Top priority for GOP today: The "American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act"

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Dead as Horse Meat

The Nation -- Immigration reform is off until after the '06 elections. Security and mortgage moms are bolting the GOP. The conventional wisdom in Washington is that Democrats will take back the House of Representatives in November. So how are nervous House Republicans responding in their first week back in session after a month long recess? By talking about horse meat.

The "American House Slaughter Prevention Act," introduced by GOP Rep. John Sweeney (news, bio, voting record) and up for a vote Thursday, attempts to stop the sale of horse meat for human consumption. A laudable goal. But the top priority for the House?

Is this how Republicans plan to spend their two or three remaining weeks in Washington before the midterms? Well, not completely. They'll also try and paint the Democrats as the party of "retreat and defeat" in the war on terror, by scheduling votes on defense and homeland security spending bills, and authorizing Bush's warrantless wiretapping program (recently ruled unconstitutional by a US district court) and military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, (recently ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court).

Yet even the GOP's advantage on security has eroded. Which isn't to say that Democrats won't find a way to blow it. But, odds are, in a few months at least some sitting Republicans will be dead as horse meat.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060905/cm_thenation/15118552

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1. I'm ok with this...we've been fighting for this ban for years. Maybe

not important to some but important to others. If passed it will also keep our wild horses from being sold to foreign owned slaughter houses. I am all for that! Nothing represents my freedom more than the wild horses. And Sen. Burns can rot in hell for suggesting they are not important enough to protect.

No argument that there are other important issues, but it isn't our fault that the republican run congress has been absent for so many days these last few years.

Trudy
www.pryorsplanet.com

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2. Check out this video...

http://www.khou.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=85070&catId=35