The Tank is now a member of the House Minority. What little influence he had before is now gone anyway.
This Congressman from Colorado was on a visit to Florida and decided to publicly trash the largest city in that state. The immigration issue is not the issue; the issue is that NO state is going to appreciate any Congresscritter showing up and criticising their state.
Imagine the uproar if Congressman Rangel came down to Georgia and decried all the rednecks that live in the state. Nobody in Georgia would appreciate that. Rangel wouldn't do that, because even he wouldn't be that stupid. You don't trash another Congresscritter's district; you are in Congress to represent your own, not dump on others.
There are plenty of Latinos and Latinas who live in Miami that are US Citizens and are neither from Mexico nor Cuba -- like my stepmother and her family who are from Venezuela. I like many of the Latinos is Miami a lot more than I like blowhards like Tancredo.
The Tank would have been well advised to help work out the best deal he could with the Senate and the President last year. He didn't. Guess what -- he won't even be a bit player in '07 on this issue and the Bill that will pass will be even less to his liking than what he could have helped pass last year. No, it wouldn't have been exactly what he wanted -- but it would have helped.
I actually hope he does run for President. After he gets crushed we won't be bothered by his nonsense in the future.
The problem is Tancredo wont get the Republican nomination, but may put up a third party run. He will do a Perot and get some Dem elected.
Tancredo is a racist blowhard and I suspect is secretly on the payroll of La raza and other extreme groups trying to make border security conservatives look bed and push an amnesty on the American populaion.