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?
Just as long as you run off to bed. I can tell you're tired.
"President Bush has had nearly six years in office to honor his oath of office and enforce immigration laws in this country."
Unusual calendar. Mine yields less than five years. Less than four years, eight months, to be more precise. Just four years, seven months, and ten days to be even more precise.
The truth is neither Bush, or all of congress has done enough to curb illegal immigration, and that is how they all want it to stay.
So it is as much of a stretch to lay it all off on Bush, as to say "nearly six years."
If you're going to impeach Bush then you also need to impeach about 99 Senators and 425 Congress idiots !
If Americans care about this issue, (i hope they do) let's take this issue on the streets... people's power is unanimously stronger and prayers too.
Probably political posturing in advance of the '06 mid-term elections. I seriously doubt we'll see any changes in border policy at any time, ever.
Cheap illegal immigrant labor is just too intoxicating an inducement for Bush's corporate handlers.
He has been a complete failure on these issues, no one can deny that. He has completely ignored the will of the American people to pursue his globalist goals.
The choices that American voters have been given for the past two elections have been pi** poor, and we're paying for it. If impeachment will wake America up, I say DO IT!
We'll stick with this for awhile, if you don't mind.
So, if what you claim is true, then you agree Bush should be impeached?
Something does not add up . . .
"We've added 534 new Border Patrol agents in Arizona and 23 new aircraft," he said. "We're very aware of the frustration that exists along the border and we share some of those frustrations."
. . . A Richardson spokesman said Chertoff called the governor yesterday and assured him that security along the border is a priority for DHS and that some of the 1,000 border patrol agents expected to be added next year will be posted to New Mexico.
I wonder if President Bush would have been re-elected if he had alienated the hispanic voting bloc by closing the border? I wonder if we can win in '08 if we do it now? I want the border closed too, but I also want a republican in the WH for the next 8 years. I think that congress needs to pass a law so the blame gets spread around by everyone. (I notice Clinton didn't do it during his 8)
You left out something. We are also at war with terrorists. The liberal Democrats in this country are allied with the terrorists, they want the USA to lose this war on terrorism to make GWB look bad. The liberal Democrats don't care what happens to the USA, they just want to elect a Hillary.
I appreciate your priorities, and a BIG welcome to Free Republic!
A Quack who once stated that Y2K was going to be God's Judgement upon us all.
The both of you sound like drunks at a cheap bar taking pot shots at each other from across the room, with neither hitting the other.
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