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.
Dane, do you ever get tired of the same thing on every thread where you see the name Tancredo?
I swear man it is like you have been hypnotized and left with a marker that makes you snap off about Teachers and basement theaters.
Please Dane, get some new material. Please?
LOL! He can either have savage(weiner) or "Bush is the anti-christ" chucky baldwin as his running mate.
Yeah that's the ticket to the Presidency.
Typical replies from the typical types. I love the man. How refreshing to hear the truth, as hard as the truth is. He's been telling it like it is for a long time now....all the while having a 100 percent conservative rating.
TANCREDO FOR PRESIDENT before it's too late for America!!
Drink much?
I can see that those who hate God,morals,values,American sovernty,and just the plain old preservation of America have already shown up on this thread. They must be in hair trigger mode tonight.
TANCREDO FOR 08!
Go Tancredo! Personally, I like the fact that he says it like it is. No Sugar-coating. Besides, he is correct. We are a lazy society who is getting addicted to "slavery-light". We will pay, big time.....
Typical DU reply.
I don't recall you being so hysterical.
Yes, folks. We are rapidly becoming like Soddom and Gommorrah. All the great empires followed their exact path. And each one said, oh no, we will not fall into that pit. But as the saying goes, "Pride Goeth Before A Fall"...
It's that 100% conservative rating causing all the fuss. To be a good RINO team player it needs to be around 60% or less and as you can see Tancredo doesn't qualify.
Don't know his history that well, but did Ronald Regan ever "work in a wealth producing endeeavor"?
Before the end, all that can be shaken will be shaken. The destroyer will destroy until all that can be, is destroyed. All who can be deceived will be deceived. Men will cry out and curse God in the pain of their destruction. Everything that lifts itself against Jesus who is the Word of God, will be brought down. All that is of the pride and loftiness of man shall fall. Only the kingdom of God cannot be shaken and will not be destroyed. The goal of God is that wickedness perish and the sons of God be purified to rule and reign with Him on earth.
Give it up, Mr. Mexico. Your heroes the Kennedys have never earned an honest dollar, but are determined to destroy this nation.
Uh the motion picture industry and was also a spokesman for General Electric.
You and Dane should go out for a drink. You might smarten up then.
I love the way you open borders types invoke Michael Savage rather than debate the issues, as though that ends the debate. Never mind that people like Laura Ingrham, Michael Reagan, and even moderates like Newt Gingrich and Hugh Hewitt all agree on one thing: build a fence, control the borders, and start enforcing the current employment laws first. Once that is done we can look at how large a labor force we need, and how many immigrants we can resonably assimilate. Somehow I think Ronald Reagan would have agreed with that much more that letting 120 million immigrants flood the country in the next 20 years.
Yup
"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. "
If you can't understand that then the church has failed you spiritualy.
Pat Buchanan foretold and warned us of the immigration mess years ago, and we all castigated him. Yet, he was right then; and, Tom Tancredo is right now.
What has that got to do with his views on this?
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