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Tancredo let his name be used. If he were merely concerned that constituents know about this meeting, he could have notified them by letter. How many of his constituents read the Washington Times?

Tancredo does a good job of representing his constituents' voice in Congress. However, you must admit that he gets a lot of face time on the networks talking about this issue. That's all well and good, but it still doesn't negate that he broke the confidence of the retreat.

Karl Rove has jerked Tancredo around for a couple of years, when he should have listened to him. Tancredo owes him nothing. The Bush Amnesty is a colossal blunder, both as politics and policy, and all of the voices now trying to silence the tide that has swelled against it are the same voices who would see, hear, and speak no evil throughout the Predsident's first term.

I also criticize the others who broke confidence. In my opinion, they are even worse in that they did so anonymously.

Then you would perpetuate the problem rather than solve it, which is the insular failure of this White House to recognize how much they were putting the rest of the GOP agenda at risk by pushing ideas that anger significant portions of the Republican coalition.

You want lower taxes?
You want conservative judges?
You want to win the War on Terror?
You want to rebuild America's military and intelligence capabilities?
You want to protect the institution of marriage?

Well, all of that is at risk because of people who pretend, and insist that others pretend, that President Bush doesn't have a major problem.

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Karl Rove has jerked Tancredo around for a couple of years, when he should have listened to him. Tancredo owes him nothing. The Bush Amnesty is a colossal blunder, both as politics and policy, and all of the voices now trying to silence the tide that has swelled against it are the same voices who would see, hear, and speak no evil throughout the Predsident's first term.

It was a PROPOSAL and is not policy. It is already obvious that whatever passes the Congress won't bear much of a resemblance to it.

This is not the first time that Tancredo has pulled one of these breeches of confidence, and it probably won't be the last.

After all, he has found THE issue on which he can get air time on the news networks. I imagine that after this little story, he will get another round of interviews and maybe a spot on Larry King.

Meanwhile, no one is addressing TANCREDO's guest worker program. Everyone thinks that Tancredo will institute massive deportation, as far as I can tell.

Why should Tancredo NOT expect to be jerked around? He has repeatedly come out opposing the President on immigration, first by griping that he wasn't doing anything, and then opposing the President's idea of a solution. He has done this at the very time that the President is trying to increase Hispanic support in the party, and he has made no effort to sound conciliatory.

Piffle. If Karl Rove went to the papers quoting things Tancredo had said in a closed meeting, you would be livid. Just because it is Tancredo and he happens to support your point of view you think it is A-ok.

Constituents of Tancredo should ask themselves whether he is doing his best for the people of his district, or whether he is using a single issue to give himself a higher profile.