[You Dirty Rats]

Did you notice that Tanc got only 6 co-sponsers in the House for his immigration reform bill?

He's very good at banging pots and pans. Actually having an effect on legislation -- that's another story.

Tancredo doesn't have the votes to get his Bill passed. Nothing wrong with speaking out, but if he actually wants to improve on the status quo (not too difficult), then he'd be better off working with the President on passing legislation instead of posturing. Instead, he's going to find himself out of the room when the deals are cut.

[Ben Ficklin]

Nobody has enough votes to get their bill passed. Thats why there is no immigration reform.

It has been that way since '99.

[Travis McGee]

Instead, he's going to find himself out of the room when the deals are cut.

The Quisling Room is one room I hope he is never invited into.

Quisling: a synonym for traitor, someone who collaborates with the invaders of his country.

[inquest]

Nothing wrong with speaking out, but if he actually wants to improve on the status quo (not too difficult), then he'd be better off working with the President on passing legislation instead of posturing.

His "posturing" has been improving the situation, by forcing the rest of the party to introduce tougher and tougher bills. Of course, they still contain amnesty, which is why they should never be approved. But he's moving things in the right direction.

That, of course, is why so many of the quislings hate his guts. I fully encourage him to keep up the good work.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>He's very good at banging pots and pans.

That's how you get noticed in politics.

Btw. Bush wants amnesty. Tancredo wants to enforce exisitng American law.

[onyx]

Excellent post, YDR!

We all know Tancredo doesn't carry water for the administration, and it's decidedly doubtful he could carry even one state in an election!

[houeto]

Tancredo doesn't have the votes to get his Bill passed. Nothing wrong with speaking out, but if he actually wants to improve on the status quo (not too difficult), then he'd be better off working with the President on passing legislation instead of posturing. Instead, he's going to find himself out of the room when the deals are cut.

"In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot." - Mark Twain, 1904

[F16Fighter]

"He's [Tancredo] going to find himself out of the room when the deals are cut."

It's called "Principle over Power" -- an apparent foreign concept to the smoky backroom whores of the GOP.

[mthom]

The presidents best offer isnt even close to something that could warrant a compromise.

[dalereed]

"he'd be better off working with the President on passing legislation instead of posturing"

What Bush proposes is just as bad as nothing at all!

Bush is out to lunch totally, campaign finance, no child left behind, drug benefit, illegal aliens, and spending like a druken sailor.

Compasionate conservative is just another way of saying i'm a socialist!