Posted on 11/09/2010 6:59:50 PM PST by Nachum
The far left Washington DC based Institute for Policy Studies is the "ideas factory" behind the communist/socialist aligned Congressional Progressive Caucus and the wider Obama Administration.
If you want to know what the Democrats will do tomorrow, read what I.P.S. is advocating today.
For example I.P.S. staffer Chuck Collins recommended that Obama appoint communist Van Jones as a "Green Jobs Czar", even before the 2008 election.
Now I.P.S. staffer Karen Dolan makes a shocking but partially true claim regarding the 2010 mid term elections......Progressives WON!
Dolan explains that I.P.S.'s baby, the hard left, nearly 80 strong Congressional Progressive Caucus, remained largely intact in the aftermath of last Tuesday's elections.
While so called "centrist" or moderate democrats lost hugely, the Progressives lost only three members Alan Grayson, John Hall and Phil "don't worry about the Constitution" Hare.
To Dolan this means that Obama and the remaining Democrats now have nothing to lose by pushing hard to the left.
Dolan also openly advocates that Obama should "do the right thing through as many Executive Orders as we can present to him."
In other words, Obama should simply use dictatorial powers to force I.P.S's Marxist agenda down America's throat.
From the Institute for Policy Studies website
Did we all miss the news flash? PROGRESSIVES WON! Two significant exceptions are of course the tragic defeat of Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and the sad loss of prinicpled Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). But, the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the largest caucus in the House Democratic Caucus at over 80 members, emerged virtually unscathed, losing only three members.By constrast, the conservative Blue Dog Democratic caucus was more than sliced in half from 54 members to only 26. Further, of the 34 conservative Dems who voted against Obama's Healthcare Reform, a mere 12 won re-election.
Dead weight gone. Good Riddance. The blame for the stalemate to come can now fall squarely where it belongs...on the anti-progressive, anti-democratic, anti-populist Republican members of Congress.
Our work is now finally beginning. The veil of a happy Democratic governing majority is finally lifted. We didn't have it then; We don't have it now. But what we do have now is a more solidly progressive bunch of Dems in Congress and a president presumably less encumbered by the false illusion that playing nice will get him a date with the other team.
Let's thank Grayson, as well as Reps. John Hall (D-NY) Phil Hare (D-IL) for their principled time in office. Let's get Feingold on the ticket as Obama's runningmate in 2012. Let's throw our support unabashedly behind the Congressional Progressive Caucus and let's push Obama to finally do the right thing through as many Executive Orders as we can present to him.
People...Progressives WON!!! Republicans are all over the map. They're a mess and won't be able to wreak the havoc they seek. We should be energized. We must be energized. Too much is at stake. The road ahead isn't so bad as long as we have the big picture and the fighting spirit spurring us on. Progressives will be the heroes in 2012. Let's make Obama one too.
Russ Feingold, may or not be on the 2012 ticket with Barack Obama, but I will bet you dollars to do-nuts that I.P.S. and their socialist and communist allies will be working overtime to make all of Karen Dolan's predictions come to pass.
These Neanderthals might be “progressive” but boy are they dumb.
Why not? The Republican Party has always been a staunch advocate of a strong executive branch.
What's good for the Republican goose should be good for the Democrat gander.
Of course we could be hypocrites ...
You are correct, sir!
There is some historical basis to this view. The Russian Communists won out in the second decade of the last century by stage-by-stage throwing everyone else out of the Social Democrat Party, until only the ideologically pure remained in a much smaller Party.
I want some of the stuff Dolan is smoking. Grayson “principled”? She’s out of her F*king mind. So was he, for that matter.
She’s Right (for the first time in her lefty life)about the Progressive Caucus being intact, but the reds have always had these types of people from New York, Massachusetts, Chicago/Illinois, Michigan, California, Oregon, and Washington State, with a few nuts from Wisconsin, Vermont and Connecticut thrown into the mix.
DC has always had a leftist as their non-voting representative (Eleanor Holmes Norton - I’d love to see her FBI file).
Now the job is to expose these enemies of America to the new conservatives, a job with Trevor Loudon and his fine site “www.newzeal.blogspot.com” does.
There is a lot of red dirt on these people that needs to see daylight so stick around FReers. It is coming.
I expect the Kenyan now to try to rule by EO and if he is fairly successful with that, by adding judicious of the Army.
Rule by EOs and possibly eventually the military:
Posse Comitatus is essentially dead and Bush did it to us.
-These changes were included in the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (H.R. 5122), which was signed into law on October 17, 2006.[4]
Section 1076 is titled “Use of the Armed Forces in major public emergencies.” It provided that:
The President may employ the armed forces... to... restore public order and enforce the laws of the United States when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other condition... the President determines that... domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of maintaining public order... or [to] suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy if such... a condition... so hinders the execution of the laws... that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law... or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.[5]
I’d like to see them try. We haven’t convicted anyone for treason in some time.
Posse Comitatus
“did you just call him a pussy communist?”
With any luck, these 80 communists will be the only DemonRats left in the house after the 2010 elections. And then they’ll be screeching about how they really really won!
Look for Grayson to be hired by MSNBC to fill the vacuum between Olbermann and Mathews.
Nice spin idiot. Try running Alan Greyson style candidates in ‘12. The proper outlook on the election was that the progressives were marginalized to the far left Siberia of politics.
Your brand is now officially toxic.
I’m not picking on you, but there’s an awful lot of ellipses in that excerpt, some of which appear to be in places that could substantially change the meaning of the quote. If you have the full text handy, putting it up might clear things up a bit.
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