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.
LOL, I know its my downfall at times. Even though I did try to point out numerous times the Southern Baptist Church through its headquarters and statements basically said we need something like the Senate bill-pay a fine pay taxes , learn english and make them citizens. Well no one wanted to discuss that. Everytime I bring up what Evanglicals are saying on this topic its likes oh no nothing to see lets move on here.
We are together here. If there was ever a time that Christians should unite it is now.
The Democrats know exactly what they are doing pushing legalization for millions of illegals. It wound up paying big dividends at the ballot box after the '86 Immigration Reform Act and it will pay even more dividends for them after Bush signs signs this Amnesty into law.
You obviously KNOW NOTHING about the American Party or you wouldn't keep using this as if it was an epithet of some sort.
THAT is NOT current immigration LAW, it's a BILL - a proposal. As of today, it is STILL illegal to assist anyone who is known too be in this country illegally. IF the law were enforced, those clergy WOULD be fined or in jail if convicted or if they made the same confessions under oath.
Really. A guilty plea, you say? What judge? What court? Funny how this guilty plea/plea deal thing is only sweetened by how long the criminal has been committing the crime, not like in a real plea deal where the length of time the crime has been committed serves to make the sentence worse.
Full pardon? So, now you're redefining amnesty to suit your needs just like President Bush and John McCain have tried to do. Amnesty is amnesty no matter how much lipstick you paint onto that pig.
The vast majority of his career has been on the public payroll.
I know a guy that has been on the goverment payroll since high school.
30 years in fact next month. We talked about getting on the goverment payroll in high school.
So, He is a Gunney (E-9) and I only did 28 1/2. (Army then Airforce).
I would stack up some one on goverment payroll who makes a difference to any one on the outside.
And the inhabitants of Kennebunkport are upbeat and optimistic about America's future
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!
Teddy, who keeps his money off shore to keep from paying taxes (not that there si anything wrong with that), keeps preaching doom and gloom, espeically since GWB came to town.
Yea I bet Nelson Rockefeller is turn over in his grave. Nothing wrong with public as long as it is a legitimate service and honest work. I had some good teachers. One of them for example despised FDR and LBJ :>} That being said I trust Tancredo's judgment far more than the current GOP leadership including Senate Majority Leader and POTUS :>} He's one Republican I could vote for POTUS in 2008 but I'm certain the RNC and the corrupt to the core Rockefeller GOP will verbod it they being the ruling elitist they are.
Oh no.
Not another one of these backwards logic arguments.
OK, by your reasoning, men can't decide on anything to do with females because they're men.
Oh, and no one can make decisions for the public school system unless they are teachers.
Of course, no one can decide anything for the US military unless you've been a soldier.
C'mon. Tancredo is correct.
For six years, I have loved and respected President Bush as a man of integrity and resolve.
But this immigration defacto amnesty proposal is suicide for America. There is no way we can absorb 100 million or more leftist unskilled 'no inglais' desparado's over the next 20 years and still maintain control
Just look at the massive protests on the streets of this country several weeks ago, and multiply that by 10 .... OR MORE.
A Harry Reid and Dick Durbin one too.
I doubt that will ever happen.
with American citizenship at the end of the tunnel. NO. They broke the law. Start treating illegal aliens as if their home country would treat us. DEPORT THEM.
Let me ask this: many aliens come into the US to work for wages far below the going rates. Correct? They come because, for example in Mexico, the exchange rate of USD to Peso is about 1:11 and that will afford a LOT in their home country. Truthfully, I cannot fault them for that. Some will fry me for using Mexico as an example, but any country will do whose exchange rate is below the dollar. Employers and those hiring day laborers cede illegals will work for low wages and do a good job for the price. Right? They will do "jobs Americans will not do" and oft times for a wage many Americans simply can't or won't. The business engine is oiled by profit and those running the engines need fuel without regard to where it comes from. They want cheap labor.
Now, my pointed question is this: Are we oppressing the alien by apprehension, detention, and deportation or is there a more worse oppression occurring because the aliens' positions of illegality are being exploited for a profit?
You answer, but as for me, I'd as soon see the money-changers incarcerated or thrown out as well.
I guess there's no accounting for taste.
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"It was built by one of his ancestors, who actually did have a job and was NOT a politician."
That would have been a hundred years ago.
"Facts matter........try to learn some before you shoot off your mouth again. ;^)"
I will "shoot my mouth off" whenever I'm confronted with elitists like yourself.
"I am so irritated by the incessant "Tom Tancredo" posts on this site that I will do everything I can to make sure he never gets elected to anything again."
Thanks! Your post prompted me to send the Honorable Tom Tancredo another chunk of money.
You are completely dishonest in both posts 80 & 74. What brought you to FR?
Funny to see the crowd you're posting with.
Way to bust out the Race Card, PelGrant.
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