NYT: ‘Pit Bull’ of the House Latches Onto Immigration

[kskiska]

WASHINGTON, July 10 — Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. has no tolerance for illegal immigrants, either in his political life or personal life.

“My housekeeper in Wisconsin was born in Wisconsin,” says Mr. Sensenbrenner, the Republican congressman and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. “My housekeeper here is a naturalized U.S. citizen from Nicaragua.”

Mr. Sensenbrenner is so loath to risk dealing with illegal immigrants that when his Cadillacs need cleaning, he prefers do-it-yourself car washes that require tokens. “They don’t have Montezuma’s picture on the front of them,” Mr. Sensenbrenner says of the tokens.

He is sitting in his Capitol Hill office dominated by two life-size portraits of himself. He looms heavily here, as he does in the thick of the national debate over immigration in which he has defied President Bush’s plans for reform and arguably holds more sway than anyone else in Congress. A bipartisan irritant from a state nowhere near the Mexican border, he has outsize influence on the fate of the country’s estimated 11 million illegal immigrants.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/washington/11sensenbrenner.html?hp&ex=1152590400&en=770b85ec377e7588&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[Ms. Clio]

1. If the Dems play their cards right on this one, Latinos won't vote Repuke

for generations.

[katinmn]

2. Sounds like a f***ing bigot!!

What a shame this slob chairs an important committee.

[Avalux]

3. Hammer's gone but the Pit Bull's still there. Bunch of thugs.

That's all these guys are; thugs.

[Redstone]

4. Well, ain't he nothin'

Redstone

[depakid]

5. The people of his district should be utterly ashamed

Sending a person like that to Congress is an insult to the nation- and this is Wisconsin here- not some Southern or lower midwest state. People there know ought to know better

[badgervan]

8. Rich Folks Love Tex

Tex is from a super rich heavily repub suburb of Milwaukee, so I'm afraid that he'll be around for awhile. All states have a few of these districts, which makes it so important to take back the House and Senate in November. Most Wisconsinites despise the fat piece of s..t, and he in no way represents the way most of us feel on issues.

[Up2Late]

6. Oh, You know what's GREAT about that headline? In Iraq it's going to...

...translate as a MAJOR Insult!

I heard today that someone from the Pentagon, who was training Iraqi Solders or Judges, I can't remember which, told the Iraqis he was training to be like "Pit Bulls" and almost all of them nearly quit on the spot, thinking they were being insulted.

That's about the worst thing you can call an Iraqi! :evilgrin:

[jobycom]

7. Nobody from Wisconsin is allowed to bash Trent Lott again until

this racist Yankee white trash is taken out of the House.