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.
Did you get that employee thru a contractor or word of mouth or something like that?
In addition what made you ask the question? Looks? Language?
The point of that post was to show that Tancredo was in politics when he hired the company that used illegals.
Right on!
I'm not trashing Tancredo. I'm pointing out that he hired a contractor which used illegals. Something a lot of people have done. Knowingly or unknowingly.
But keep missing the point so you can lie about what's going on here.
Why do you state that one of the most conservative Congressmen is a "mortal danger"?"
Troll
Which employee? The builder?
We got the builder because he won building awards in our area. We were here every single day for 7 mos. and the contractors he used and all the workers were white guys and southern rednecks.
The lawn guy we got because it's who all our neighbors use and all the workers are American blacks.
#1 Where do you see that Tancredo suspected them of being illegal?
#2 Sanctuary cities prohibit asking status. It would occur to me that he would have been aware of this.
#3, Had he asked he would have been shown ID that made the employer think these were legal workers.
Above reproach? Hardly. I oppose the same rail on every thread of the same content. Heck even by the same posters.
As for the term limits, there is a point to be made about that, there is also the explanation that some were trying to get a movement going and it failed. Both points can be taken to consider context in order to make a judgement about it.
I chose to back that conservative while some chose to slam him like he is akin to pelosi or Reid. When in the end he is working for the rule of law that I would think you would support.
How was he to know they used illegals when the employer thought they were legal?
That, of course, would raise legitimate suspicions. And when I have assisted in the hiring of employees, I did nothing but make photocopies of the required documents and put them in my file. During the quarterly tax returns (i.e., every March, June, September, and December) were the only times I sent in the Social Security Numbers to the government. So, if I ever hired an illegal, I wouldn't have known until over three months from the date of hire, unless, of course, I knew they were at the time of hire or by someone else informing me of that fact in the interim.
I haven't said I don't support Tancredo. What I've said can be clearly read on this thread, so don't put words in my mouth.
We are both repeating each other. I shall just point to my posts about this matter and let the rest of you carry on defending him as above reproach in the hiring of illegals all while you condemn freepers who may suspect someone is illegal but follows the same law Tancredo did - that it's illegal to ask.
VERY difficult to understand. The 'establishment' doesn't like him, but I can't figure out exactly why. Could it be his ideas are too good and too pro-American?
There are no statements that Tancredo is beyond reproach, except in your statement. As for the rest, the facts speaks for themselves.
anything less than deportation will end up being amnesty
I love finding that in my leaders. Which, I think, is why I was disappointed with my leadership in the National Guard when I joined up.
Besides, he is correct. We are a lazy society who is getting addicted to "slavery-light".
Indeed we are. Just take a look at today's 'work ethic'. (Now, admittedly the US demands the most hours out of it's people, and has the least amount of vacation-days of the industrialized world. But I blame that to the "work to time" and not "work to job" standard.)
We will pay, big time.....
Yep. I pessimistically think it may be too late to get out of this whole mess bloodlessly... on the other hand, I optimistically hope Congress will do the right thing.
So Christians are not suppose to minister to the aliens in their midst?"
Sure. Feed them and give them a lift to the border.
Defending Tancredo from such tactics as some employ like saying he is only in this to gain money for a PAC is hardly making the claim he is above reproach.
That is a bit of a stretch don't you think?
Agreed.
LOL. You really should stop posting now because you're not making ANY sense in that last post. I have NO clue what you're talking about.
Good night.
I've been thinking that for years, especially in regards to the military. There is a kind of "we're the best there is, no-one can beat us." mentality that exists kind-of under the surface there now... I just wish that people would realize that incidents like what happened in Blackhawk Down are the natural result of it.
Peach why is it you say that I (or some) think Tancredo is above reproach?
Maybe the answer to that question would clear things up.
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