Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the likely new minority leader in the House of Representatives, serves on the executive committee of the socialist-leaning Progressive Caucus, a bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber.
“The importance of this find is quite relevant to the fact Obama, should he win is walking in with an established Socialist cadre already in position to implement his schemes against America.”
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59 Socialists in Congress – 2002
By Chuck Morse
Published 09. 6. 02 at 20:00 Sierra Time
On the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party, The Progressive Caucus is affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, which, in turn, is the American affiliate of the Socialist International. Congressional Caucus members, I would contend, should actually be called Socialists rather than Democrats.
Unlike their European counterparts, these homegrown American Socialist Congressmen try to refrain from showing their true authoritarian colors. Such displays would be too risky in an America that is still steeped in traditional freedoms. There are still enough of us out here who would boot them out of office if they revealed too much of their true stripe.
Socialists, like Communists, Nazis, Klansmen, or other political groups, rightfully enjoy the same constitutional protections as the rest of us. Unlike their more radical aforementioned counterparts however, the socialists believe in changing the system by “boring from within” rather than through illegal violence and sedition.
As such, they prefer legislation, often filled with deceptive legalese and passed through Congress by duplicitous means, as their choice of arms in their quest toward revolutionary goals.
Socialists are gradualists rather than extremists. They are slowly chipping away at our G-d given rights.
Freedom loving Americans would be well advised to keep a close eye on socialist Congressmen. While they may talk like the rest of us, especially when sojourning in their respective districts, they operate from a different paradigm.
If they decide to support a war against Iraq, for example, or any other intervention overseas, their motives would more likely be based on an agenda that seeks to entangle the US in a new world order than in protecting the interests of sovereign America.
As a matter of principle and as an article of faith, socialists support a socialist world government as an ultimate goal.
The method they employ is the gradual transfer of constitutional responsibilities from elected American legislatures to international agencies accountable to no one.
Socialists are apt to support such things as international standing armies, an international tax, the transfer of American capital to third world dictators, and the surrender of congressional responsibilities to the UN, the WTO, the IMF, UNESCO and now the International Criminal Court.
Whenever communistic protocols emerge out of a UN sponsored conference, as is always the case, and whenever such un-American protocols are rejected by a still largely patriotic Congress, the socialist congressmen and their allies will more than likely try to foist the protocol on the American people through a back door.
Socialists believe in sovereignty eroding entanglements abroad and big-state socialism at home. They support high taxes on working people with the money transferred to bureaucracies staffed by their friends.
They support a welfare state that oppresses poor people, especially minorities, who then become their constituents. They support left-wing judges who are willing to subvert the democratic power of Congress by making laws from the bench.
While they support mandatory public education, mandatory labor unions, mandatory racial quotas, land-grabbing environmental regulation, and thought control in the form of hate speech legislation, they turn around and become downright libertarian when it comes to pornography, abortion, sex, drugs, homosexuality, and other agendas that debauch the citizenry.
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59 Socialists in Congress – 2002
Following is the Sept. 2002 membership list of the Progressive Caucus:
Neil Abercrombie – Hawaii
Tammy Baldwin – Wisconsin
Xavier Becerra – California
David Bonior – Michigan
Corrine Brown – Florida
Sherron Brown – Ohio
Michael Capuano – Mass.
Julia Carson – Indiana
William “Lacy” Clay – Missouri
John Conyers – Michigan
Danny Davis – Illinois
Peter DeFazio – Oregon
Rosa DeLauro – Conn.
Lane Evans – Illinois
Eni Faleomavaega – Am Samoa
Sam Farr – California
Chaka Fattah – Penn.
Bob Filner – California
Barney Frank – Mass.
Luis Gutierrez – Illinois
Earl Hilliard – Alabama
Maurice Hinchey – New York
Jesse Jackson Jr. – Illinois
Sheila Jackson-Lee – Texas
Stephanie Tubbs Jones – Ohio
Marcy Kaptur – Ohio
Dennis Kucinich – Ohio
Tom Lantos – California
Barbara Lee – California
John Lewis – Georgia
Jim McDermott – Washington
James P. McGovern – Mass.
Cynthia McKinney – Georgia
Carrie Meek – Florida
George Miller – California
Patsy Mink – Hawaii
Jerry Nadler – New York
Eleanor Holmes Norton – D.C.
John Olver – Mass.
Major Owens – New York
Ed Pastor – Arizona
Donald Payne – New Jersey
Nancy Pelosi – California
Bobby Rush – Illinois
Bernie Sanders – Vermont
Jan Schakowsky – Illinois
Jose Serrano – New York
Hilda Solis – California
Pete Stark – California
Bennie Thompson – Miss.
John Tierney – Mass.
Tom Udall – New Mexico
Nydia Velazquez – New York
Maxine Waters – California
Diane Watson – California
Mel Watt – North Carolina
Henry Waxman – California
Paul Wellstone – Minnesota
Lynn Woolsey - California
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/746222/posts
From the Sierra Times, September 6, 2002
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Progressive Caucus, 2008
Current members
Bill Goold, Executive Director
Arizona
Ed Pastor (AZ-4)
Raul Grijalva (AZ-7)
California
Lynn Woolsey (CA-6) - Co-Chair
George Miller (CA-7) - Chairman, House Education and Labor Committee
Barbara Lee (CA-9) - Co-Chair
Pete Stark (CA-13)
Michael Honda (CA-15)
Sam Farr (CA-17)
Henry Waxman (CA-30) - Chairman, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
Hilda Solis (CA-32)
Diane Watson (CA-33)
Maxine Waters (CA-35)
Laura Richardson (CA-37)
Linda Sanchez (CA-39)
Bob Filner (CA-51) - Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee
Connecticut
Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)
Florida
Corrine Brown (FL-3)
Robert Wexler (FL-19)
Georgia
Hank Johnson (GA-4)
John Lewis (GA-5)
Hawaii
Neil Abercrombie (HI-1)
Mazie Hirono (HI-2)
Illinois
Bobby Rush (IL-1)
Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2)
Luis Gutierrez (IL-4)
Danny Davis (IL-7)
Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)
Phil Hare (IL-17)
Iowa
Dave Loebsack (IA-2)
Maryland
Elijah Cummings (MD-7)
Massachusetts
John Olver (MA-1)
Jim McGovern (MA-3)
Barney Frank (MA-4) - Chairman, House Financial Services Committee
John Tierney (MA-6)
Ed Markey (MA-7)
Mike Capuano (MA-8)
Michigan
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI-13) - Chairwoman, Congressional Black Caucus
John Conyers (MI-14) - Chairman, House Judiciary Committee
Minnesota
Keith Ellison (MN-5)
Mississippi
Bennie Thompson (MS-2) - Chairman, House Homeland Security Committee
Missouri
William Lacy Clay, Jr. (MO-1)
Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5)
New Jersey
Donald Payne (NJ-10)
New Mexico
Tom Udall (NM-3)
New York
Jerry Nadler (NY-8)
Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
Nydia Velazquez (NY-12) - Chairwoman, House Small Business Committee
Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
Charles Rangel (NY-15) - Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
Jose Serrano (NY-16)
John Hall (NY-19)
Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
Louise Slaughter (NY-28) - Chairwoman, House Rules Committee
North Carolina
Mel Watt (NC-12)
Ohio
Marcy Kaptur (OH-9)
Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
Oregon
Peter DeFazio (OR-4)
Pennsylvania
Bob Brady (PA-1) - Chairman, House Administration Committee
Chaka Fattah (PA-2)
Tennessee
Steve Cohen (TN-9)
Texas
Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
Vermont
Peter Welch (VT)
Washington
Jim McDermott (WA-7)
Wisconsin
Tammy Baldwin (WI-2)
Gwen Moore (WI-4)
Non-voting
Madeleine Bordallo (Guam)
Donna Christian-Christensen (Virgin Islands)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC)
Senate member
Bernie Sanders (VT)
Former members
Sherrod Brown (OH-12) - Elected to Senate
Lane Evans (IL-17) - Retired from Congress
Cynthia McKinney (GA-4) - Lost Congressional Seat
Major Owens (NY-11) - Retired from Congress
Nancy Pelosi (CA-8) - Left Caucus when Elected House Minority Leader
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH-11) - Died in 2008
Paul Wellstone (MN Senate) - Died in plane crash in 2002
wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_Caucus 2008
Pelosi's Socialist Ties "Question: If an international organization existed to carry the torch for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and if a person running for minority leader had past or present ties to such an organization, what are the chances the New York Times would find it irrelevant to the matter at hand?" asks Vazsonyi.
"None. Zero. Nada.
"Double standards: Do you remember the Austrian nationalist Joerg Haider? He had no such affiliation. Yet the mere possibility that he might harbor sympathies for National Socialist ideas sufficed to make him, and the country in which he holds office, an international pariah.
"The Socialist International carries the torch for Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin. Pay no attention to the desperate attempts by socialists to distance themselves from Stalin. For our purposes, it suffices to observe that every single tenet of the Socialist International is the exact opposite of the principles upon which America was founded, and which define the U.S. Constitution.
"For our purposes, it suffices also to observe that members of the U.S. Congress are required to furnish an oath whereby they will preserve, protect, and defend said Constitution.
"DSA/USA, the 'Democratic Socialists of America' are the U.S. arm of the Socialist International. They share the symbol of the fist holding the rose, and they share the tasks to be accomplished — in our case, an altogether different America.
"Some time ago — the date is missing from the descriptions — 58 members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed a subdivision of the Democratic Socialists of America and called it the Progressive Caucus. Their statement of purpose, as well as their membership list, formed an integral part of the dsausa Web site (www.dsausa.org). The membership list appeared on the screen with the continuous background of the fist holding the rose, should anyone have missed the connection with the Socialist International."
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