Lets make sure that Pelosi has a severe case of Gavel Interuptus after the election in November.
Posted on 10/14/2006 6:48:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
San Francisco's far-left Pelosi will lead Democrats in House by Gizzi, John
"It took 26 years for San Francisco Democrats to finally take over the party in the House. But they did it."
So says longtime Capitol Hill GOP operative Lawrence Casey about the election last week of far-left Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California as House minority leader.
Pelosi is the protege of the late, radical Democratic Rep. Phil Burton, whose district she inherited. The pivotal moment in Burton's career came in 1976, when he lost the race for House majority leader by one vote to Rep. Jim Wright (D.-Tex.), who went on, a decade later, to succeed the late Rep. Tip O'Neill (D.-Mass.) as speaker of the House. The outcome of that 1976 leadership race was a shock. Burton was a liberal icon and, as the late John Jacobs wrote in his much-praised biography of the Californian, A Rage for Justice, "Never before had anyone of the left combined Burton's ideological commitment, love of combat, and operational ability to get things done."
But the Democrats turned Burton back, Jacobs concluded, because they were obviously nervous about giving such a confrontational leftist such a high profile in their party. Wright, on the other hand, had a relatively conservative record that included opposition to civil rights and support for the Vietnam War and the oil depletion allowance.
But this time around, the Democrats have picked a confrontational leftist.
On November 14, with only a handful of votes cast for moderate Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee, the House Democrats picked the far left Pelosi to succeed Rep. Richard Gephardt (Mo.) as their leader.
The daughter of late Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alessandro, who also served in the House of Representatives, Pelosi has been involved in Democratic politics in San Francisco since moving to that city in the early 1960s as a young housewife and mother. With Burton's backing, she became state party chairman and finance chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In a scene still described in San Francisco political circles, Pelosi got her congressional district in 1987 when an ailing Rep. Sala Burton, Phil's widow and successor, gave Pelosi her blessings from a hospital bed.
Rated a perfect 100% by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action and an anemic 4% from the American Conservative Union, the 62-year-old Pelosi has been predictably liberal on virtually ever major issue.
She opposed the Bush tax cuts and, on the campaign trail this fall, called for their repeal. She fought for the Clinton Administration's anti-business ergonomics rules, and against eliminating the death tax and any effort to decrease funding for the scandal-ridden National Endowment for the Arts. Pelosi even broke with Bill Clinton in 1996 when she joined about half the Democrats in the House to oppose eventual passage of the "tough love" welfare reform he signed into law.
Pelosi truly epitomizes the term "San Francisco Democrat." She backs abortion-on-demand, including partial-- birth abortions. She opposes a ban on human cloning and a ban on Food and Drug Administration funding for the abortion-inducing drug RU-486. But she is anti-choice when it comes to education and health care, voting against both school vouchers and Medical Savings Accounts.
She has voted against public display of the Ten Commandments and against a ban on the burning of the American Flag.
As congresswoman for San Francisco's heavily homosexual Castro District, Pelosi has long championed the agenda of the activist gay left As the Almanac of American Politics has noted, "On AIDS funding, Pelosi has used her Appropriations [Committee] seat to get money for victims and wants access to new therapies and drugs without regard to ability to pay; she got AIDS spending increased even in the Republican Congress" In September of last year, Pelosi backed an amendment to the District of Columbia appropriations bill that would have permitted the use of local funds to force the Boy Scouts of America to reinstate two gay leaders and compensate them with $50,000 each. (The measure was rejected by a vote of 243 to 173.) On July 13, 2000, she joined ten other House Democrats in signing a letter to President Clinton urging him to resign as honorary head of the Boy Scouts of America lest his office be seen "as giving implicit approval to this self-proclaimed intolerant policy [of excluding gays]."
At times, Pelosi's pro-homosexual activities go beyond simply voting. Much as mentor Burton became the highest elected official to ride in Gay Pride parades in San Francisco in the 1970s (when then-Mayor and now Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein declined to do so), Pelosi regularly appears and speaks at high-profile homosexual events. On June 27 of this year, for example, she rose on the House floor "in recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride in San Francisco" to pay tribute to Officer Jon D. Cook, the first openly homosexual San Francisco policeman to lose his life in the line of duty. She commemorated Gay Pride Week on June 23, 1998, with a speech on the House floor calling on the Senate to confirm friend and avowed homosexual James Hormel as ambassador to Luxemburg, hailing Hormel as "a great American" and a "patriotic American."
The lone issue on which Pelosi sides with most conservatives is trade with Red China. She has long led opposition to Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Beijing and she offered amendments aimed at conditioning PNTR on human rights reforms. But many pundits and local politicians attribute this stance less to any passion against Communist tyranny than to the fact that her district is home to a large and well-heeled Chinese-American community.
Pelosi does not show the same concerns about human rights reforms in Fidel Castro's Cuba. She supported the unsuccessful amendment pushed by Rep. Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y) to lift the economic embargo on Cuba.
And, although last week she called on Democrats to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with President Bush on national security, the new House Democratic leader had only weeks ago voted against the resolution authorizing him to take action against Iraq.
It is not hyperbole to label the election of Nancy Pelosi as House minority leader a historic turning point for the Democratic Party. Where they just barely avoided the characterization of "San Francisco Democrat" on their national banner in 1976, last leek the Democrats in Congress heartily embraced it.
It sure would ruin my day if the Wednesday after the election, I read "Pelosi is the new Speaker of the House!".
"However, I have yet to meet a real Republican who wants us to lose to learn a lesson.
'A true Republican has more sense than that.'
Amen! Only the pseudos and rinos from third parties believe that bs.
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Update: For those (like me!) who missed the mention of Strata-Sphere on Rush today the transcript is out. - End Update
I noticed a traffic spike coming from massive Google searches to finally determine from a Free Republic post that the Strata-Sphere got a mention on the first segment of Rush Limbaugh today. Perfect for a Friday the 13th! Thanks for the mention Rush, and welcome Rush fans - hope you find the site interesting.
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Update: I created a category just for the Harry Reid non-story so folks don’t have to go searching for my posts on the subject. Folks may find the posts on Foleygate interesting as well, especially the timeline we put together from blogger research and the occasionally informative media article.
Why hasn’t this story gotten any traction.
These quotes are from a Google archive.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, as the chief executive officer of the City and County of San Francisco, took what is clearly discretionary action by entering into the Conveyance Agreement for the Hunters Point Shipyard with the U.S. Navy. The Conveyance Agreement set a specific timetable for giving the City a portion of the Shipyard – Parcel A – as well as giving commercial development rights to Lennar/BVHP, a private, non-governmental organization.
According to the article, the agreement came a few weeks after the Navy sent Newsom a letter saying it was having doubts about going ahead with a January 2002 symbolic agreement that was announced with potentially embarrassing fanfare in Washington by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, then-Mayor Willie Brown and Navy Secretary Gordon England. The Chronicle reports that Mayor Newsom met on March 31 in the Capitol offices of Pelosi, who is the House minority leader and a member of his extended family – she is the aunt of his cousin and campaign treasurer, Laurence Pelosi.
Also in attendance were Navy Assistant Secretary Johnson, Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein “and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a big gun brought in by Pelosi to convince the Navy the time for delays had passed.
“Murtha, the powerful ranking Democrat on the House military appropriations subcommittee, made it clear to the Navy that he wanted a binding agreement signed by Wednesday. Another meeting was held in Pelosi’s offices Wednesday, minus Newsom, and the Navy signed the accord,” the Chronicle’s Edward Epstein wrote.
Nancy, Gavin and Laurence
Nepotism is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as political favoritism based on family relationships. In an email to the Bay View, Laurence Pelosi verifies that he was a senior executive at Lennar in March of 2004 at the time his cousin, Mayor Newsom – at the behest of his Aunt Nancy – signed the Shipyard Conveyance Agreement.
In December of 2002, in a public hearing before the Redevelopment Commission charged with civil rights violations and impingement on constitutional rights to access by media, the commission approved a Disposition and Development Agreement granting Lennar exclusive development rights for the Shipyard. Laurence Pelosi was a senior executive at Lennar at that time.
Laurence Pelosi is the son of Ronald Pelosi and Barbara Newsom. He is Gavin Newsom’s cousin and was the official treasurer for Newsom’s mayoral campaign. Laurence Pelosi is Congresswoman Pelosi’s nephew.
SBD
If you remember, the RNC sided with Ford in 1976, and supported George HW Bush in 1980. The RNC is against Randy Graf here in Arizona. We need to get Conservatives back in control. A change in control of the House might help rid the party of some RINOs
While I am hoping the Republicans win in November, a Pelosi controlled House may do more to destroy the Democrat party that anything the Republicans can do. Also, the House can do less damage to the country than the President.
Yep, even those who have already forgotten ALL that Dubya' has accomplished in 6 years of his tenure.
When Liberals have to bend the truth and preach doom and gloom as a political agenda, it is tough for even the most gullible to "feel" doom and gloom when things are as good as they are for us.
As was said on Rush yesterday, if the rats win the house( and I hope they don't ) Mrs. Clinton will have to answer for her nutty friends actions in 08. It may be a harbinger of bad things for her.
I agree, however not at the cost of giving the likes of Pelosi a shoe in to do it.
The only way to get conservatives back in control without repercussion in doing so is to be patient and let it happen slowly but surely.
We have been moving in the right direction and to lose that momentum via lack of patience will only slow down the process.
You are a wise man :) and I agree with you totally.
Miserable? No, just not consumed...
Election ain't over yet..
She might as well not start measuring for the drapes just now..
Thanks for more reasons why America does not need Pelosi as Speaker of the House.
The libs are truely an inbred group of crooks as per this thread.
Here's the really scary part. If she became Speaker of the House, she'd be second in line to the presidency.
So if something happened to both Bush and Cheney, we'd end up with President Nancy Pelosi.
Lets make sure that Pelosi has a severe case of Gavel Interuptus after the election in November.
What load of bs.
THE ABOVE MASS MURDER OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT AMERICANS WAS THE INHERITANCE OF 8 YEARS UNDER THE CLINTOONS.
This country can't stand another "Punish the Republicans by allowing the rats to gain power!"
I thought Der Schlick's tenure was just about sex and no big deal? /s
AMEN!
Well .. the polling data the MSM didn't tell you - the evangelicals are only blaming Foley .. not the GOP.
Therefore .. Foley is a non-issue. Dems haven't figured that out yet - but they will the day after the election.
Also .. like Rush told us .. if the DEMS LOSE this election, it means the MSM will also lose. And when the dems lose again in 2008 - the Clinton mystique will be over - AND THE MSM KNOWS IT. It has already been revealed by one brave liberal - "the MSM no longer controls the agenda". And .. the dems think they're going to win ..??
We have a grand opportunity to finally stick a dagger into the heart of this disgusting group of people .. and I think we're really going to do it. Rush keeps saying - everybody is going to be in for a HUGE surprise on election day.
And .. remember too that a major portion of the dem party has gone over the cliff to the left - and THEY WILL NOT BE VOTING FOR ANY DEM CANDIDATE WHO DOES NOT SUPPORT THEIR LEFTIST EXTREME VISION. I think the dems are in much more trouble than the repubs.
But .. since this election will also be a referendum on the MSM .. you can already see in the press that they are on a roll spewing more garbage about the repubs. It's just too obvious what they're doing.
I was watching FOX this morning and Greg was CYA'ing Reid's latest land scandal. He had some "legal" beagle and she tried to smooth it over and denied Reid was in any trouble. It's about time Reid got caught for all the dirty deals he's been doing in NV for years and years. Greg may be a hotshot pilot .. but he's lousy when it comes to convincing me DIRTY HARRY isn't dirty!
Thanks for your excellent summary.
Clintoon's term taught Americans who have a brain about the danger to our children, grand children, sons, daughters, spouses and other innocent Americans when the rats seize control.
That was the lesson I learned, and I voted for President Bush in 1992.
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