
Sometimes waking up to the news is not a good idea.
Between hearing about rabid Tom Tancredo's screed against Supreme Court nominee, Justice Sotomayor, and the chaplain, Michael Bray, of the so-called 'Army of God' who thinks that the murder of Dr George Tiller is just fine because he is a murderer, I am ready to go back under the covers.
Why does Tancredo so hate Latinos? He does. Thank God he didn't mess around in the Salvadoran presidential election the way he and his minions did in 2004.
The Rolling Stone had this to say about him in 2006:
The House Immigration Reform Caucus certainly has its share of hard-core xenophobes: One member, Rep. Steve King of Iowa, calls illegal immigration a "terrorist attack on the United States" and wants to erect an electrified fence to control Mexicans like livestock. But the founder of the caucus — and the undisputed king of Republican bigotry — is Tancredo, a dark-horse presidential contender for 2008. "He's got the best track record in Congress," raves Gordon Baum, head of the Council for Conservative Citizens, a "pro-white" group that lauds Tancredo for protecting America from a "full-scale invasion" of Latin immigrants.
Elected to the House in 1998, Tancredo has not only led the fight to deport every undocumented worker in America — a proposal that would cost at least $200 billion — but has called for halting all immigration, legal and otherwise. In one unforgettable move, Tancredo wanted to deport the family of an undocumented high school boy who was profiled in The Denver Post for his perfect grades.
The grandson of Italian immigrants, Tancredo traces his interest in politics to the eighth grade, when he played Fidel Castro in a class assignment. He urges America to reject "the siren song of multiculturalism" and depicts Islam as "a civilization bent on destroying ours." In September, when Pope Benedict XVI sparked riots by condemning Islam as "evil," Tancredo urged him not to apologize. Even the right has noted his unbridled looniness on the subject: In July, when Tancredo proposed that America respond to any future terrorist attack by bombing Mecca and other holy sites, the National Review came to an unavoidable conclusion: "Tom Tancredo is an idiot."
As far as these so-called Christians who think the way Bray does, there are no words.
Grump.
4 comments:
Wow! A real life, present-day Vicar of Bray.
Tancredo is a piece of work, isn't he?
Just to be clear -- Tancredo is a FORMER Representative from Colorado. Even so -- thanks be that I'm not in his former district. What an idiot.
garrumph too. but maybe the news is better than the 700 Club or something....
how about Sesame Street instead?!
I hope you dashed into the bathroom, took a scalding shower and rubbed yourself down with something zesty...what horrible men to be tainted by.
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