[af_vet_rr]

Well now, that's the one thing you won't hear out of Congress or the White House. I suppose the proper tribute has been paid.

Why do you think Bush and Congress have taken the track they have, up until they were forced to do something (as pitiful as it is)?

Those businesses have money, and want a non-secure border, and Bush and Congress were content to give it to them.

On the opposite side, we have votes, and the GOP is/was splitting with the rank and file over this issue - the GOP leadership wants to kiss up to potential Hispanic voters while Conservatives were tired of the state of the border. The problem for the GOP leadership, this is an election year, and even if Bush isn't running, he's under a lot of pressure to help out Republican politicians, and so they start trying to compromise with us.

It's like the National Guard troops on the border - they'll be there until after the election is over.

[Wolfie]

The Republicans and Dems are betting they can bird-dog us with minor social issues (I don't want my kid reading that book in school!), while the grand plan of totally screwing over the American middle class falls into place. I'm betting they're right.