08.31.05
…for allowing the invasion of illegal aliens, says Pat Buchanan:
Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska. His legislative agenda for the fall includes a blanket amnesty for illegals, so they can be exploited by businesses who want to hold wages down as they dump the social costs for their employees — health care, schools, courts, cops, prisons – onto taxpayers.
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Impeach Bush!
In a recent post, i suggested the road to the white house will go through the border, that is becoming more evident every day.
Trackback by The Aurora — 08.31.05 @ 11:25 am
A nation of outlaws
That particular example proves two things. As LaShawn indicates it shows that immigration is out of control, but it also shows that our judicial system is also out of control.
Trackback by Don Singleton — 08.31.05 @ 11:27 am
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September 24th
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Comment by rick — 08.31.05 @ 11:39 am
Geez, I wish Pat Buchanan held an office so we could impeach him and part of the punishment would be duct tape on his mouth for the rest of his life except when eating.
Comment by Jeanette — 08.31.05 @ 12:13 pm
Buchanan is an isolationist who opposed the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Buchanan has been an outspoken critic of our only ally in the region, Israel, to the extent that some of his writings border on anti-Semitic.
Buchanan is only looking out for Buchanan, not America.
Comment by Louis — 08.31.05 @ 12:18 pm
La Shawn, I don’t buy the basic argument that we need Mexican immigrants to do the jobs that “Americans won’t do”. I mow my own lawn, fix my own cars, motorcycles, guns, plumbing, clean my toilets and paint the house, when I get around to it! This is not unusual in the U.S.A.! I would like my President to explain how allowing an army of illegals into this land so they can work and send the profits to their homeland, can benefit me!
Comment by Tom Bosee — 08.31.05 @ 1:00 pm
LaShawn, I’m curious, are you merely reporting on what Buchanan has said, or are you agreeing with him? Congrats on the WaTimes piece, btw.
Comment by The Anchoress — 08.31.05 @ 1:02 pm
I don’t buy the basic argument that we need Mexican immigrants to do the jobs that “Americans won’t doâ€.
Maybe you never stay in hotels or eat in full service or fast food restaurants. Perhaps you don’t consume fresh vegetables and fruits. Possibly you house was built a hundred years ago.
But if you do stay in hotels and eat in restaurants, if you consume fresh fruits and veggies, if your house was built in the last five years, you benefitted in part with immigrant labor.
Comment by brotherbrown — 08.31.05 @ 1:10 pm
But if you do stay in hotels and eat in restaurants, if you consume fresh fruits and veggies, if your house was built in the last five years, you benefitted in part with immigrant labor.
brotherbrown
I don’t see anyone objecting to immigrant labor but does it have to come from illegal immigrants?
Comment by Richard B — 08.31.05 @ 1:29 pm
Brotherbrown, I frequent hotels, restaurants, eat vegetables, etc. I wasn’t talking about legal immigrants: I was talking about illegals, who are not accountable to any government, not even their own!
Comment by Tom Bosee — 08.31.05 @ 1:40 pm
But you don’t know either way whether your service was from legal or illegal immigrants. Unless you are going to tell me you ask for proof before you patronize.
Comment by brotherbrown — 08.31.05 @ 2:08 pm
brotherbrown, I’ll carry my passport when I go out to dinner tonight, and say to the waiter-waitress, busboy etc., “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” This is a silly way to talk about a serious issue of national security when our lives are at stake!
Comment by Tom Bosee — 08.31.05 @ 2:25 pm
This is a silly way to talk about a serious issue of national security when our lives are at stake!
Is what I am saying silly or what you are saying silly?
Maybe what it takes is guys like you protesting every business that employees illegal aliens. Put the pressure on the pocketbook of the owners to whip them into line. If they want your dollar, force them to hire only red-blooded americans.
Comment by brotherbrown — 08.31.05 @ 2:45 pm
Finaly the American Public starts to wake up…
First from Rogue Angel: Bush hits a new low … Rising gas prices and ongoing bloodshed in Iraq continue to take their toll on President Bush, whose standing with the public has sunk to an all-time low, according to the…
Trackback by In Search Of Utopia — 08.31.05 @ 3:04 pm
Here what In Search of Utopia left off of its trackback in post #14:
“I get the feeling that the Kool Aide rations are getting a bit low and that many Republicans and Conservatives are waking up to the fact that they elected an incompetent administration for a second time. Rather than acknowledge that mistake, they seek an issue, any issue, to create an out… As long as it is something that they can all agree on. The truth is that this administration has been an utter failure in almost everything it has attempted.”
Buchanan might have written the same words, but he has little in common with In Search of Utopia. It just proves that “politics makes strange bedfellows.”
I am bemused that the loony liberal left thinks that dealing with illegal immigration and controlling the borders is a desperation act on the part of Republicans and conservatives who have lost their grounding.
Pat Buchanan has stuck his finger in the high voltage socket so many times his sensibilities can only be shocked if he receives three or more lightening strikes simultaneously. At least he serves as a perfect foil for the lunatic liberals.
Comment by Heliotrope — 08.31.05 @ 4:20 pm
Buchanan is correct in one sense, our global committments are not in sync with a Republican form of government. The reason we are in Iraq is the right one. But our stay there should be short and not another South Korea type presence.
Stay there to get the Iraqis up on their feet politically and with a homeguard to keep out the riff raff. Give them a favored nation standing to encourge long term trade. Then have a nice parade, throw flowers all around, shake hands then quietly exit stage right.
Comment by JohnMc — 08.31.05 @ 5:50 pm
Buchanan is a 30s style isolationist who I suspect thought old Joe Kennedy Sr. did a fine job as ambassador to the UK. His point that Bush should be impeached over illegal immigration isn’t very original though. Illegal immigration is a staple of talk radio here in So. Calif., and once people figured out that Bush was going leave the borders wide open after 9/11, the calls for his impeachment over it began.
Comment by Gary — 08.31.05 @ 5:53 pm
W and Cheney both should be impeached for defrauding the Congress and the country and fixing the intelligence about Iraq.
He grossly ignored the border issue, but he intentionally got us into war under false pretenses with a country that posed no threat to us. That’s even more unforgivable.
Comment by nyblues — 08.31.05 @ 6:03 pm
Revenge of the Paleocon Populist
In his WorldNetDaily column, "A national emergency," Pat Buchanan calls for the impeachment of President Bush, citing the President's failure to protect the country from illegal immigration as a binding precedural impetus:Twice, George B…
Trackback by protein wisdom — 08.31.05 @ 6:43 pm
Using Pat-lovian logic then, should we retroactively impeach Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush 41, and Bill Clinton? I suppose we could even go back to the fifties and before when the Bracero program was in full swing. Field workers were brought in from Mexico as ‘guest workers’ and later deported as ‘illegal immigrants’.
Comment by SickAndTired — 08.31.05 @ 7:54 pm
I read the column, and I agree with Buchanan. How ’bout this all you open borders people. When our unemployment rate hits 0 then we allow more people in.
We are busy policing the whole world yet we leave our borders open to terrorists!? Lets fix what we have at home before telling other countries what type of government they should have.
Dan
Comment by dan — 09.01.05 @ 8:58 am
If all illegal aliens were to disappear from America today our economy would not collapse. Being a capitalist economy our markets for labor, goods, and services would adjust and move forward. That is what capitalist economies do best.
Illegal aliens are an illegal ‘drug’ for some American businesses and the pusher is the American government. Those businesses are on a cheap labor high.
What about those businesses that can not benefit from cheap illegal labor? What about those in the hotel, construction, and land-scaping businesses that *choose* not to break the law by hiring illegals - how fair is it to them?
Illegal aliens and the governments that at least tacitly support them provide a cheap fix for certain businesses that in turn pay into the re-election coffers of the politicians that aid and abet the economic and demographic invasion of America.
You can bet if poor white Americans were illegally immigrating to some other country and negatively effecting the citizens of that country as well as changing its demographics, their would be an uproar from many who now support the same thing happening here.
Comment by F15C — 09.01.05 @ 11:27 am
F15C we just want to get rid of the gangs like M-13 - any group that can issue a contract killing that is backed up with a threat of death if not carried out is just crazy and does not belong here
Comment by Martin Pratt — 09.01.05 @ 2:54 pm
Pat Buchanan Calls For Impeachment Bill Against Bush For Lack Of Immigration Enforcement
Pat Buchanan in an editorial calls for a Republican to file an impeachment bill against President Bush for his lack of action against illegal aliens. If this is what’s needed to defend our border so be it. WND A president…
Trackback by Diggers Realm — 09.01.05 @ 6:54 pm