Posted on 09/17/2006 8:50:55 AM PDT by EveningStar
Pat Buchannan should fade away.....
Now that a POTUS deserving of impeachment has gone through the ropes the term is a might bit overused these days.
You were missed.
Now when did the MSM start doing that? /s
I couldn't agree more.
His mind did, just waiting for the body to follow...........
That wouldn't apply here, since as everyone else in this thread has stated perfectly, Pat left the Republican party several years ago.
Pukeanan or Huffandpuffington are the only "Republican" spokesmen allowed on PravdABDNC!
Pray for W and Our Troops
Ever since 9/11, we should have made border security one of the top priorities, but we haven't. It's not Clinton's fault any more and Buchanan isn't wrong to point that out.
Pat forgot that rule the first time he decided to challenge Bush 1 for President. It seems Pat is related to John McCain when it comes to "me first". I agree President Bush should do more to secure our borders, but if we're going to impeach those who've failed to do so, we've got to go back aways! Failure to secure our borders didn't start in 2000. Having said that, I do believe Bush could have and should have done more than he has/is doing. Talk of impeachment is not smart, and Pat needs to realize he's hurting himself and the nation with his radical rants. Unfortunately for all of us, Pat never knows when to shut up...give him an ounce of attention and he goes berserk thinking he's No. 1!
Perhaps Fat Ted will hold the door for him and then follow behind?
> Well .. it goes back a lot farther than Clinton .. it's been ignored for years. To single out Bush is just plain ignorant.
> And .. why not impeach the Congress for not DOING THEIR JOB.
Amen. The unholy alliance of Congress and Bush on the border issue is scandalous. I write and call until I'm blue in the face. Nothing. Does someone have any idea how to turn these so-called conservatives back into America-defenders? Buchanan just made this harder by helping to lump us in as fringe.
Well, we're not fringe. Even Democrat non-politicians are with us on enforcing immigration laws. All the politicians on both sides of the aisle (with a very few ones with integrity like Tancredo) are in the pocket of the slave-wage lobbyists. Follow the money.
"It is to elect better politicians..."
Electing "better politicians" simply ensures that the insanity continues, only in more underhanded and media-savvy ways. Better politicians find better and more invisible ways to game to the system.
The "solution" (Wombat101 reserves all rights to this solution, btw) is really very simple;
The problem is NOT that Mexicans and such cross the border to take "jobs Americans won't do", but rather "take jobs Americans won't do without a 401(k) and a dental plan". If someone offered me $20 an hour to mow lawns, I might very well do it in my spare time. If someone offered me $20 an hour to mow lawns with a matching employer donation to a retirement plan, and the possibility of buying an employer-sponsored health insurance plan,I might make a career out of it.
However, the labor market being what it is, this will not happen. The premium jobs nowadays require a great level of technical skill. Manual labor has lost it's lustre; even many construction jobs require a level of technical skill and specialty.
So, what are we to do? Here's my novel idea:
Why don't we make it more diffiuclt for people to obtain government-sponsored college loans, forcing those who would have simply taken these low-interest loans to loaf around for five years while merely attracting the patina of knowledge, and forcing them instead to WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE? This was once a commonplace activity. Instead, the Department of Education and many state-level industries make it comparitively easy to obtain education loans, many of which go unpaid even AFTER the recipient finds work.
Imagine: millions of American college-graduates possessing not only a degree, but a work history even before they seek that first interview! Imagine: a re-introduction of the work ethic into American society! Imagine: people actually VALUING their education because they broke their backs for it! Imagine: the crippling costs of a college education offset by young Americans making their OWN investment in their OWN futures! Imagine: fewer tax dollars going out to majors in "soft" sciences (like "Gender Studies" and "World Peace") and "vanity" degrees through the Department of Education! Why, if you were willing to WORK for your degree, you'd want a degree that would actually GET you work later on!
How many American youths, some sub-sets notoriously unemployed (often unemployable) and under-educated, would jump at the chance to spend the fall picking produce, if the money they earned could be applied to obtaining a college-level degree or to defray the cost of a technical school tuition?
Perhaps if Americans were called upon to sacrifice (like they used to), they might take up the challenge. However, sacrifice is a word that has fallen out of favor. If we can create a "Peace Corps", we can easily do this.
Well .. so far the House has stepped up to the plate and written and passed legislation to build a border fence. I think the vote was 235 to 138. How long this will take and how this info will prod the terrorists to do their next attack early, may be in our favor .. as their rush to beat the fence may cause them to make many mistakes.
Anyway, I'm praying for those mistakes to be caught in time.
Nuts at least have some usefulness!!! The kind that grows on trees!
Well said. The border isn't being enforced and since 9/11 border security should be the TOP priority. Buchanan is right to point out that the emperor (or high tech border non-fence they are planning) is naked, before the next terrorist attack. Bush shouldn't be impeached but he needs to feel the heat before it is too late and terrorists cross the border.
Banned? You are that upset by something Buchanan says that you want to ban him? How about responding to what he trying to point out: the border is NOT SECURE!
How do you suppose we can get the attention of the politicians to fix this National Security problem before it kills us? I'm glad we took the fight to the Islamists (Buchanan is wrong about that, btw), but how about we fix our security here at the border, too?
Here's a line from another post that you really should use to vent your anger and frustration:
"....the attack is being coordinated by Adnan el-Shukrijumah and suggests it may involve some form of weapon of mass destruction smuggled across the Mexican border."
If something like this happens, Americans, especially the libs, will be calling for the impeachment of the President and all of congress for not doing enough to secure the border. Now is the time, before something happens.
CUCKCOO has to keep saying more and more outrageous nonsense to have any attention paid to him.
"HEY LOOK AT ME... OVER HERE.... HEY GUYS, IT ME, REMEMEBER ME...""
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