Posted on 08/29/2005 11:45:54 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Published on Monday, August 29, 2005, in the Tracy Press. WASHINGTON — On Aug. 12, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency "due to a chaotic situation involving illegal alien smuggling and illegal drug shipments" on his southern border. Three days later, Gov. Janet Napolitano followed suit in Arizona.
Reason: the crisis on the border. The ally-ally-in-free immigration policy of George Bush and Vicente Fox, beloved of corporate America, has created a hell on our southern border.
Those Southwestern states are being inundated by illegal aliens trashing ranches, killing cattle, committing crimes and eating up tax dollars. The traffic in narcotics and human beings from Mexico is a national scandal and a human rights disgrace.
What is true of New Mexico and Arizona is true of our nation, which is home to an estimated 10 million to 15 million aliens who have broken our laws and broken into our country. It is a mark of the cowardice of our leaders that they are so terrified of being called "bigots" that they tolerate this criminality. The moral rot of political correctness runs deep today in both national parties.
A president like Teddy Roosevelt would have led the Army to the border years ago. And if Fox did not cooperate, T.R. would have gone on to Mexico City. Nor would Ike, who deported all illegal aliens in 1953, have stood still for this being done to the country he had defended in war.
What are these Bush Republicans afraid of? Dirty looks from the help at the country club?
The question of whether America is going to remain one nation, or whether our Southwest will wind up as a giant Kosovo separated by language and loyalty from the rest of America is on the table.
Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska. His legislative agenda for the fall includes a blanket amnesty for illegals, so they can be exploited by businesses who want to hold wages down as they dump the social costs for their employees health care, schools, courts, cops, prisons onto taxpayers.
Not only have Richardson and Napolitano awakened — they are on the front lines — so, too, has Hillary Clinton, who has spoken out against illegal immigration with a forthrightness that makes Bush sound like a talking head for La Raza.
Why is a Republican Congress permitting this president to persist in the dereliction of his sworn duty?
Bush is chief executive of the United States. It is his duty to enforce the laws. Can anyone fairly say he is enforcing the immigration laws? Those laws are clear. People who break in are to be sent back. Yet, more than 10 million have broken in with impunity.
Another million try to break in every year. Half a million succeed. Border security is homeland security. How, then, can the Department of Homeland Security say America is secure?
Who can guarantee that, of the untold millions of illegals here, and the scores of thousands ordered deported for crimes who have disappeared into our midst, none is a terrorist waiting for orders to blow up a subway or mall and massacre American citizens?
Most of these illegals come to work to send money back to their families. They are not bad people. But because they are predominantly young and male, they commit a disproportionate share of violent crimes.
Why should U.S. citizens be assaulted, robbed, raped and murdered, and have their children molested, because their government will not enforce its own laws?
Is this not an indictment of democracy itself? What dictatorial regime would put up with this?
The Republican Party claims to be a conservative party. But what kind of conservative is it who, to cut a few costs or make a few bucks, will turn his family's home into a neighborhood flop house?
In a recent poll, 40 percent of Mexicans " 40 million people said they would like to come to the United States, and 20 percent expressed a willingness to break in. Time to cut the babble about how NAFTA is going to solve the problem. This is a national emergency.
Twice, Bush has taken an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." Article IV, Section 4 of that Constitution reads," The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion."
Well, we are being invaded, and the president of the United States is not doing his duty to protect the states against that invasion.
Some courageous Republican, to get the attention of this White House, should drop into the hopper a bill of impeachment, charging Bush with a conscious refusal to uphold his oath and defend the states of the Union against "invasion."
It may be the only way left to get his attention, before the border vanishes and our beloved country dissolves into MexAmerica, what T.R. called a "polyglot boarding house for the world."
So what part of "I strongly disagree with the President's policies on the border" didn't you understand?
We are not talking about the mere politics of supporting or opposing Bush's (wrongheaded) policies on immigration. We are talking about calling for the impeachment of the President of the United States during a time of war, with the full knowledge of what the liberal media will do with such a declaration. Buchanan apparently simply doesn't care, as long as he gets the media attention he craves.
Good luck trying to brand me as a RINO, though. (I got a good laugh out of that one.)
So what part of "I strongly disagree with the President's policies on the border" didn't you understand?
We are not talking about the mere politics of supporting or opposing Bush's (wrongheaded) policies on immigration. We are talking about calling for the impeachment of the President of the United States during a time of war, with the full knowledge of what the liberal media will do with such a declaration. Buchanan apparently simply doesn't care, as long as he gets the media attention he craves.
Good luck trying to brand me as a RINO, though. (I got a good laugh out of that one.)
"But Buchananites found out that by voting for the lesser of two evils in the last election, they got evil."
I think it was more the choice between "Dumb and dumber", with the public choosing the lesser of two idiots cause they'd figure he'd do less damage. Which is the really sad state of politics these days. When both candidates are considered worthless. We'll just have to hope some common sense is shown in 2008, assuming Bush doesn't botch things up enough to get the House and/or Senate turned over to Dem control, or we get nuked by a terrorist. So far the only Republican of any real worth that I could see as the next President would be US Rep. Duncan Hunter. With Tom Tancredo put in charge of Homeland Security.
What is it with you Buchananites? Have you even read what I said about the President's policies on illegal immigration?
Buchanan's idiotic comments on impeaching the president are what I'm talking about. Can't you understand that? He's nothing more than a media whore, perfectly willing to say outrageous things (whether it be about WWII or impeaching Bush) in exchange for media coverage. Apparently, he's got a fair amount of people on FR who are just willing to nod in agreement with everything he says.
I used to like Pat Buchanan but have to say now that he talks like someone that is 4 cents short of a dime.
"We are talking about calling for the impeachment of the President of the United States during a time of war, with the full knowledge of what the liberal media will do with such a declaration."
They won't do squat with such a declaration because they were hand-in-hand with the RINO Repub leadership in making sure than Buchanan was as thouroughly demonized as possible. Bush's own stupidity will damage him more than anything Pat could possibly do.
"Buchanan apparently simply doesn't care, as long as he gets the media attention he craves."
The only thing Buchanan craves is saving this nation from the idiotic stupidity of free trade and open borders policies.
..and we opened the floodgates that held back the Third World. 10 million illegal aliens?
Bingo! That is exactly where a person should start to "Google", to begin to find the origins of the mess we are in. The Immigration Act of 1965 needs to be amended. Severely.
before that. They actually use the 13 colony circle as a symbol to signify that too.
If you look at posts 155, 157 and 161, you'll see that I strongly disagree with the President's policies on Illegal Immigration.
I brought up Pat's comments on WWII in response to a post in which the writer indicated that the Buchananites voted for Bush as the lesser of two evils and found that they'd voted for evil, or something to that effect.
Yeah. PJB's leading the group off the cliff.
Bush, on the other hand, is leading the BushBots by the nose--and turning the Southwest into Mexifornia.
PS: How's your nose feel?
"This issue is not going to split or weaken the Rep vote. Is the thinking that if one does not agree with the President on certain issues, the next logical step is to remove all support?!!?"
When you see him slowly transforming into a Democrat, what's the point of continuing to support him? I'll leave my support, and hopes, for a true conservative like Duncan Hunter in 2008.
I think calling for Bush's impeachment over the immigration issue is a great idea, and the best I have heard so far for getting his attention. He can either deal with the problem, or he can get the heck out of the way. Hopefully, whomever replaces him will take the problem seriously, even if its just to avoid the same fate.
If Bush gets his amnesty thing, there's no way I will support the republican party during an election. I only voted for Bush this last time because I figure he was the lesser of two evils. I'm not going that route anymore.
I don't see much difference between the republican and democratic parties. They both lie through thier teeth to get elected and then its four more years of the same old crap of the pot calling the kettle black.
Both parties foster corruption and deceit, and if either had any integrity whatsoever, they would expose the corruption in thier own parties and dealings rather than wait for the opposing party to do it for them.
I don't give a darn what the liberal media does, if Bush wants to keep his job, he better get to work, war-time or not.
Once again Pat hits a home run. You cannot defend Bush on the border issue, the most IMPORTANT issue facing this country. The border, a push for a north American alliance with Mexico and Canada, uncontrolled spending, and a questionable war. But we did get a paltry tax cut!
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