LET'S ROLL!!!
Good morning! Short opening as everything seems to be focused on LA.
Feingold said he believed "a large troop presence has a tendency to fuel the insurgency because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that the U.S. is here to occupy the country."
"I think that it's very possible that the sectarian differences are inflamed by the fact that U.S. troops are here," he continued, adding that their long-term presence "may well be destabilizing, not stabilizing."
McVain gave a milque-toast response about not wanting to argue publically with "one of my best friends". And Tom Udall (D-NM) had this to add (also while in Iraq):
"The longer we say, as President Bush did this week, that we're going to be there until 2009, what incentive is there for the Iraqis to step forward?" said Udall, who voted against going to war and who has advocated rapid troop withdrawal for many months.
On Saturday, Udall used the term "redeploy" instead of "withdraw," explaining US forces should be moved to Kuwait and nearby nations to "get the best result for our troops and the Iraqis."
I call for his censure as well.
I went to sleep last night listening to Drudge on the radio...He and a couple of LA callers agreed that that city was "lost"...impossible for the authorities to make any effective changes in controlling illegal aliens, even if they wanted to.
Blair: Anti Americanism is madness The UK Guardian
Hardy Laura - First Lady of talk radio ABG!! Don't miss this..
Proud to be a conservative Burt Prelutsky
Democracy and Security: the Bush Doctrine as alive and well WSJ
I saw Senator Saxby Chambliss speak here last week to our county GOP. Immigration was among the questions he was asked about.
He said that the Senate seems to be leaning toward a bill that is "to the left of what I want" though I wasn't exactly clear on what it was he said he wants.
His comments on illegal immigration boiled down to this: "I don't think the Senate will be able to come together to pass a bill."
Everyone kind of sat with their mouths hung open ... nothing?
He did say he personally doesn't want to avoid the problem and see our children have to deal with it, but he offered no hope that the current Senate would be able to do anything at all one way or the other.
Can you all check to see if I am still on the ping list? I have to go a round about way to get to us and, I no longer see "you have mail" or "new posts to you" in red.
Gosh! it is good to be home!!!
I've been out of the loop and don't understand what's been going on.
Is it correct that we have illegals protesting throughout the country in various places? And how are the Republicans and Democrats coming out on the issue of immigration? Is Congress divided on this issue?