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?
Don't we just wish that Albert Gore had been elected??? Or, perhaps, Buchanan and Farrah would prefer John Kerry????
If that's not what they prefer, then they are about to assure that one of the Far Left Democrats will most certainly "lead" the country in 2008! Yes, lead it straight to socialism and tyranny!!
Your very welcome
The threat of impeachment, made by citizens and two irrelevant columnists, means less than nothing. No matter how many times you post, all you're doing is wasting your time and giving support to raving nutter such as Crazy Cindy Sheeham; not to mention her crowd of anarchists.
To date, one and only ONE, elected president has been impeached, in the entire history of this nation and the Senate refused to kick him out. Had they done so, we would now have "President algore".
Neither you nor anyone else who is calling for this now, no matter the reason, don't know nor understand how this government works, nor what you're saying/typing.
Thank God for that. Otherwise we would already have a new President in control.
When mayor after mayor and governor after governor have forbade the police, teachers, welfare workers, doctors, nurses, and just about everyone else, from turning in known illegals, what do you think this president or any other could have done? And please don't tell me that he should have prosecuted every single one of them. That goes beyond his authorized powers.
So you really think Cyndi Sheehan supports border security and immigration law enforcement?
To date, one and only ONE, elected president has been impeached, in the entire history of this nation and the Senate refused to kick him out. Had they done so, we would now have "President algore".
So you didn't/don't approve of the impeachment of Clinton? And oh, by the way, the Republican Senate wouldn't convict Clinton, not because he wasn't guilty, but because they didn't want to face an incumbent President Gore in 2000. Principled.
Why nothing. Nothing at all.
Specifically, what problem is 100 years old? Are you referring to the impact on our hospitals, jails, schools, traffic, crime, social services etc?
I was all for Clinton's impeachment and anyone who REALLY has principles would have voted to oust him; the threat of algore as a sitting president, or no. And the Senators were a quivering basket case, who didn't vote to oust Slick Willie because they were unprincipled. Heck, the Senate, as a whole, refuse, utterly, to allow a full trial to occur.
If you could address 388
And there really isn't anything that the president can do, about the mayors and governors who thumb their collective noses at the law. And if you imagine that he could, then what is it? Put them all on trial? It's never been done and I'd like you to find, in the Constitution, in the enumerated powers of a president, it list what he can/must do.
What does this have to do with the question put forth?
Specifically, what problem is 100 years old? Are you referring to the impact on our hospitals, jails, schools, traffic, crime, social services etc?
During the early 1950s, for example, things were so bad, that even Hollywood knew about it and made a movie ( fiction, but based on fact! ) about it.
Pancho Villa, in the early part of the 20th century, made raids into the USA and committed crimes.
History matters; learn some. I'm tired of teaching it, over and over and over and over and OVER again, to those of you who don't know enough of it.
It has everything to do with your reply to me. Don't play the fool.
I am sorry, the 1950 can not be compared with what is happening now, today. is this an attempt to skirt the issue?
Can we get try and get into this era?
Excuse me?
Let's play.....
I don't have all day........see you soon
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