They Just Don’t Get It…
Filed under: 110th Congress, 2008 Elections, Blogs Against McCain, Domestic Issues, Global War On Terror, Immigration, Pelosi's Lemmings, Representative Tom Tancredo, Senator Edward Kennedy, Senator John McCain
Bush, Rove, and many other elected Republicans just aren’t getting it.
“He was surprised by the reaction,” Mr. Snow said of Mr. Bush’s speech in Glynco, Ga., last week.
Only 26% of Americans favor the “Comprehensive Immigration Bill” that McCain, Kennedy, and Bush are attempting to ram down our collective throats. Only 16% believe it will reduce the number of illegals entering the country, if it becomes law.
Tom Tancredo gets it, and he got it early on. He’s been hammering the Immigration issue like the one trick pony of a presidential candidate that he is. Tancredo simply put, owns this issue.
(The New Republic) For most Washington Republicans, a berating from Karl Rove is the stuff of nightmares. For Tom Tancredo, it was the best thing that ever happened to him. One morning in April 2002, the representative from Colorado was driving to work when his cell phone rang. It was Rove calling from the White House. The president’s fabled strategist had just finished reading a Washington Times article in which Tancredo, whose political obsession is to limit both legal and illegal immigration into this country, had warned the Bush administration to treat border control more seriously. As usual, Tancredo had delivered his point in cunningly theatrical terms. “Unless we do something significant to control our borders, we’re going to have another event with someone waltzing across the borders. Then the blood of the people killed will be on this administration and this Congress.” The quote sent Rove into a hollering rage–”he was absolutely screaming,” Tancredo says–that forced the representative to pull off the road for safety. Among other things, Tancredo says, Rove called him a “traitor,” and, with an impressive literary flourish, warned him “never again to darken the doorstep of the White House.”
Quite simply, on 9/11 everything changed. We cannot afford to allow our southern, and northern, borders to be as porous as they have been in the past. Doing so will lead to another calamity.
How many times do we have to hear the terrorists say that we will…
“- experience things which will make you forget all about the horrors of September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Virginia Tech”
… before we take border security, and national security seriously?
As far as I am concerned, Tancredo got it exactly right.
“Unless we do something significant to control our borders, we’re going to have another event with someone waltzing across the borders. Then the blood of the people killed will be on this administration and this Congress.”
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With as jerrymandered as the political districts are at this point. It is no wonder that the goverment can care less about the will of the pepole. There is no way to vote anybody out anymore so why server anybody but the special intrests, it makes me so mad I have become a Neo-Monarcist.
The Bushes are country club Republicans. Like we didn’t know THAT. But with nothing else to choose??? I just fear that is all we are getting THIS time around too. SOME things never will change.
I’d LOVE TO VOTE FOR TANCREDO…and will in the PRIMARY, but will hold my nose, AS ALWAYS, in the GENERAL.
A couple of remarks, if I may:
It seems that Alabama’s Senator Sessions also “gets it” and lately Senator Shelby, as well, as far as the “SHAMNETSTY bill is concerned.
Personally, I would love to see the Republican party have a presidential/veep “wrasslin’ tag-team-tandem ticket” of Congressmen Ron Paul and Tom Tancredo. I would place Paul at the top of the team to insure we have a president who governs strictly according to the US Constitution, and have him put veep Tancredo in charge of domestic security. I believe such a ticket would be a winner with clear-headed American voters.
Duncan Hunter might fit into such an administration somewhere, also.