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.
Oh, for heaven's sake! If those Catholics want to practice their "traditional values" (whatever those are), they are free to practice them.
What the traditionalists don't like is the Church's reaching out to Protestants, and stating that one does not necessarily have to be a visible member of the Catholic Church to attain salvation.
Oh, and that Latin-in-the-liturgy, which should be provided for those who want it, but not forced down the throat of those who don't.
LOL oh I see now your the second person that commented on it. Well I guess you could call this a house but its a pretty much a small apt in a duplex right now. So no I dont own this house or have one in that sense
I'm fine here.
Please drop the "Papsits" crap. It really has no relevence. Good Catholics believe in following the laws of the land. And, that means entering a country leagaly.
You can't blame the Mexicans coming here. I don't. Would you stay in Mexico under the current circumstances? Any poor Mexican with half a brain knows it's a better gamble than NASDAQ.
This whole catastrophe did not happen by accident, but by design. Bush could have secured the borders when he took office, but he chose not to. He instead allowed the situation to become the crisis that it is. Now, he's saying, "Oh, my! The cow is already out of the barn. I guess, it's too late to close the door."
Now his buddies has cheap labor and their country club dues are held lower. (I did some work at a country club where they packed a bunch of illegals in a small farm house to take care of the landscaping.)
Bush really played Conservatives for suckers. It's not your father's Republican Party anymore.
Please drop the "Papsits" crap. It really has no relevence. Good Catholics believe in following the laws of the land. And, that means entering a country leagaly.
You can't blame the Mexicans coming here. I don't. Would you stay in Mexico under the current circumstances? Any poor Mexican with half a brain knows it's a better gamble than NASDAQ.
This whole catastrophe did not happen by accident, but by design. Bush could have secured the borders when he took office, but he chose not to. He instead allowed the situation to become the crisis that it is. Now, he's saying, "Oh, my! The cow is already out of the barn. I guess, it's too late to close the door."
Now his buddies has cheap labor and their country club dues are held lower. (I did some work at a country club where they packed a bunch of illegals in a small farm house to take care of the landscaping.)
Bush really played Conservatives for suckers. It's not your father's Republican Party anymore.
the USA will be viable for generations to come as a result of these immigrants.
And it's not a given they will all register democrat.
My father was a United Auto Union member...a democrat.
I and three out of five children are GOP conservatives.
Nobody has even tried to, since Ike and that was just a stopgap. So why is it President Bush's fault and nobody else's?
That looks like assists to me and that is current law...
Shall we dicker over "comforts or assists" now?
You are a social liberal.
"Giving food and drink or clothing to an illegal alien is not a crime.
Fine, show me where in the law it says that...chapter and verse.
Prove what you claim. If you can prove it I'll apologize profusely and learn something in the process."
By the way, I have no idea how to put stuff in italics here on FR so if anyone can aid me freep mail me it all becomes a jumbled mess quick but any way
Isnt that the whole purpose of putting the word "assist"
in the law. Thatis what I am talking about doesnt fit uner the current law and thus making those acts illegal
I think that it's about time that I start quoting from the KNOW NOTHINGS, without saying so and see how many takers I get. :-)
Pathetic how that't the best thing you got on Tancredo? And you have mindlessly posted it how many times?
Amen to that!
this is the key
"prevent his apprehension, trial or punishment, is an accessory after the fact."
Walker's Point, is the name of a HOUSE, now owned by ex-President George Herbert Walker Bush. It was built by one of his ancestors, who actually did have a job and was NOT a politician.
Facts matter........try to learn some before you shoot off your mouth again. ;^)
lol
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