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There were actually 103 members to be exact http://tancredo.house.gov/irc/members.html. However, some of these are NOT "build a fence and expel them all" extremists, but simply of the opinion that something needed to be done.

Dane didn't make that differentiation.

I don't understand the venom, either. Did she turn you down for a date or something? It is just a discussion, after all.

Dane repeatedly plays long and fast with the facts, and in this case she got caught lying - she has been making the claim on thread after thread that a third of the Tancredo caucus got the boot when that is nowhere near the case, in order to make a dishonest slime attack on that grup. She is not an honest poster - and such people deserve all the derision they get.

But nice job of impunging my motives rather than deal with the fact that Dane got caught in a bald-faced lie. But that's pretty typical of the tactics from your side.

Tancredo's House Immigration Caucus had 103 members as of the previous Congress. Of those 103 members, the following were defeated for re-election to Congress: Charlie Bass (R-NH), Jeb Bradley (R-NH), Jim Ryun (R-KS), John E. Sweeney (R-NY), Charles Taylor (R-NC), Gil Gutknecht (R-MN), and J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ).

That adds up to a total of 7 out of 103 defeated for re-election. Dane's statement does not appear to be grounded in any facts, much like Dane's previous claim that "no hard-right candidate on immigration won election to an open House seat in 2006".

Despite Dane's delusions that every Congressional race in the country looked like J.D. Hayworth district, there is amble evidence to the contrary. Here in Ilinois, retiring House Immigration Caucus member Henry Hyde was suceeded by the even more right-wing Peter Roskam. As much as Dane would like to pretend he and the other 14 new Republicans in Congress don't exist, they will provide amble numbers to replace the old members of Tanc's immigration caucus -- not to mention several conservative Democrats who got elected on such a platform.