openly advocated overlooking existing federal immigration law regarding these 150 lawbreakers?

MR. SNOW: Was he not talking about an arrest, Lester?

Q Yes.

MR. SNOW: Well, then I hardly see that the mayor was in a position to circumvent the law.

Ouch. That’s the kind of slap-down you can expect when you tussle with the Feds, Tom! Now, back to matters you can actually control: How’s the late, over-budget Vision Project going? I mean, apart from being late, and over-budget? How’s it going? What about your Drug Free Zones oversight committee? Going well, is it?