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.
That's Lurker's rant. I just copied him...
They vote. Start locking up our bishops, and you'll be up the creek, buster.
People like him?
Jeez are you listening to what you are saying. Yeah I do remember a time when people like him(ministers) were really shown their place. The civil rights movement LEts go back to the good ole days of Churches blowing up.
Oh Good Grief ... he's a nutcase
If he was a "loose cannon" then his votes would be all over the map. Instead, as evidenced by his 100% ratings from many conservative groups, his votes are solidly conservative.
Lightweight? He founded and chairs a powerful caucus which enjoys membership by the most conservative one third of Republicans in Congress. The pressure that his leadership has applied to the President in part caused him to address the immigration reform/border security issue in an unprecedented Oval Office speech last Monday evening and has caused the President to capitulate and send troops to the border.
I suppose you were out on the street for your "May Day" celebrations, too.
Do you realize that non catholic conservative churches are saying the same thing as the Catholics. Evanglicals and others spent a lot of time converting Catholics to their faith. You going to find that you just cant go tell them to shut up.
Whigs. Republicans. I guess I can understand your fear and where your priorities are.
I loved "Death Valley Days". I remember when Reagan replaced the "Old Ranger". Does anyone know if there is a DVD collection available?
I was working. I don't do demonstrations or protests, of any kind.
LOL! Sorry about touching a nerve there. You must be one of the six people who paid full price for pat buchanan's last book.
Time for them to lose their 501c status if they are participating in politics as you are.
How much is a dispensation this year?
I forgot "perfect" - since I'm dirt poor and always have been, I don't have all those good characteristics!
Well sinspur another allusion to us being commies.
You'll have to get the law changed. Churches can advocate on issues, but cannot recommend candidates.
See the difference?
Pass the popcorn on that one
They try that and it will finish the 3rd party for good
True he is NOT a wimpy political coward like George Bush and the other RINOS..
"He's almost the perfect candidate, and people blast him. Then, there's Bush, in all of the F ups he has made as supposedly a conservative and they follow him like Bushbots. I don't get it."
I do. And so do you, as you said it plain and clear, they are Bushbots. That answers it all. They are Johnny one-note Bush zombies with no minds of their own other than what the Prez implants in them. They complain about one-issue (immigration) Freepers, unable to see that they are one issue Freepers themselves, and their issue is Bush uber alles, regardless of any other subject matter out there. Their issue is Bush's, whatever Bush says or does must be right. They are more one issue than anyone else could ever be, because their only issue is Bush is right. Period. Which thus incorporates all issues that come from Bush's point of view.
Thus, no Bushbot has to actually think, just react. What Bush wants, Bush should get. They are myopic and see no other approaches to a subject other than what Bush says is what they should think. Talking about one issue Freepers, they are perfect examples of it. Isn't it easy not to have to think on your own. And as such they are the perfect RINO's, as they mimic there Prez, who has proven to be a RINO on so many issues. Hope next presidential election we can hire a true conservative and not be snookered again.
whats a obl
The public at large favors the rule of law. When it is explained in that context people are full well ready to accept it.
If you think otherwise then you indeed think that most of this nation places the church above the law. I am sorry you think so lowly of the people of this nation when it comes to the very fabric that makes this nation function.
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