Daddy wants an indictment today, please:

[jrittenhouse]

Americablog asks the question: OK, where's the $2 billion for the border stuff going to come from?  Bush was supposed to allocate money for Border Agents in the budget for thousands of new agents and had the authority to do so years ago in a law passed by Congress, but refused to do so.  And Senator Byrd was on the floor of the Senate yesterday

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[marklafon]

Tucked into the wonderful stuff passed was an amendment requiring government issued ID (I think photo ID but I am not sure) to vote in a federal election. It was apparently added at the last minute and not announced.

As to the status of English as our national language: What degree of fluency will be required? I can say "I do not speak your language" in about 6 languages but am only fluent in English. (OK, also a few dialects of English.) To judge from his speeches our President is marginal in American Standard English. Would some one who can answer only basic questions in English be counted as fluent?

[debgeisler]

As to the status of English as our national language: What degree of fluency will be required? I can say "I do not speak your language" in about 6 languages but am only fluent in English. (OK, also a few dialects of English.) To judge from his speeches our President is marginal in American Standard English.

Ah, but you answer your own question: complete fluency is not necessary, but you must be at least as adept in English as the current president of the U.S.

Texas accent not required.

[rmjwell]

Hey, no children were left behind. Just the money.

I still think the question Jon Stewart posed to Howard Dean is the salient one: "How will Democrats screw up the 2006 elections?"