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.
yes that's what a Ponzi /Pyramid scheme will do over time, be unsustanable...another thing President Bush didn't fix, but exacerbate..wait till he gets his totalization with Mexico completed!
I'll be buying a copy on payday.
That may be true. The reason though is because of money. Your team only supports Global players. Those who want to further the world order, and deminish what America itself is.
If tancredo has so little chance then why do some folks rail against him so much with the same rhetoric over and over and over?
You might want to think he is a lightweight but you might find yourself unpleasently surprised.
Notice how Mr. doom and gloom tancredo has never worked in a wealth producing endeavor.
So will I.
So long as he (Dane) can make a buck off of it, it appears to be fine with him.
"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"
Comrades? Oh yeah trying to allude to communism and socialism
open borders lobby? - oh yeah all folks that dont agree with Tancredo are for open boders right
Recycled DU material- What? Oh I am sorry i guess the fact that Tancredo was head of Colorodo Term limits broke his pledge and has problems with the leadership is all a DU myth Right
LOL!! Bush tried to fix it, but you, and other Republicans, just sat on your asses and never supported his privatization plan. So, you're part of the problem, rs.
SeeK ProFFesional Help !
Bwahahahahahaha
Good one.
And these are the ones calling Tancredo a lunatic!
Please the Catholic Bishops are not thumbing their nose at the law. Hispanics are a large share of the Evanglical community. THey are ministering and providing for them too.
Sometimes I feel the America is in mortal danger from Tancredo. At least the Republican party.
Once again you end their whining. Great job.
"amnesty"
The President is not supporting amanesty. People can scream amnesty all they want. Thats not what is happening.
You didn't really expect an answer to that very rational question did you?
You're a quick study. Did Dane whisper the answers to you?
Well even I can get one right now and again. LOL
I sure wish I would see a realistic answer to it but I would experience some shock and awe if it was actually answered.
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