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Florida has lost another incumbent Republican in Representative Mark Foley.  He resigned abruptly when emails he sent to a sixteen year old came to light.  This guy is a pervert, pure and simple.

Because of his problems, the Democrats stand a very good chance of picking up a seat in the House.

The Hedgehog Report has more details on the cost to Republicans and Florida.

Democrats are understandably all over this story.  Apparently they smell blood in the water.  What I do not understand is some of the vitriol coming out of their camp.  There is even one blog, whose post I will not reveal due to its malevolence and nastiness, who is calling Foley a child molester even though only emails were sent.  He then goes on to suggest that Bush would not have won the 2000 election without the help of child molester and says anyone who votes Republican is covering up for this ‘child molester.’

There sick people out there who need help.  Mark Foley is obviously one.  Bill Clinton is another, only we never hear the left discuss their hero’s proclivities.  Foley had enough concern for his constituents to resign.  Clinton decided to stick it out and drag the country through years of investigations and cover-up.  This is not to say Foley has done nothing wrong.  He is a pervert and did the right thing by resigning.  Lost in this debate is the American people who may not have a choice of who to vote for in November.

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It seems Congress is never far from politics as usual, but at least they took the time to pass legislation which would give funds towards building a fence along the southern border.

Republicans will go into the elections with a message that they’ve made great strides fighting illegal immigration, including authorizing a fence along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border and making a $1.2 billion down payment on it.

Among its final tasks before leaving to campaign, the Senate on Friday night passed and sent to President Bush a bill authorizing 700 new miles of fencing on the southern border. No one knows how much it will cost, but a separate bill also on the way to the White House makes a $1.2 billion down payment on it. A 14-mile segment of fence under construction in San Diego is costing $126.5 million.

The fence bill was passed by the House two weeks ago. The Senate vote on it Friday night was 80-19.

In addition to money for starting work on the fence, a homeland security bill passed Friday by the House and later by the Senate includes $380 million to hire 1,500 more Border Patrol agents and money to build detention facilities to hold 6,700 more illegal immigrants until they can be deported.

This is all great news.  The Senate has finally seen the light and realized a ‘comprehensive’ immigration bill had zero chance of passing the House.  Instead of digging in their heels and doing nothing, the Senators chose to focus on what the House of Representatives had passed which was a fence only measure.  By passing this legislation, they correctly decided to protect America first, and then work on other things.

Even though the vote was 80-19, Nancy Pelosi could not celebrate the achievements of Congress to protect the US.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said the border security achievements trumpeted by Republicans don’t measure up to the more comprehensive reforms her party backed. What the GOP calls achievements fall “very far short of what Democrats have proposed over and over and over again,” she said.

If Pelosi did not like the bill which came through the Senate, maybe she should have used her position to influence more of her colleagues in the Senate to vote against this bill.  But the bill passed overwhelmingly.  The House Minority Speaker seems to think the GOP voted against a comprehensive plan because the Democrats supported it.  This is far from the truth.  Most of the House voted against Senate plan because it gave amnesty to illegal aliens.  Pelosi is looking at all the new voters who would immediately become voters.  She isn’t stupid.  Considering the voting history of Hispanics in the US, this would constitute boon for the Democrats.  John Zogby says Hispanics vote Democratic two to one over Republicans—advantage Democrats.  And this is what the Democratic plan was all about: increasing the number of voters who tend to vote for the Democratic Party.

Thank goodness, the House was able to see through this charade.  The politicians in Washington have a job to do—protecting the American people.  Everything else, including scheming for more votes, should be a distant second.

Tagworld has more on the issue of illegal immigration and the actions of Congress.

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