Posted on 08/30/2005 10:34:44 PM PDT by goldstategop
Pat Buchanan, former communications director to President Ronald Reagan, former presidential candidate and WND commentator, has come to the conclusion that a courageous Republican legislator should move a bill for impeachment of President Bush.
I reluctantly agree – and for the same reasons.
President Bush has had nearly six years in office to honor his oath of office and enforce immigration laws in this country.
He has not only failed, he has intentionally neglected this sworn duty, instead claiming he prefers to promote a vague immigration "reform" plan that involved a "guest worker" program that has served as an encouragement to the most massive influx of illegal immigration this country has ever seen.
Some will tell me this can't be done and that it is irresponsible to propose it because Bush is a wartime president.
My response? It is precisely because this nation finds itself in a desperate war declared by a formidable foe determined to use our open borders to destroy this country that we must act now.
Some will remind me I endorsed Bush just two years ago for re-election.
My response? I made it very clear at the time that I was not really endorsing Bush, per se, but seeking the only practical way to defeat his reckless and irresponsible and treasonous opponent. There is no contradiction here. Kerry had to be defeated. Now Bush must go. America can do better.
I don't agree with many of Pat Buchanan's foreign policy ideas. But on the border, he is 100 percent right. Bush has been a disaster. No matter how successful we might be in our campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can lose this war against jihadist Islam right here at home.
Our enemies have already used the open border to penetrate this country – and they will do so again.
When Bush placed the old Immigration and Naturalization Service under the new Department of Homeland Security, I actually believed he recognized how critical border security was to the defense of our homeland. I was fooled.
In the current issue of my premium, online, intelligence newsletter, G2 Bulletin, author Paul Williams recounts in extravagant detail how al-Qaida operatives have already used the open Mexican border not only to sneak operatives into the country but to smuggle in nuclear weapons with the help of the MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha) street gang.
The fuse has been lit.
The war in Iraq, which I have supported, will mean little when, not if, a nuclear weapon is detonated inside our own country.
When that happens, we will no longer be having debates about who has more culpability for Sept. 11 – Bush or his predecessor. Bush has had ample opportunity to address the mistakes of the past. Instead, he has repeated them. They say hindsight is 20-20. Not for Bush.
Even if the border issue and the tsunami of illegal immigration was not strictly speaking the No. 1 national security issue we face, enforcing the laws of the land would be the right thing to do – the only moral and right thing to do.
Americans are dealing with more joblessness, higher crime, skyrocketing taxes, a crippled medical system, overcrowded jails, an overburdened judicial and law enforcement system, costly and divisive language barriers and changing demographics that are permanently transforming the U.S. culture.
Why?
Bush claims it is because America needs cheap labor. That's what the law of supply and demand is all about. It's not his duty or responsibility to acquire workers for big corporations and other fat cats below what the market will support.
I don't even believe Bush is being honest when he makes this argument. I am convinced there are international agreements behind this. I am persuaded the systematic destruction of the American way of life through uncontrolled and illegal immigration is part of a master plan for merger and global consolidation – first with our neighbors in this hemisphere and later worldwide.
This secretive plot must end here and now.
America was founded on the principle of independence and sovereignty. The president is betraying our most sacred national heritage.
Bush is ignoring the will of the people and he is violating the law of the land.
It's time to turn up the heat.
As Buchanan suggested: Will even one courageous Republican member of Congress have the guts to sponsor a bill of impeachment?
What is this a gathering of the Crackpots?
Most illegals are paid far more than minimum wage. There is competition among employers for even illegals. A skilled bodyman, carpenter, butcher, back hoe operator, five axis mill operator, or diesel mechanic can name his price. If he doesn't like his working conditions he can walk across the street and go to work for another employer.
There simply aren't enough workers to fill the demands of our expanding economy. We aborted 40 million American workers and most of the rest we sent to college to get degrees in art history so they can sell insurance and houses to illegals.
Just please can the over-the-top rhetoric for a few weeks. PLEASE.
As for the "illegal" part, you already read the part where I said I oppose illegal immigration, but support legal immigration. If you have trouble reading English, improving in that area will open up some real prospects for higher pay. As for "qualified to be foreman", the main qualification is the ability to speak Spanish.
...which can be learned fluently in about three months, especially if you befriend some of your Mexicano co-workers. It can't be the only qualification, or every Mexican would be a foreman by now.
Well this did. Farah lost the last ounce of credibility. It was hard to sqeeze that last ounce of credibility out, but Farah did it.
It's called a guest worker program and there are three bills pending to do that, including one by Tancredo.
That bears repeating...
Yeah, welcome home...
You're full of it. The President must spend every dime that Congress appropriates for specific purposes. This has been the law for decades.
It isn't and never has been. It is simply the issue the Bush hating Buchananites use to attack the President. Even if on Sept. 12th the President had "secured the border" (which he cannot do, Congress has to) they would still be whining about something else. It is simply about hating Bush.
They'd bring them in by ship or through Canada. Bringing a nuclear weapon across the border isn't like carrying a backpack of clothes. They are far heavier and if all the shielding is removed to make them easier to transport, they spew radiation and will kill very quickly whoever is dumb enough to be handling them.
Of course people like Joseph Farah and other Bush haters are praying a nuclear attack happens on the U.S. This way they can blame Bush for it.
And what exactly are his high crimes and misdemeanors?
Yup the Northeastern Rockefeller Republicans and the liberal democrats are both one in the same, elitist know-it-alls who are totally oblivious to the concerns of the country. It's their way or the highway.
Farah is a loon.Perhaps, but, uh, stopped clocks 'n all that...
Anti-immigrant FReepers? Can you name one FReeper who is opposed to legal immigrants or legal immigration?
Hmmm that's strange, I thought you said in the past illegals were only here to do jobs "no one wanted to do"? Your latest talking points are causing contradictions again, just thought I'd let you know.
Sorry but I am not among the Loons calling for the impeachment of our great president. Leave that to Cindy, DUmmies, Farah, Buchanan and apparently you. Enjoy the company.
Impeach Bush on what grounds?
Buchannan believes that we are being invaded. In that event it is the responsibility of Congress to declare war.
Impeach members of Congress would be more appropriate.
Apparently YOU do, because you stated in post #33: "should Bush fail or refuse to be the executive, impeach him." Remember? I agree.
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