Pat Buchanan Drinks the Kool-Aid

Invade Mexico? Hillary Clinton is great?? Our country needs a dictator??? Pat Buchanan goes so far off the deep end on immigration in his recent column that I'll let him speak for himself:

A president like Teddy Roosevelt would have led the Army to the border years ago. And if Fox did not cooperate, T.R. would have gone on to Mexico City . Nor would Ike, who deported all illegal aliens in 1953, have stood still for this being done to the country he had defended in war.

What are these Bush Republicans afraid of? Dirty looks from the help at the country club?

The question of whether America is going to remain one nation, or whether our Southwest will wind up as a giant Kosovo - separated by language and loyalty from the rest of America - is on the table.

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.

Not only have [New Mexico Governor] Richardson and [Arizona Governor] Napolitano awakened - they are on the front lines - so, too, has Hillary Clinton, who has spoken out against illegal immigration with a forthrightness that makes Bush sound like a talking head for La Raza.

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Why should U.S. citizens be assaulted, robbed, raped and murdered, and have their children molested, because their government will not enforce its own laws?

Is this not an indictment of democracy itself? What dictatorial regime would put up with this?

The Republican Party claims to be a conservative party. But what kind of conservative is it who, to cut a few costs or make a few bucks, will turn his family's home into a neighborhood flop house?

He goes on to suggest that House Republicans draft articles of impeachment for President Bush because of his immigration policies.

Meanwhile, Tony Blankley warns (in an otherwise intelligent and politically astute column) that unless Republicans oppose Bush's guest-visa program they could "further alienate the growing part of the public for whom secure borders is becoming the single issue on which they will vote."

I say, good riddance!