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?
There isn't going to be an attack from Mexico. Look at your allies here. Not a rational one in the bunch.
Oh, goodie lets gather ALL the whackjobs on this thread it prevents them from disturbing the serious ones.
I knew the "whackjobs" AKA compassionate conservatives were here when I saw your name.
That's a matter of opinion of which I do not agree.
Apparently as long as you are willing to defend the President on his immigration record, you have carte blanche at this site to refer to other posters as "scum," "whackjobs," etc. If you take issue with his record, you're not allowed to even halfway respond in kind. Good to know.
Who ever gave you the idea I was "compassionate"? If that were true I would not be ridiculing the ridiculous.
Why don't you take your elitist open-borders crap and try and peddle it to the ranchers and other people on the border who have to put up with the illegals banging on their doors, trespassing on their property, leaving garbage and human waster everywhere. Why don't you go and say to the face of one of the September 11 victims' relatives that it really doesn't matter during wartime whether people wander back and forth across our border. Go ahead and tell any of the people who find discarded prayer rugs and Korans along the border that our enemies aren't taking advantage of our open border.
Unless you're willing to do those things, rather than smear people concerned about our national security DURING WARTIME as racist or stupid, then I suggest you shut the hell up and shove your open-borders crap where the sun don't shine, OK?
We're the "persona non grata" club.
Oh, the beating I took for labeling Joseph Farah a complete damned fool several years ago.
So being against the impeachment of one of our greatest presidents means I am for Open Borders? Of course, one would be surprised to hear such a statement from a rational person but not from pals of Pat the Hater and Freaky Farah.
I have heard this bullshite about "prayer rugs" and "Korans" and don't believe a word of it no more than the when someone tried to claim Arabs were flocking across and used something written in Farsi as proof. LoL.
Now the Jersey Girls might be upset with Bush but the rest of the families stongly support our beloved president who is exacting revenge on the terrorists so that LIE goes down the toilet with your others.
As for Elitist in that you are correct I associate willingly only with intelligent, cultured individuals and care nothing for the opinions of the less intelligent and less cultured hence my disdain for anyone calling for the impeachment of one of our greatest presidents.
If uncontrolled immigration keeps up, every citizen of this country is going to be "personal non grata" in a country they can no longer call theirs. I have to consider people who close their eyes to what uncontrolled immigration is doing to this country as insane---because if I had to consider them evil....
I have no complaint about rational criticism of anyone but using the argument of Pat the moonBat and Farah the Fruit? Lol.
What an ignorant and foolish thing to say.
What an ignorant and foolish thing to say.
Sounds like a little bit of Clinton-style "inoculation"---deflecting any blame for another attack from Bush onto "Bush haters." Bush defenders are taking many pages from the old Carville/Begala playbook these days.
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?
we both object to illegal immigration,
Then why do you make excuses for the, as you like to call them, "undocumented"?
The pro-invader types have shifted their argument from "They are taking jobs that Americans aren't willing to take" to "It's your own damn fault if you have an honest job like carpenter and some non-citizen is willing to do your job for a can of beans and a bottle of tequila because you should have become a lawyer or some other profession that a poor Mexican immigrant can't readily take"
Actually, with all of these "Bush's Banditos" flooding into the country, maybe lawyer is the right profession to get into right now. Is it true that illegal aliens make up 30% of the prison population now? Guess who gets to pay for housing these prisoners? It sure isn't the illegals, it's the workers that have their wages driven down by illegals that get to pay for their incarceration.
I couldn't agree with you more.
Then why do you make excuses for the, as you like to call them, "undocumented"?
When you finish that reading course, in addition to a raise, you'll be able to understand a point by the fifth or sixth time I repeat it. That'll be cool. I make no excuses for the "undocumented"; I'm simply pointing out that if we close the borders, you will still have legal mexican neighbors, and apparently you will have strenuous objection to their "invading" our country and daring to, among other things, speak spanish.
In short, you aren't just against illegal immigrants; you're against all immigrants because you're prejudiced against hispanics in general. Apparently, your prejudice is based on the fear that they will come into this country and do everything better and cheaper than you, leaving nothing for you to do for a living.
I don't think we have much choice. If the war-time president is not taking the necessary steps to defend this country, then by all means he should be impeached.
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