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?
The president gets to set policy.
I really thought, once upon a time, that the KNOWS NOTHINGS were all dead and gone, but some are alive and well and to be found on FR.
The Rust Belt States? Detroit? About all they've got left are captive industries, and then only the parts of those remaining are the parts that can't outsource.
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"you want the cheap labor to bust the unions "
There's nothing wrong with cheap labor or busting unions.
There is if you're using or encouraging illegal foreign labor to do it while forcing the taxpayers to subsidize that labor. It's the whole point of these threads, or haven't you noticed?
After all, it's not like you can read what he actually says or anything. Give it up, troll.
Indeed. With a little polemical imagination, I could even call using illegal immigrant labor as "stealing" or "looting" from taxpayers. Far more just than equating advocacy of the rule of law with looting in New Orleans.
Yeah, that would rankle, wouldn't it? But Jim_Curtis has made it clear that even if the immigrants were all legal, he'd want them kicked out of the country so he Americans can be forced to pay more, to line his pockets. "Wage gouging", if you will.
Why would anyone need to after recognize how little good faith and integrity you bring to any discussion?
Me too. I usually only find this kind of deliberate misrepresentation of my comments on liberal message boards.
It's stealing to me too and won't stop until some of these employers start doing some time.
I do understand and I am with you in believing that our national security begins with secure borders. However you seem willing to abandon the President and the majority to do... what? Are you going to support impeachment? Are you going to vote for hillary? Or are you going to waste your vote on the next Perot-like spoiler?
Running from the GOP isn't the answer.Instead I think you should push for change from within and keep control of the Executive and Legislative branches of Government. The GOP is NOT a lost cause.
More myths. Illegals aren't subsidized anymore than any other employees. The working class are all subsidized by the wealthy who pay the overwhelming majority of taxes.
The share each and every man woman and child of the federal budget alone in a little over $20,000 per year.
Illegal workers contribute $800 Billion to our GDP per year. The corporations and wealthy whose taxes make up for yours and mine wouldn't have that money to pay those taxes without the contribution of illegals.
Cities know what generates the wealth that pays the city taxes. That's why so many are "sanctuary" cities. You will never win by trying to claim that productive workers are an economic liability.
It's one insane lie after another with you, one usually finds this kind of desperate approach only in the liberal. I'm for a moratorium on further immigration, I said nothing about "kicking out" the legal immigrants that are here.
You and YOU alone, are deliberately misrepresenting what you have posted.
Go back to the liberal message boards, where you are more at home.
On issues like border security and immigration control, there is essentially no difference between FR these days and such liberal message boards.
You know, for all that the OBL hacks like to try to use Cyndi Sheehan as a bludgeon against border security patriots, I'd bet that if she ever spoke on the subject of illegal immigration, she'd be on the same side as Bush/Rove and the OBL hacks here! I'm going to surf a bit and see if I can find anything she's said on the issue.
What this seems to boil down to, is whether I'm going to continue to support the President or the RP. I would urge you to realize that it's just the opposit. Are they going to uphold the law, the U.S. Constitution and the fine citizens of this nation? Please don't tell me that my loyalty is of prime importance, but the President's and the RP's to the previoisly mentioned conserns isn't.
Around 1992 I would have said the same thing you just have. In 2000 I left the party. I still yearn for a viable party that supports wholesome value. It just doesn't exist.
Thanks for the comments. I appreciate it.
Why don't we just stick him in a straight jacket, air lift him over Iran and drop him. Would that make you happy?
Bush is doing his job very well. We are lucky to have him as a president the non-recognition of that fact by dimwits is irrelevent.
Look who has crawled out from under their rocks against him: the Party of Treason, the fags, the feminazis, the envirowhackos, the perpetually disgruntled, nimrods, the pitiful remnants of the Bridgadeers, Code Pink, DU, Moveon, Not in My Name the list of skulkers, saboteurs, the irresponsible, the unaware, Michael MOOer and the Fantasizing Few.
Not easy to see whose side patriots are on.
Coming to see the Circus? More clowns here than at the International Clown Convention.
We won't have a pro-invasion Republican Presidential nominee in 2008. The concern is the damage to our national sovereignty that Bush can do in his remaining 3.5 years as President.
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