[SittinYonder]

On Federal Spending:
“The federal government is in debt because it spends too much, not because it taxes people too little. Government spending is classified as either discretionary or mandatory. Discretionary spending includes funds for things like the military and is explicitly set by Congress on an annual basis. But the major culprit in ballooning budgets is mandatory spending for entitlement programs like medicare, expenditures which are determined by the number of beneficiaries. The only way to control the budget is to reform the entitlement programs that mandatory spending funds. Those decisions on how to allocate resources are as economically necessary as they are politically and ethically difficult. ”
-Tom Tancredo

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[bybybill]

I`m confused. What is the difference between Tancredo and Murtha on Iraq?

[SittinYonder]

In doing this ping list, I try to do a google news search for Tancredo every morning, looking for articles to post and ping.

Most mornings there has been none or one or two that are a variation of each other.

The last few days, though, Tancredo has been more and more in the news. It's still largely illegal immigration, but not entirely.

I do believe his awareness level is raising.

I'm posting a couple of more links in this thread rather than posting additional stories.

[SittinYonder]

From the Hill:

Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) is serious enough about his patriotism that he put a spotlight on the flag that hangs at all times over his garage. Tancredo, a fifth-term lawmaker, will spend much of the day with his family. They have a red, white and blue tablecloth and napkins. Last year, his wife even made patriotic ice cubes — star-shaped and dyed red and blue.

“I’ve got a red, white and blue Western shirt with ‘Vote’ written all over it,” he said. And he loves to blare the patriotic tunes. Tancredo and his wife would crank the volume on the Boston Pops Fourth of July performance “so loud you could hear it all over the neighborhood.”

Tancredo said he, too, lets his emotions get the better of him when thinking about America. He recalled becoming emotional after Sept. 11, when lawmakers spontaneously came out of the Capitol and sang “God Bless America.”

The DesMoines Register went for the headline rather than the substance:

Headline: "Tancredo: It's possible to deport 12 million"

Story:

The Colorado congressman, however, argued that tougher border security and a crackdown on employers would reduce the need for mass deportations and encourage such immigrants to return to their native countries willingly.

And from the Modesto Bee:

But Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado also was smiling because he finished third in the Linn County Republican Party's straw poll in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

First and Second were Thompson (no, not him, Tommy Thompson) and Brownback.