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.
No more conservative SCOTUS judges to save us from or national moral decline.
We should all say a prayer for our nation. We had it's best interest at heart.
Even the feds ain't supposed to be giving 'em food or clothing. However, if your argument from the outset was that a private organization, like the Catholic Church, could do so then I would've agreed with you.
You make it sound like it is the responsbility of all Americans to provide the illegal aliens with such things when it isn't. And from my understanding that doesn't appply to Jose Americana. If Jose, who isn't a private organization BTW, aids an illegal by giving him food/clothing/shelter/whatever then he IS in violation of aiding and abetting...PERIOD! It's what the law says!
What is sad is that the government is breaking the laws they themselves wrote. All sorts of public funds are being used by illegals and it isn't going to stop!
Blows your housing argument right out of the water.
They ARE that clear and I don't know why it has to be added, now. Perhaps it's an added a poke in the eye, to those breaking the law?
I am not a catholic..rather an Evangelical but the social conservative side of me is crying foul to my Entrepreneurial spirit. I like a good dollar as much as the next guy but some things trump the dollar, like the spread of Christianity around the world.
Do I think that incorporating some Mexicans into our society will bring the fall of America? Well now, that's a stretch.
"majority of his career has been on the public payroll."
And I, for one, am grateful. Too many Republicans play at politics for a few years, then wimp out and withdraw into private life. They cover this in virtue by saying their kids, or God, or money, or some damned thing, is more important.
The Founding Fathers didn't think so. They believed in sacrificing for posterity. I'm glad Tancredo has dedicated himself to public life. He is worth far more than some self-absorbed businessman who is a wonderful husband and father and doesn't do crap for his country. OK, so he provides jobs and doesn't cost the taxpayers anything. Chances are he's also too cowardly, too scared of losing a few customers, to stand up and be counted on a controversial issue like immigration.
As for "doom and gloom" -- Tancredo is telling us things we don't want to hear, but a real man can take it and decide where to go from their. Only cowards and children stick their heads in the sand.
In short, your comment is an embarrassment and shows a profound misunderstanding of virtue.
In short -- Put a sock in it.
Do I think that incorporating some Mexicans into our society will bring the fall of America? Well now, that's a stretch.
That's not a stretch, that's your opinion. It's the opinion of others that such a thing will and is happening. You'll pardon me if I stand over there with the others.
Get into the globe..it's round and it's not going away.
Terrorists get it. Why can't Americans?
I am going to read these court cases on harboring. THe devil is in the details as they say but they do appear troubling
Oh, please. Tancredo is ten times more aligned with Reagan than Dubya could ever HOPE to be. Reagan spoke of hope and then put his conservative values into action. Both the Bushes were INFINITELY better than Clinton/Gore/Kerry/insert-liberal-slime-of-choice-here, but there can be zero credible argument that the country hasn't grown far far far more liberal since Reagan left office. Even with Republicans in charge, the most we can realistically hope for is a slowing in the GROWTH of liberalism and its incestuous cousin, political correctness.
Tancredo is absolutely right: We Americans--and I'm guilty of it--like to puff our chests out and consider ourselves invincible, but we're also forgetting the fact that we're not that old as a society, forgetting the fact that moral decay will INEVITABLY lead to collapse. The moral fabric of our country is unraveling like a cheap suit, and our society will not withstand it if it's not stopped.
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Terrorists are crossing the borders, there is no doubt that this is the flame that has brought this whole immigration issue to light after all these decades.
If we can limit immigration without casing enemies of other Christians it is in the best interest of America and the world.
The terrorists won't be happy if we pull it off but then again their happiness is not really my concern.
sorry, legalizing illegal aliens, is amnesty. No matter how you look at it.
Its not amnesty. Its a guilty plea with a plea deal. Restition, fines , condition, and probation. Its not a a full Pardon
The spread of Christianity is not limited to just America last time I checked my Bible.
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