Noem frustrated with GOP's apparent lack of vision

South Dakota's current At-large representative, Republican Kristi Noem, met with donors in Rapid City recently. Her political party's stonewalling on immigration is preventing some Black Hills businesses to hire summer help.

While Obama-bashing has become almost a sport among Republicans across the nation and here in South Dakota, U.S. Rep. Kristi Noem, R-South Dakota, said Wednesday that it's time for GOP leaders to step up and define a vision of their own for America's future. Noem, now in her third term in Congress, broke ranks a bit from her GOP colleagues by criticizing a recent effort by House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio to hold up funding for the Department of Homeland Security as a way to pressure Obama to rescind his executive amnesty order that could allow as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants to temporarily stay in the country and work. [Rapid City Journal]

She tossed bones to her campaign contributors by railing against the protection of endangered species like the northern long-eared bat and for more money for the Neiman family to log the old growth ponderosa pine essential to preserving Black Hills habitat.

South Dakota's GOP-dominated legislature is also pandering to the logging industry by voting to give them more cash.

Boehner and Pelosi might have just started to make the House sane http://t.co/Xaz6h8Abtb pic.twitter.com/ISQY5dJyLW
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