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San Francisco's far-left Pelosi will lead Democrats in House
Human Events ^ | 18 November 2002 | John Gizzi

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.


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KEYWORDS: farleftpelosi; nancypelosi; pelosi; pelosiantiamerica
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To: Grampa Dave

If Democrats take over the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi will not just be the first female Speaker of the House.

She will be the richest.

By far.

The liberal Center for Responsive Politics pegs Pelosi's net worth as being somewhere between $14,746,108 and $55,085,000.

Gee, remember how libs got all over Gingrich for his $2 million book advance? Of course, no one said squat when Hillary took an $8 million book advance.

Pelosi and her husband have vast real estate holdings in San Francisco, where the liberals cry all the time for affordable housing for the working class.


61 posted on 10/14/2006 8:32:13 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Grampa Dave

You're welcome!


62 posted on 10/14/2006 8:32:47 AM PDT by CyberAnt
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To: george76

Culture of corruption

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2006/10/pelosi-richest-speaker-ever.html


63 posted on 10/14/2006 8:35:21 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Grampa Dave
How many of these so called pseudo conservatives are Electronic Brownshirt Trolling Moles paid by George $oreA$$,

I don't know guy, but me and the First lady will crawl naked across broken glass during a hurricane to vote this November.

5.56mm

64 posted on 10/14/2006 8:35:50 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Grampa Dave
That was the lesson I learned, and I voted for President Bush in 1992.

He was the ONLY viable leader.

It took 2 non-leaders in an election to remove GHWB from office.

It's funny, I recall the sister of a girlfriend I had in '92 and she was a very stout proponent of ousting GHWB via Clinton.

We discussed this scenario and even before Clinton was elected I said to her "mark my words, if Clinton gets elected you will see corruption and disarray like you have never seen before in government".

"Remember me and my words for my insight if he is elected".

I wonder if she remembered?

I haven't seen her since.

65 posted on 10/14/2006 8:39:03 AM PDT by EGPWS (Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Good Morning! ;-)
We already know this was not true, is not true, and will not be true in the future. PTL!


66 posted on 10/14/2006 8:42:44 AM PDT by LadyPilgrim ((Jesus is real, He will never fail...I will serve him now, and thoughout all eternity! ))
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To: M Kehoe
I don't know guy, but me and the First lady will crawl naked across broken glass during a hurricane to vote this November.

May the glass be "plexy", you feel no shame with your attire, and the hurricane doesn't achieve cat 2 status. ; )

67 posted on 10/14/2006 8:42:49 AM PDT by EGPWS (Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
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To: george76

Pelosi and her husband have at least one winery and are invested in some high flying restaurants. Both of which are anti union.

Isn't it amazing how the MSM ignores the really super rich rats: Burkle, $oreA$$, Moi Teressa Hunt Kerry, Finestein, Boxer, Pelosi, the Kennedy's. Also, they are so white, they look like bleach ads.


68 posted on 10/14/2006 8:45:17 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: EGPWS
8^)

5.56mm

69 posted on 10/14/2006 8:47:02 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

"I don't know guy, but me and the First lady will crawl naked across broken glass during a hurricane to vote this November."

This is not a pretty mental picture :), but we will do the same this November even in California.


70 posted on 10/14/2006 8:47:13 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: EGPWS

One of my female relatives on my side and her husband voted for PeroRat to teach us a lesson in 1992. We haven't spoken very much since 9/11.


71 posted on 10/14/2006 8:49:01 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave
One of my female relatives on my side and her husband voted for PeroRat to teach us a lesson in 1992.

Basic human intuition should make one realize that wasting a vote for emotional gratification doesn't work after what happened in '92.

The emotional voting should be left for the lib's who wouldn't know pragmatism if it smacked them in the face.

72 posted on 10/14/2006 8:55:06 AM PDT by EGPWS (Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
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To: george76; Liz; Milhous; LS

Wow George, I just read through this link.

http://donsurber.blogspot.com/2006/10/pelosi-richest-speaker-ever.html

Amazing how the rats have their drugged out and dumbed down voters believing they are the party of the poor.


73 posted on 10/14/2006 8:55:44 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: EGPWS

What is amazing is how many of the PeroRat voters in 1992, still believe that they did a great thing by enabling the Clintoons to seize power for 8 years.

Now they want us to swallow the same dumb pills and repeat that disaster by not voting this November.


74 posted on 10/14/2006 8:57:57 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: Grampa Dave
Now they want us to swallow the same dumb pills and repeat that disaster by not voting this November.

IMO, they would be more productive if they were to tote binoculars and keep watch for winged swine.

75 posted on 10/14/2006 9:01:15 AM PDT by EGPWS (Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
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To: Grampa Dave

Thanks.

Not much action over here :

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1719204/posts


76 posted on 10/14/2006 9:02:31 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: EGPWS

"IMO, they would be more productive if they were to tote binoculars and keep watch for winged swine."

Another great line on this thread! BOL!


77 posted on 10/14/2006 9:03:23 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (There's a dwindling market for Marxist Homosexual Lunatic wet dreams posing as journalism)
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To: yobid

"what an embarrassment it would be if they take over"

what a disgusting, revolting, intolerable turn of events that would be. collectively, they are like a barrel of putrescence.


78 posted on 10/14/2006 9:03:29 AM PDT by ripley
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To: Grampa Dave
Pelosi and her husband have at least one winery and are invested in some high flying restaurants. Both of which are anti union.

GASP!

You mean that liberal Pelosi is money driven and not conviction driven when it comes to unions?

79 posted on 10/14/2006 9:04:02 AM PDT by EGPWS (Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
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To: Grampa Dave

I liked this line :

" Speaking of crooks...William Jefferson, D-La., ranked 149th among House members with a net worth of $842,006 to $1,730,000.

Don’t know if that included his $90,000 in frozen assets. "


80 posted on 10/14/2006 9:04:12 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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