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.
SO true;;
Tancredo, Buchanan, Coulter, and Malkins speaking engagements are ALWAYS disrupted by leftists.. Moonbat leftists.. Wonder if Sinkspur and Dane were in the crowd.. They seem to be in the same lobby..
Fair point. Jesse Ventura had it right. Churches of all faiths should be paying taxes in part because they do participate in politics.
I did. No Catholic bishop went to jail, did he? Should a few have? Sure.
But, in the area of ministering to illegals, even Sensenbrenner was falling all over himself to reassure the Catholic hierarchy that HR 4437 would not, in any way, force clergy to have to turn illegals over to ICE.
If you have a problem with that, take it up with him.
"Arresting clergy is never a good thing for public relations.
Are you SURE you're not a paid RNC operative? Or on Ambien?
Well lets just have a go at that and just see eh? Churches are not beyond reproach and they are hardly above the law.
How is the Catholic Church forcing their views on you or anyone. They re not there in the voting booth with you
What makes you think it would happen in that order?
Like President Bush has never done or said anything dumb. Gimme a break. Yet, he was elected President and, aside from his awful record on immigration reform and border security, he has been a fine President at that.
And what of Ronald Reagan's "the bombing begins in 5 minutes" remark? Dumb? It scared the living heck out of the Soviets.
Hell, it is time that the jihadists fear America. That's all they understand. If Tom Tancredo was somehow elected President, that comment would have them afraid that he might have actually ment that he planned to bomb Mecca if they nuked one of our cities and vaporized millions of Americans. Good! I want them to fear utter annihilation as they result of any further attacks on America. Tell me, what do you think a proper response would be if a group of nationless jihadists who pray to Mecca and make their Hajj there nuked America and vaporized a million Americans? Is it the best plan to nuke Mecca? Would it be appropriate to announce it as policy? No. Should it be discussed as a potential target in the case of specific events? Yes. Considering all targets as a response to a nuclear attack is appropriate. We used to consider Mutual Assured Destruction - the annihilation of millions of people and possibly the end of the entire freakin' world - as an appropriate response to a nuclear attack. Is Mecca so special that it deserves protection and should never even be discussed in that matter or considered at a potential target? I'd love to hear your answer to that question.
No we represent that odd political view that clergy should not arrested because they voice a view some dont like.
You know, I think you're an asshole. I don't think you've done anything with your life but bitch and moan. There, I feel better.
It is the U.S. Catholic church's stance of must be benevolent to the illegal aliens. Now, I know Catholics, of which one half of my family is, will try to make this into an attack on the Church, but it isn't. It is an attack on the liberal, humanist, verging on liberation theology arm of the church that says you must be charitable to these poor people, regardless if they broke the law by illegally entering our country, or that they are draining our welfare, education, and medical coffers to the detriment of the rest of our society.
The socially liberal Catholics are putting the emphasis on the poor "victim", but have identified the wrong "victim". They think it is the collective illegals, when it really is the whole of our society that suffers from broken borders and illegal acts.
The Catholic church should butt out here. It smells of the same activism it practiced years ago when the Sandinista's were at work down in South America, and all of the activist nuns were running around there helping the socialistic cause. It's my biggest problem with the Catholic church. It has become a source of social activism, rather than spiritual activism. The liberal part of the Church, that is. Hopefully the pre-Vatican II mentality will make greater inroads into the Catholic church, and purge it from these liberal activist elements, such as the U.S. Catholic Bishops Council, which is primarily a socialistic organ of the Church.
I would be more than happy to take it up with anyone that wishes to do so.
If you argue against my point you are putting the church above the law. If you or anyone else wishes to argue that point so be it. At least have the honesty to frame it in a truthful light.
If you argue the point the way you are it is clear that you will put the church above the law and there is no way around that. Care to simply admit that you put the church above the law? My guess is you do not have the guts to frame it in that truthful light...DO Ya?
I have no doubt that some group would like to bomb the vatican. However why do we want to become like them.
Whenever I read one of your post all I see is "I got mine jack".
Bread and Circuses
Glenn is uncouth. It appears he's full of his name.
Some may think so, but if an option to destroy those sites convinced more moderate Muslims to police their own and work to prevent such a nuclear detonation in the US, I say it's worth the utterance, the attack as a response option. We hold that option open for any OTHER enemy who would attempt to destroy us.
The really DUMB move would be to give the Muslim world or any other potential enemy any impression we'd remain complacent right up to a critical blast.
If he were asked if the Chinese bombed the US with a nuclear device, what city would you think would come up as a response target? I'll give you a hint - it has 11-12 million souls in it and is in Northern China.
One key part of deterrance is demonstrating the willpower to use the weapons at one's disposal.
This doesnt have anything to do with liberation theolgy. This viewpoint is very pre vatican II.
I would love to hear that answer as well!
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