So, A Mexican government official steals property belonging to American officials and then claims diplomatic immunity.

Whether he was up to no good or simply desperate to play BrickBreaker, a Mexican press attaché was caught on camera by Secret Service pocketing several White House Blackberries during a recent meeting in New Orleans, FOX News has learned.

Sources with knowledge of the incident said the official, Rafael Quintero Curiel, served as the lead press advance person for the Mexican Delegation and was responsible for handling logistics and guiding the Mexican media around at the conference. He took six or seven of the hand held devices from a table outside a special room in the hotel where the Mexican delegation was meeting wit President Bush earlier this week.

Everyone entering the room was required to leave his or her cell phone, Blackberry and other such devices on the table, a common practice when high-level meetings are held. American officials discovered their missing belongings when they were leaving the session.

It didn’t take long before Secret Service officials reviewed videotape taken by a surveillance camera and found footage showing Quintero Curiel absconding with the Blackberries.

Nice.

I know President Bush has done some great things for America during his presidential tenure. I am certain history is going to be a lot nicer to him than the present is being. We have seen President Bush capitulate on a number of things important to republicans, even while acting courageously (in the political sense) on things like Judicial appointments, Bolton appointment, and the war on terror.

I never thought President Bush would capitulate to his 2000 election rival.

President Bush is poised to change course and announce as early as this week that he wants Congress to pass a bill to combat global warming, and will lay out principles for what that should include.

I understand the reasoning which dictates passage of some sort of Global Warming legislationto stave off more stringent legislation after the elections. Democrats are likely to strengthen their control in both houses this cycle and the resultant muddle on all of the controversial topics is going to be fierce.  However, I don’t believe the ploy will work. The fierce debate which is going to take place to define the contents of such legislation puts the White House in a bad situation. For the first time, President Bush is going to recognize the need for some sort of initiative and then have his staff and supporters in congress work to limit the scope and impact of the initiative. It is oxymoronic. You cannot play into the global warming game by sticking your toe into the water.

It is one thing to propose legislation to strengthen the clean air act or one of the myriad existing environmental initiaitives. But what the White House just did is lend credence to the wild global warming is doom hand-wringing party engaged in by the left.

President Bush seems to be working hard to enhance the potential of having a positive legacy. He is working hard to not be seen as a lame duck president. Usually, this means working hard for the policies of your own party - not pandering to the drivel of the leftist nutters.

The timing of this is insidious. There are a couple of things to note:

1) The release of Hillary Clinton’s schedules is being coordinated with “representatives of Hillary Clinton”

2) The Clinton rep thought the National Archives was being to stringent on which papers to release - meaning they wanted more schedules released.

3) The Clinton rep has asked a judge NOT to release phone records for another year or two.  the National Archives certainly would not do this as they have no reason to withhold the phone records.

The aim of getting these papers released is to float schedules that show how much “experience” Hillary has without having the associated phone records, which could show a great deal more about Hillary than she wants anyone to see before an election.

None of this matter. From the Democratic Party standpoint, Hillary is the “establishment” candidate running against a “change” candidate. Her support is going to continue to wane, as her contributions already have.