Ramesh the Maiden-Voiced, opining:
We may very well need to improve our infrastructure... If contracting the job out to foreign companies gets us better infrastructure at less cost, we should do that.
Damn.
I'd quite like to see the GOP running in 2008 on precisely that sentiment, phrased in exactly those terms. Hell: psst, confidential to any GOP campaign gurus reading this, please run your '08 guy on these sentiments expressed in that language. Please.
ADDING, this is one of the places where wingnut economic orthodoxy meets orthodox wingnut xenophobia. Foreigners! Building our infrastructure! Shudder.