I don't care if it is an election ploy. These Democratic election ploys may just end up doing more than the Republican Congress is doing. If they are going to keep doing these "election ploys", we'd be better off electing them instead of the Republicans in Congress who keep claiming they can't do anything about it. IIRC, Jim Sensenbrenner tried to get a bill on illegal immigration considered, and the house leadership said no. NO! And they smear Tancredo more than Democrats do.
"And they smear Tancredo more than Democrats do."
Hell, look at the idiots here who continually show up to tancredo threads just to smear him.....
It IS just a Dem election ploy and they aren't serious. However, the GOP and Bush have left themselves so vulnerable because of their obvious avoidance of the entire issue, that it will work. Even an empty promise will swing a crucial percentage of voters and the GOP will pay in 2006 IMHO.