"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
This article confirms for me that the dems will take this election as a sign Americans are now all socialists. They made this mistake in 1992 and tried to foist Hillarycare down our throats. Lets hope they try it again and lets hope that out of these ashes strong leaders emerge.
My guess is that we will see more doing so.
61 Democrats have joined Mr. Sanders' "Progressive Caucus", which has these as it founding principles:
1. Fighting for economic justice and security for all;
2. Protecting and preserving our civil rights and civil liberties; and
3. Promoting global peace and security.
4. Environmental Protection & Energy Independence
and these as its goals (aka the "Progressive Promise"):
- Fighting for Economic Justice and Security in the U.S. and Global Economies
- To uphold the right to universal access to affordable, high quality healthcare for all.
- To preserve guaranteed Social Security benefits for all Americans, protect private pensions, and require corporate accountability.
- To invest in America and create new jobs in the U.S. by building more affordable housing, re-building America’s schools and physical infrastructure, cleaning up our environment, and improving homeland security.
- To export more American products and not more American jobs and demand fair trade.
- To reaffirm freedom of association and enforce the right to organize.
- To ensure working families can live above the poverty line and with dignity by raising and indexing the minimum wage.
- Protecting and Preserving Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- To sunset expiring provisions of the Patriot Act and bring remaining provisions into line with the U. S. Constitution.
- To protect the personal privacy of all Americans from unbridled police powers and unchecked government intrusion.
- To extend the Voting Rights Act and reform our electoral processes.
- To fight corporate consolidation of the media and ensure opportunity for all voices to be heard.
- To ensure enforcement of all legal rights in the workplace.
- To eliminate all forms of discrimination based upon color, race, religion, gender, creed, disability, or sexual orientation.
- Promoting Global Peace and Security
- To honor and help our overburdened international public servants – both military and civilian.
- To bring U. S. troops home from Iraq as soon as possible.
- To re-build U.S. alliances around the world, restore international respect for American power and influence, and reaffirm our nation’s constructive engagement in the United Nations and other multilateral organizations.
- To enhance international cooperation to reduce the threats posed by nuclear proliferation and weapons of mass destruction.
- To increase efforts to combat hunger and the scourge of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other infectious diseases.
- To encourage debt relief for poor countries and support efforts to reach the UN’s Millennium Goals for Developing Countries.
- Environmental Protection and Energy Independence
- To free ourselves and our economy from dependence upon imported oil and shift to growing reliance upon renewable energy supplies and technologies, thus creating at least three million new jobs, cleansing our environment, and enhancing our nation’s security.
- To promote environmental justice in affirmation that all people have an inherent right to a healthy environment, clean air, and clean water wherever we live, work, and relax.
- To change incentives in federal tax, procurement, and appropriation policies to:
- Speed commercialization of solar, biomass, and wind power generation, while encouraging state and local policy innovation to link clean energy and job creation;
- Convert domestic assembly lines to manufacture highly efficient vehicles, enhance global competitiveness of U.S. auto industry, and expand consumer choice;
- Increase investment in construction of “green buildings” and more energy-efficient homes and workplaces;
- Link higher energy efficiency standards in appliances to consumer and manufacturing incentives that increase demand for new durable goods and increase investment in U.S. factories;
- To eliminate environmental threat posed by global warming and ensuring that America does our part to advance an effective global problem-solving approach.
- To expand energy-efficient transportation choices by increasing investment in synthesized networks, including bicycle, local bus and rail transit, regional high-speed rail and magnetic levitation rail projects.
- To preserve prudent public interest regulations that encourage sustainable growth and investment, ensure energy diversity and system reliability, protect workers and the environment, reward consumer conservation, and support an expanding marketplace that rewards the commercialization of energy-efficient technologies.
The 62 Democrats who are in this caucus are
Office of U.S. Representative Neil Abercrombie 1502 Longworth Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/abercrombie/ Phone: 202-225-2726
Office of U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin 1022 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://tammybaldwin.house.gov Phone: 202-225-6942
Office of U.S. Representative Xavier Becerra 1119 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D. C. 20515 Website: http://becerra.house.gov Phone: 202-225-6235
Office of U.S. Representative Madeleine Z. Bordallo 427 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/bordallo Phone: 202-225-1188
Office of U.S. Representative Corrine Brown 2444 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/corrinebrown Phone: 202-225-0123
Office of U.S. Representative Sherrod Brown 2332 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/sherrodbrown Phone: 202-225-3401
Office of U.S. Representative Michael Capuano 1530 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/capuano Phone: 202-225-5111
Office of U.S. Representative Julia Carson 1535 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.juliacarson.house.gov Phone: 202-225-4011
Office of U.S. Representative Donna Christensen 1510 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/christian-christensen/ Phone: 202-225-1790
Office of U.S. Representative William "Lacy" Clay 131 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/clay Phone: 202-225-2406
Office of U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver 1641 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/cleaver Phone: 202-225-4535
Office of U.S. Representative John Conyers 2426 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/conyers Phone: 202-225-5126
Office of U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings 2235 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/cummings Phone: 202-225-4741
Office of U.S. Representative Danny Davis 1222 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/davis Phone: 202-225-5006
Office of U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio 2134 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://defazio.house.gov Phone: 202-225-6416
Office of U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro 2262 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/delauro Phone: 202-225-3661
Office of U.S. Representative Lane Evans 2211 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/evans Phone: 202-225-5905
Office of U.S. Representative Sam Farr 1221 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/farr Phone: 202-225-2861
Office of U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah 2301 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/fattah Phone: 202-225-4001
Office of U.S. Representative Bob Filner 2428 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/filner Phone: 202-225-8045
Office of U.S. Representative Barney Frank 2252 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/frank Phone: 202-225-5931
Office of U.S. Representative Raul Grijalva 1440 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/grijalva Phone: 202-225-2435
Office of U.S. Representative Luis Gutierrez 2367 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/gutierrez Phone: 202-225-8203
Office of U.S. Representative Maurice Hinchey 2431 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/hinchey Phone: 202-225-6335
Office of U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson, Jr. 2419 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/jackson Phone: 202-225-0773
Office of U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee 2435 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.jacksonlee.house.gov Phone: 202-225-3816
Office of U.S. Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones 1009 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/tubbsjones/ Phone: 202-225-7032
Office of U.S. Representative Marcy Kaptur 2366 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.kaptur.house.gov Phone: 202-225-4146
Office of U.S. Representative Carolyn Kilpatrick 1610 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/kilpatrick Phone: 202-225-2261
Office of U.S. Representative Dennis Kucinich 1730 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://kucinich.house.gov Phone: 202-225-5871
Office of U.S. Representative Tom Lantos 2413 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/lantos Phone: 202-225-3531
Office of U.S. Representative Barbara Lee 1724 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://lee.house.gov Phone: 202-225-2661
Office of U.S. Representative John Lewis 343 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/johnlewis Phone: 202-225-3801
Office of U.S. Representative Ed Markey 2108 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/markey Phone: 202-225-2836
Office of U.S. Representative Jim McDermott 1035 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/mcdermott Phone: 202-225-3106
Office of U.S. Representative James McGovern 430 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/mcgovern Phone: 202-225-6101
Office of U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney 320 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/mckinney Phone: 202-225-1605
Office of U.S. Representative George Miller 2205 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/georgemiller Phone: 202-225-2095
Office of U.S. Representative Gwen Moore 1408 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/gwenmoore Phone: 202-225-4572
Office of U.S. Representative Jerry Nadler 2334 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/nadler Phone: 202-225-5635
Office of U.S. Representative Eleanor Holmes-Norton 2136 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/norton Phone: 202-225-8050
Office of U.S. Representative John Olver 1111 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/olver Phone: 202-225-5335
Office of U.S. Representative Major Owens 2309 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/owens Phone: 202-225-6231
Office of U.S. Representative Ed Pastor 2465 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/pastor Phone: 202-225-4065
Office of U.S. Representative Donald Payne 2209 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/payne Phone: 202-225-3436
Office of U.S. Representative Charles Rangel 2354 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://rangel.house.gov Phone: 202-225-4365
Office of U.S. Representative Bobby Rush 2416 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/rush Phone: 202-225-4372
Office of U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders 2233 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://bernie.house.gov Phone: 202-225-4115
Office of U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky 1027 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/schakowsky Phone: 202-225-2111
Office of U.S. Representative Jose Serrano 2227 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/serrano Phone: 202-225-4361
Office of U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter 2469 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.slaughter.house.gov Phone: 202-225-3615
Office of U.S. Representative Hilda Solis 1725 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://solis.house.gov Phone: 202-225-5464
Office of U.S. Representative Pete Stark 239 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/stark Phone: 202-225-5065
Office of U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson 2432 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://benniethompson.house.gov Phone: 202-225-5876
Office of U.S. Representative John Tierney 120 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/tierney Phone: 202-225-8020
Office of U.S. Representative Tom Udall 1414 Longworth House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.tomudall.house.gov/ Phone: 202-225-6190
Office of U.S. Representative Nydia Velazquez 2241 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/velazquez Phone: 202-225-2361
Office of U.S. Representative Maxine Waters 2344 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/waters Phone: 202-225-2201
Office of U.S. Representative Diane Watson 125 Cannon House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/watson Phone: 202-225-7084
Office of U.S. Representative Mel Watt 2236 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.house.gov/watt Phone: 202-225-1510
Office of U.S. Representative Henry Waxman 2204 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://www.henrywaxman.house.gov Phone: 202-225-3976
Office of U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey 2263 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Website: http://woolsey.house.gov Phone: 202-225-5161