Posted on 08/30/2005 10:34:44 PM PDT by goldstategop
Pat Buchanan, former communications director to President Ronald Reagan, former presidential candidate and WND commentator, has come to the conclusion that a courageous Republican legislator should move a bill for impeachment of President Bush.
I reluctantly agree – and for the same reasons.
President Bush has had nearly six years in office to honor his oath of office and enforce immigration laws in this country.
He has not only failed, he has intentionally neglected this sworn duty, instead claiming he prefers to promote a vague immigration "reform" plan that involved a "guest worker" program that has served as an encouragement to the most massive influx of illegal immigration this country has ever seen.
Some will tell me this can't be done and that it is irresponsible to propose it because Bush is a wartime president.
My response? It is precisely because this nation finds itself in a desperate war declared by a formidable foe determined to use our open borders to destroy this country that we must act now.
Some will remind me I endorsed Bush just two years ago for re-election.
My response? I made it very clear at the time that I was not really endorsing Bush, per se, but seeking the only practical way to defeat his reckless and irresponsible and treasonous opponent. There is no contradiction here. Kerry had to be defeated. Now Bush must go. America can do better.
I don't agree with many of Pat Buchanan's foreign policy ideas. But on the border, he is 100 percent right. Bush has been a disaster. No matter how successful we might be in our campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can lose this war against jihadist Islam right here at home.
Our enemies have already used the open border to penetrate this country – and they will do so again.
When Bush placed the old Immigration and Naturalization Service under the new Department of Homeland Security, I actually believed he recognized how critical border security was to the defense of our homeland. I was fooled.
In the current issue of my premium, online, intelligence newsletter, G2 Bulletin, author Paul Williams recounts in extravagant detail how al-Qaida operatives have already used the open Mexican border not only to sneak operatives into the country but to smuggle in nuclear weapons with the help of the MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) street gang.
The fuse has been lit.
The war in Iraq, which I have supported, will mean little when, not if, a nuclear weapon is detonated inside our own country.
When that happens, we will no longer be having debates about who has more culpability for Sept. 11 – Bush or his predecessor. Bush has had ample opportunity to address the mistakes of the past. Instead, he has repeated them. They say hindsight is 20-20. Not for Bush.
Even if the border issue and the tsunami of illegal immigration was not strictly speaking the No. 1 national security issue we face, enforcing the laws of the land would be the right thing to do – the only moral and right thing to do.
Americans are dealing with more joblessness, higher crime, skyrocketing taxes, a crippled medical system, overcrowded jails, an overburdened judicial and law enforcement system, costly and divisive language barriers and changing demographics that are permanently transforming the U.S. culture.
Why?
Bush claims it is because America needs cheap labor. That's what the law of supply and demand is all about. It's not his duty or responsibility to acquire workers for big corporations and other fat cats below what the market will support.
I don't even believe Bush is being honest when he makes this argument. I am convinced there are international agreements behind this. I am persuaded the systematic destruction of the American way of life through uncontrolled and illegal immigration is part of a master plan for merger and global consolidation – first with our neighbors in this hemisphere and later worldwide.
This secretive plot must end here and now.
America was founded on the principle of independence and sovereignty. The president is betraying our most sacred national heritage.
Bush is ignoring the will of the people and he is violating the law of the land.
It's time to turn up the heat.
As Buchanan suggested: Will even one courageous Republican member of Congress have the guts to sponsor a bill of impeachment?
Leaving our borders wide open in a time of war. How is THAT not giving aid and comfort to our enemies?
Much thanks for the March 2005 article!
The good thing about discussion is we gather a lot more information than we started out with.
You are claiming that 534 additions in AZ are NEW HIRES?
I'm not claiming anything. I quoted the article. From whence came the 534 "new' border patrol agents? I don't know.
And, yes, something else doesn't add up. I was incorrect- the congress authorized 2000 per year, Bush hired 210.
Maybe he hired more than 210 and maybe 534 went to Arizona.
An April 2005 Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs press release;
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Thursday applauded Senate approval of additional funding for border security.
Lieberman co-sponsored an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2005 supplemental spending bill by Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., to increase by $390 million what the federal government will spend on border security. The funding represents an advance payment on the increases in border agents and detention beds authorized for FY 2006 spending by the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.
“Right now, we have a finger-in-the-dike approach to protecting our borders,” Lieberman said. “With just under 11,000 agents protecting 6,000 miles of border, thousands of people enter our country illegally every day. The new Border Patrol agents hired and trained because of this amendment will improve immigration enforcement and strengthen our hand in the war against terrorism.”
The Byrd amendment, which was approved by the Senate late Wednesday, would pay for 650 Border Patrol agents, 250 Immigrations and Customs Enforcement investigators, and 168 enforcement agents and detention officers.An additional $10 million would be spent on unmanned aerial vehicles on the Southern border. And $66 million would pay for an additional 2,000 detention beds, allowing the government to house 20,500 aliens at any one time.
The Byrd amendment begins to fulfill border security requirements of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, authored by Lieberman and HSGAC Chairman Susan Collins, R-Me., which authorized the hiring of an additional 2,000 border agents each year for five years, an additional 800 ICE investigators each year for five years, and the creation of 8,000 additional detention beds each year for five years.
If 2000 were authorized for 2005, why didn't the Senate provide money for 2000?
Yeah. How is that not giving aid and comfort to our enemies? Someone please explain.
I agree....George is coming in on the side of business and foresaking the American communities that made this country great...He's not doing us any favors at all!
I agree....George is coming in on the side of business and foresaking the American communities that made this country great...He's not doing us any favors at all!
Both of you knock it off.
I'm not surrendering. Not even close.
I'm putting the resources where they will be most effective.
Big difference.
I believe that's been covered, hasn't it??? Congress voted to add 10,000 new Border Agents...Bush said NO...
Just as union extortion causes artificially high wages, Mexican illegals lead to artificially low wages for the citizen working man. If one builder uses Mexican labor, his competitor also needs to use the Mexican labor to compete. The citizen carpenter is then forced to work at the same wages as the Mexican. I know this by experience.
Anybody who has the mental capacity to think this through, could see that its the democrats that hold the nation hostage by hysterical howls of racism any time any one tries to do anything.
Introducing a bill of impeachment might be a succor to Dems and other terrorist supporters, but someone needs to impress upon Bush that he works for US and NOT for Vicente Fox. To allow the borders to be as porous as they are in wartime is not just ignorance, it's criminal stupidity.
Northeast Republican office holders are generally pretty oblivious to the attitudes and opinions of the rest of the US....and Bush is no different (don't give me this "He's from Texas" jive....look at his family background. He was highly influenced by his dad, and Bush 41 is the quintessential northeastern "old money" Republican. They are both good and essentially decent men, but also thick as a brick when it comes to grasping the needs and attitudes of the vast majority of the population). Bush's willful ignoring of the border, save for the occasional "shut folks up" sop, such as hiring a whole 200 rather than 2000 Border Patrol officers, is what is causing many of his former supporters to begin thinking impeachment.
I don't necessarily want to see him thrown out....I want to see him woken up and kicked in the ass to DO SOMETHING AND ASSERT AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY AGAIN. Those representatives and senators who aid and abet illegal aliens should be thrown out of office and indicted as accessories to trafficking in illegal aliens, or treason, as the case may be. As long as the political class in this country can disregard our national sovereignty and disrespect our culture (bilingual everything, honoring Mexican holidays, etc.) with impunity, then WE HAVE NO COUNTRY!
We need to look beyond the Republicans.....they've proven to be no better than the Democrats on many issues, and worse on some. Maybe it's time conservatives said "Good bye" to the Republicans and "Hello" to a Conservative Party. This might be just the issue to do it on. That, or proceed with a Bill of Impeachment for Dereliction of Duty in Wartime.....either way, what has to be done to save our country will be painful.
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