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.
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So Dane what exactly did Tancredo do that was wrong?
Are you saying he should have hired a company that had only white men working for it?
Should he have checked every person's ID?
Based on the fact they looked hispanic?
What exactly do you want Dane?
Please Dane explain to me what Tancredo did that has made you follow the very mention of his name and spout this same foolishness over and over and over?
Nope. I also have his term limit pledge lie and gun grab after Columbine.
If a conservative is creating "hell" as you put it, for republicans then maybe it is time to take a good hard look at the republicans that are having such a tough time with Tancredo's positions and why that is taken as a hard time.
Here is a thread on another site that discuses how Tancredo is being trashed. He is a threat to the mainstream in government.
http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?t=198316
You claim that Tancredo did something wrong with regards to his basement. In the very source you asked for a retraction I showed you where it says itself he didn't do anything wrong.
You simp[ly dismiss that and STILL claim he did something wrong. and then say this term limit thing. I am unfamiliar with that and will research it.
You asked for a retraction. I gave you an article from yourown source that says he did nothing wrong. How about finishing that subject up first? Please explain what it is Tancredo did wrong in regards to his basement. I would love to hear your explanation and the remedy to it or the alternative he could have taken when he hired this drywall company.
Lets hear it. OR Admit you have bluster and not facts on this issue. Then we can go to the term limits issue.
False. See my post.
Someone said it was refuted, I asked where. Still waiting.
I gave you an article from yourown source that says he did nothing wrong.
False, again.
"Tancredo's positions " Really is it positions or position. It seems that its one position and that this immigration issue. If Tancredo wants to be involved in races of sitting Congressional Republicans outside his state go ahead. But he needs to resign to do it.
Bravo! I hope Bill Cosby endorses him for president.
From what I can see Tancredo wanted some change regarding term limits and it looks to me like he could not get support for it.
What will you have him do? Walk away while the rest stay?
HE changed his mind and gave fair reasoning for it IMHO. Hardly a lie. Now, had term limits gained majority or close to it support you might have a point. Can you demonstrate where that position gained majority or close to it support?
False again. You're 3-3.
He said he would limit his term...he did not.
A retraction was asked for. Denver post was cited and I offered an article from that source that says Tancredo didn't do anything wrong.
That is not what you asked for?
"The company's president said he believed all of his workers were in the country legally and that he had documentation from them on file."
"I hired a reputable company, I did not hire the labor,"
"Tancredo didn't break any laws, according to immigration lawyers briefed on the case. He never asked whether the workers - only two of whom spoke English - were in the country legally, said Eric Givan, project manager for the company."
What am I missing? Please explain it to me.
Who is your congressman ?I've known Tom for twenty years.
I trust him. Do you trust yours?
Tancredo must resign from Congress to speak his mind about other Congresscritters? Where is that written? LMAO.
Thanks for posting Tancredo's ratings. They're top notch. Unfortunately the puppets aren't listening.
You forget the REST% of that claim. He wanted to see others join in and that didn't happen. Care to back up your claim that is not why he changed position?
"In a telephone interview, Tancredo said he and other members of Congress who took the term-limit pledge were hoping to spark a revolution and get 50 others to sign, but it did not catch on as expected."
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/1686852/detail.html
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