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?
It was doing a lot better than the 1930s was it not?
What exactly are you saying, we should only enforce the law when the economy is in a slump? Illegal immigration is a problem all across the country now, we're not in a postion to wait for the next major depression to enforce the laws.
More personal abuse? One doesn't get to criticize the President here any more, does one? Even for dereliction of duty, or violating his oath of office. Take your ad hominems elsewhere---if GW continues to ignore citizens' concerns about the border and uncontrolled immigration, which are directly related to his refusal to uphold his oath of office by enforcing the immigration laws and defending the borders of the United States, he's courting impeachment.
Hillary would be the next president should the Two STooges plan be implemented. There is no doubt of that and anyone capable of stringing two thoughts together could tell you that.
Presidents cannot create resources out of nothing but must operate within the budgets given them by Congress. Maybe you have hallucinated gigantic increases in the budgets for handling illegals but no one else has. Nor did you address the MAJOR issues raised in the first paragraph.
"if you can't make more than an undocumented ditch-digger, then you're either unmotivated or stupid"
That sort of puts the problem on the ditch-digger rather than on the illegals and those who are responsible for their presence. Why are you ashamed to admit that you are pro-invasion?
What exactly is incorrect about Farah's column? If terrorists can get through our open border with weapons of mass destruction, you have no problem with that?
Bush hasn't asked for any, and he hasn't been doing anything with the enforcement resources he has. Instead, he's pushing an amnesty and gigantic increase in immigration that will make all the current problems immigration is causing pale by comparison.
LoL yes it was better.
No I am saying that we cannot patrol the entire border so as to stop illegals without substantial civilian involvement as we saw in Arizona earlier this year which I support. One of the constant statements about America was that there were six thousand miles of unpatrolled borders and it was always said as a matter of pride. The economic aspect I referred to was that during downturns it becomes a greater issue because of the lack of work for citizens not that economic concerns should be linked to law enforcement.
Now we have people almost ready to declare war on Mexico over a problem which is not at the top of our problems not by a long shot. Then there are Idiotic proposals such as this one.
Don't you get tired of peddling LIES? Bush has done as much as he could given the resources available. And you do not have a grasp on the problem, the solution OR Bush's program. And you are utterly CLUELESS wrt the constitution and impeachment. But that's ok since no one takes such nonsense seriously.
I notice that you conveniently cropped off, "and you're not stupid".
That sort of puts the problem on the ditch-digger rather than on the illegals and those who are responsible for their presence.
Exactly. You see, we both object to illegal immigration, but you also object to legal immigration, because what you really object to is competition. Staying in a crap job, moaning about your circumstances, instead of going out and getting a better one, is being a whiner.
Why are you ashamed to admit that you are pro-invasion?
You would also call legal immigrants "invaders". Why are you ashamed to admit that you can't get any job except the lowest-paying, and you're afraid of competition?
That's an idiotic statement. English is the official language. If you're saying that speaking Chinese in chinatown, French in cajun areas, and German in Amish areas, should all be banned, then you're loco en la cabeza, or you've had muy, muy mucho cerveza.
I'd say I agree in Thai, but my mom-in-law isn't around to translate.
I'd say I agree in Korean, but my daughter-in-law isn't around to translate.
Guess you'll just have to take my sorry American twang to mean, "Ah agree."
Like I said, the "genie's out of the bottle." We'll see just who "takes it seriously" in the months ahead---especially after GW tries to dump his "guest worker plan" amnesty proposal on Congress this fall.
If you talk to people in the border states they'd probably see it differently than you. When I lived in Arizona back in the 1980s it was obviously a problem then so I can only imagine what it's like now.
Would I impeach Bush over it no but if there's another terrorist attack and they came through the open border the calls for one will be loud. We might even possibly see it happen.
It is outrageous that hordes of illegal aliens are roaming across the country, committing horrible crimes, terrorizing citizens, and yet many of our officials insist on special perks for these criminals.
I will wager you right now that the ONLY ones endorsing impeachment (which you do not understand) within the next year will be crackpots like Pat the Hater, Farah, Medea B., Cindy and the Looney Left. No serious patriot will take it seriously. There would not be 10 votes in the House should such nonsense even make it out of committee. Ten bucks that NO such bill makes it out of committee.
I know it is the fondest dream of the Bush haters that there be such an attack. They drool at the idea. But a practical evaluation tells anyone that it won't happen for numerous reasons. Such an attack from the North is FAR more likely.
It's more up to Bush and what he does about the border and immigration than anyone else. No one on the Right would be broaching the subject---and Bush and Chertoff wouldn't be reacting right now with promises to "defend the borders"---if anger over Bush's dereliction of duty on the borders wasn't reaching the boiling point.
Bush is getting fair warning from many people who voted for him... get these borders, both of them under control BEFORE there's another attack.
The Dems have all the solutions...Let Jimmy
Cater and the Painless one...Clintoon...be a
committee of to have a solution by 6/06...it
will give them something to do and afford a
few laughs...so Bush can keep up his terrorists
war...kill 'em...forget the Justice..there is
none... Jake
Enjoy your Kool-Aid while it lasts...
Anger generally militates against rationality. This thread is a case in point. Completely irrational.
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