Posted on 02/09/2006 12:18:44 PM PST by Reagan Man
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.-Colo.) didn’t hold back in his criticism of President Bush this morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference—delivering what amounted to a presidential stump speech that could have easily been delivered in New Hampshire or Iowa.
Tancredo attacked the administration for its support of a guest-worker program for illegal aliens and its big-spending ways on education and Medicare prescription drugs.
“It is the President who is out of step with his party, not Tom Tancredo,” the Colorado Republican said to applause at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Northwest Washington, D.C.
Tancredo called for the repeal of two programs offered by President Bush: the No Child Left Behind Act and the Medicare prescription drug program. Both expanded the cost of government and drew the scorn of conservatives in Congress.
Tancredo said the Big Government policies of the Bush administration need to be halted. He said conservatives must return the GOP to a “party of individual rights and shouldn’t afraid to say it.”
Moral relativism in the name of of power is no virtue.
"Duped"? Naw, I'm sure we can drum up enough apologists to elect him to Congress no matter how many puppies he kicks along the way. Just imagine you times a few thousand, and it's entirely understandable how these events occur from time to time.
Coburn's constituents cared, and would no doubt have voted him back in for a fourth term.
But, there's this little thing called personal integrity. To stay true to himself, Coburn stepped down because he had promised he would.
Tancredo appears to want to hang on to his House seat like a Pope.
"The only thing about JD is that he was one of the top 5 moneygetters from Abramoff."
Posting the DNC talking points I see.
He'd have more clout as a Senator.
I heard Tancredo live at the Michigan Federation of College Republicans Convention (no cameras) last Saturday. He's not a very good public speaker, and he was unable to articulate anything well enough to make a strong argument, instead stringing together a bunch of populist soundbites. Though he had a few good things to say, I was far from impressed with him.
Well, that's incorrect. Tom Tancredo is not only a good conservative, he's a loyal Republican who supports PresBush on most issues. Immigration reform is not one of them, however. Neither is excessive spending or big governemnt bureaucarcy.
Tancredo has sponsored or co-sponsored many pieces of legislation in the House. Here is a link to Tancredo's last action on immigration reform: HR3333: Rewarding Employers that Abide by the Law and Guaranteeing Uniform Enforcement to Stop Terrorism Act of 2005 or the REAL GUEST Act of 2005
Good stuff. Check it out.
Not as long as disruptors can use it as a tool to divide ...
"Tancredo appears to want to hang on to his House seat like a Pope."
He has had that seat since 1998. Surely you can see the flaw in this sentence without me, right?
I hadn't read that response yet.
If he is saying he is unelectable, WHY waste the time and money of trying?
I am certain he could start something else with that time and money otherwise?
And if he gets eliminated early, and I think there is decent/good chance of that happening, what would he do then? Some will see it as egg on his face. I won't, but some will. Others will start to ask what were his motives?
And I wonder if the prospective GOP candidates will continue to talk about immigration at all after Tancredo is out. My guess is that if it isn't a hot issue at the time, they won't.
Somewhere out there, Tancredo is reading your post and reaching for a dictionary....
(Now whisper it ;-))
The you go again, just like your pal, dividing as hard as you can ...
2. I think that the education act should have had vouchers, and although I understand why it wasn't possible, I would have liked to have seen more of a fight for vouchers. Of course, that was when Jeffords jumped ship (puttin HIS principle before party) so perhaps that was the best he could do.
3. I would have liked to have seen the highway bill vetoed, even though there were probably the votes to override it. It would have called the public's attention to the amount of money being spent, and perhaps shamed some of the worst porkers.
"My guess is that if it isn't a hot issue at the time, they won't."
I don't know the line of thinking Tancredo is using, but he probably wants to see a spot as a republican candidate for president as a platform to speak out against illegal immigration, see how many supporters he can get, and hope that one of the other more electable candidates sees it and seizes on it. But Tancredo has said he would stand a nearly zero chance.
He probably is trying to avoid what you wrote about by testing the waters in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
Would follow the Party over a cliff like a lemming right OR wrong if necessary?
I've heard Tom Tancredo speak on several occasions and while he's not a great speaker, he is very articulate, extremely knowledgable and highly convincing. Of course, when you have the factual truth on your side, its pretty easy convincing people you're right on the issues. On immigration reform, reducing spending, limited govt, Tancredo is where all conservatives should be. On the right side.
The last list I saw had those 5 on top. It doesn't necessarily mean any of them did anything the least unethical, although Ney seems to be in trouble and given Reid's past associations with gambling commissions in his state and the legal troubles he was in once before, it looks circumstantially bad for him, too. With the remaining three, as I said, the other two Senators had lots of tribes in their own states so they would naturally support those kinds of causes anyway.
Arizona Carolyn said, though, that plenty of Congressmen took money from out of state interests related to Abramoff. It still doesn't mean anything, but that takes away some exculpatory evidence.
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