With mere hours left before adjournment, the Senate is getting down to business:

The Senate gave its final approval yesterday for President Bush’s proposal for interrogating and prosecuting the terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, sending the legislation to the White House for Mr. Bush’s signature.

Immediately after that vote, the Senate agreed to vote today on the bill to construct 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. After a week of stalling the bill, Democrats supported the procedural move.

In the meantime, President Bush is getting pretty tough with his rhetoric:

President Bush yesterday said Democrats have ditched the tradition of the great war-fighting presidents of the 20th century to become “the party of cut and run,” and accused them of using leaked excerpts of a recent intelligence estimate to mislead voters before midterm elections.

The gloves are off, Autumn is nearly here. That means politics is front and center and fall beers are beginning to stock the shelves of all the grocery markets — I am not sure which I am more excited about.

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