 OK…let me get this straight:After two years of registering record numbers of Latinos and new American citizens, who are overwhelmingly supporting Democratic candidates like never before, and who hold the fate of several key swing states in their hands. After GOTV efforts are in place to bring this new voting block to the polls in record numbers come November 4th. After every demographic survey done in the last ten years points to the growing political power of Latinos, new immigrants, and those born during the current immigration wave from 1965 until the present of immigrant parents. After every poll done of this important demographic shows that the rabid anti-immigrant rhetoric of the Republican Party has driven this group into the arms of the Democrats NOW … YOU WANT TO TELL US THAT "THE WHOLE PATH TO CITIZENSHIP THING NEEDS TO BE SCRAPPED" IN THE SPIRIT OF "BIPARTISANSHIP" WTF IS THE POINT OF REPLACING BAD REPUBLICANS WITH SPINELESS DEMS, IF THE RESULTS ARE THE SAME? ENJOY THAT MAJORITY WHILE YOU CAN MS. PELOSI … I GUESS YOUR IDEA OF "CHANGE" IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF THOSE WHO VOTE TO PUT YOUR PARTY IN POWER. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that Congress is unlikely to approve a tax rebate before President Bush leaves office, and she signaled that prospects are dim for a postelection session to pass an economic aid package.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Pelosi played down the chances that Democrats — increasingly confident of capturing the White House and building their House and Senate majorities substantially — could come to terms with Bush and vanquished congressional Republicans this fall on a plan to address Americans'
… Pelosi spoke in exuberant terms of capitalizing on a political "tide" gathering in favor of Democrats to beef up her majority. If a wave materializes to sweep out Republicans en masse, Democrats might not see a point in attempting to negotiate with Bush on an economic recovery measure when they have the chance, 11 weeks later, to do so with Barack Obama in the White House.
…Pelosi also said Congress would have to tackle the politically sticky job of overhauling immigration laws in the new Congress, after a bipartisan measure collapsed last year.
The estimated 12 million immigrants in the U.S. illegally "are part of the U.S. economy. We cannot send them all home, and we cannot send them all to jail, so we have to address it," Pelosi said.
Any solution would have to be bipartisan, she said, so it may require sacrificing some of Democrats' past priorities, such as giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship.
"Maybe there never is a path to citizenship if you came here illegally," Pelosi said. "I would hope that there could be, but maybe there isn't."
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