Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
Posted on 05/22/2006 4:14:55 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. |
WASHINGTON – Two years ago, he was as lonely as the Maytag repairman – an obscure congressman trying desperately to raise the visibility of an issue he believed threatened the very security of the U.S.
More recently, he has become a force to be reckoned with, the leader of a powerful House caucus, a Republican who has taken on the president, a man respected for outspoken positions and the political force behind what has become the hottest issue in the nation.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus and the undisputed heavyweight champion of the border security issue in the nation's capital, now tells the whole story of the threats facing the nation, the solutions within its grasp and his own personal quest to awaken the political establishment to the seething discontentment gripping America as a result of illegal immigration.
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In his new book, "In Mortal Danger," published by WND Books, Tancredo warns that the country is on a course to the dustbin of history. Like the great and mighty empires of the past, he writes, superpowers that once stretched from horizon to horizon, America is heading down the road to ruin.
English historian Edward Gibbon, in penning his classic "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" (ironically published in the year America's Founding Fathers declared independence from Great Britain), theorized that Rome fell because it rotted from within. It succumbed to barbarian invasions because of a loss of civic virtue, its citizens became lazy and soft, hiring barbarian mercenaries to defend the empire because they were unwilling to defend it themselves.
Tancredo says America is following in the tragic footsteps of Rome.
Living up to his reputation for candor, Tancredo explains how the economic success and historical military prowess of the United States has transformed a nation founded on Judeo-Christian principles of right and wrong into an overindulgent, self-deprecating, immoral cesspool of depravity.
His recipe for turning things around?
Without strong, moral leadership, without a renewed sense of purpose, without a rededication to family and community, without shunning the race hustlers and pop-culture sham artists, without protecting borders, language and culture, the nation that once was "the land of the free and home of the brave" and the "one last best hope of mankind" will repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the past, he writes.
Tancredo, born and raised in Colorado, represents Colorado's 6th district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to his election to Congress in 1998, Tancredo worked as a schoolteacher, was elected to the Colorado State House of Representatives in 1976, was appointed by President Reagan as the secretary of education's regional representative in 1981, and served as president of the Independence Institute. He serves on the International Relations Committee, the Resources Committee and the Budget Committee, and is the chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus. Tancredo and his wife, Jackie, reside in Littleton, Colo.
Tancredo is a negative populist, like Pat Buchanan, and his political career, beyond Congress, is a non-starter.
Are you saying that being a teacher isn't a worthwhile profession?
Excellent. An new line of attack. Now if you will just teach your comrades to be as creative as you are, we can look forward to some entirely new and entertaining character assassination from the open borders lobby. That recycled DU material was getting old.
But tancredo shows up at a White House Christmas party.
I think in President Bush we have moral leadership. The problem is the media who are lapdogs for the left have done all they could to destroy him, and now people of his own party have bought into the propaganda as well. They should know better, but.......!
It looks to me that he is saying the same things your hero Bill Bennet says.
Only because of the Hispanics in the country.
One thing is certain: the number of young people working to support an older population on Social Security is unsustainable.
Sorry, when you have Catholic Bishops and priests "thumbing their noses" at the law, and helping illegals after they've broken the law by crossing our borders,the Church is complicit in aiding and abetting criminals.
Apparently bearing false witness is fine by you if it advances your agenda. Is that the Screwtape catechism you're using?
Bill Bennett is not my hero.
You're a Patsy, so you'll defend Buchanan, no matter what he says.
Well so much for Tancredo jumping on the immigration issue for political gain.
He was taken aback in the mid 70's by rules pertaining to immigration and he went into politics to see it changed. Hardly something NEW for him an I would offer this.
He has been in politics for a long time because he had a goal to see immigration rules put back into check.
I find it amazing that you would FAULT him for doing something LONF TERM that he has sought after from the very start.
SO then the reform of Social Security is to have tens of millions of mexicans come to work here and draw more Social Security? Is that it?
I was just thinking how if Tancredo gets on the Republican ticket in 08 and you and Dane keep attacking him then you both will be banned....LOL. Of course we all know that if Tancredo gets on the republican ticket in 08 then you will be out there attacking anyone who has a bad word to say about him.
Seems Tom Teriffic has something else in common with pat buchanan...his book came out this month and is already heavily discounted.
If confronted with a ballot featuring McCain and Hellery, I will write in Tancredo. He has been right all along.
Mr. Tancredo has given a voice to a lot of people who have a serious concern about this big problem. ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Our strength in this country is NOT in our diversity when no one can communicate, and one culture is taken precedence over the existing culture.
Sorry, He is the vehicle to help bring to light and hopefully solve a real problem.
Lol. No, but you're someone who repeats useful character assassination despite your church's prohibition against it. You just don't like getting called on it when you've been making a practice of it for years and have no intention of quitting.
Tancredo is a lightweight and a loose cannon. He has zero chance of being on anything but a third party ticket in 2008.
Actually, the Republican party can and will be split over open border policy that Mr. Bush is planting with a huge amnesty for people who are illegally here.
By the way, the Senate just passed legislation to give these illegal aliens SS benes at your expense. They steal SS#'s, and work illegally, now they will receive benes on a soon to be bankrupt system.
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