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.
Nobody is underminining any laws. But, Pope Benedict is not going to overrule the American Catholic bishops on a local issue.
But only for jobs we were too uppity to do. I just wonder what the heck those jobs are?
Why should Catholic clergymen have the right to arrogantly undermine and destroy the laws of this nation? Shouldn't they run for the legislature if their vanity and thirst for temporal power tends that direction?
Which Catholic clergymen are destroying the laws of the nation?
Thanks for your marvelous defense of my wonderful
congressman!!
They are taking the place of the 120 million people not born since RvW.
You're right, of course, but prepare to have your butt kicked, nonetheless.
Oh, so conservatives are now "bigots, racists and White Supremists".
Calling people racists is the last ditch tactic of leftists who know they can't support logically their own argument.
Some say this nation was truly energized on the backs of cotton picking slaves...at a time when that type of worker was in extremely high demand.
I mentioned the Industrial Revolution in terms of it being the vehicle to create wealth. Personal wealth.
As the Anchoress stated in her piece "The Essential Bush", there are much bigger things going on than we know. You have to trust the President.
I do recognize Tancredo as a necessary evil for balance. Nothing else.
Some of the same jobs my husband did years ago. When he was a teenager, he made more money picking peaches than his father was making in the Coast Guard. Peaches are much cheaper now.
Thank you for electing him. And re-electing him.
You're in his district. He made some sort of pledge to you about term limits. Is that a factor in you and your neighbors casting your votes for him or was his explanation sufficient for you?
I've seen the Tancredo TrashersTM bring the term limits thing up over and over again but they've never once asked someone living in Tancredo's district how THEY feel about it.
That's okay. I'm feeling frisky tonight...but I'll be good.
Is that your best shot? What a laugh.
You are absolutely unbelivable.
I was just wondering where you got the absurdly high number of 120 million. Please let me see a source, If I am wrong forgive me.
Oh ok, I'm glad to hear you agree with Tom Tancredo.
Firstly, I would not refer to sniveling idiots as "moderates". Secondly, I'd work hard for him if he ran for president.
Tancredo's spiel contains a not so subtle appeal to racists, bigots and white supremacists everywhere.
New tag line.
And you think those illegal invaders are going to vote Republican?
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