FLYING THEIR POLITICAL COLORS

Fiedor Report On the News #296 ^ | 11-17-02 | Doug Fiedor

[forest]

Last Thursday, House Democrats elected Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as House Minority Leader. Pelosi won the minority leader position on a 177-29 vote.

That is, only 29 House Democrats voted against her. Clearly, 177 agree with her positions. This is a very important point. Because, now we can define, specifically, what the House Democrats are and what they stand for.

Money is the life-blood of politics. Like Hillary in the Senate, Pelosi capitalized on that. In so doing, Pelosi bought her position within the Democratic Party. According to Opensecrets.org(1), Pelosi set up her own PAC and quickly became a major campaign contributor to other candidates. Just through her PAC alone, she donated more than $1-million to other Democrats. She also gave another $200,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is the House Democrats' main fund-raising arm.

All that is legal, in a perverted Washington sort of way, so let's pass on that for now. This story gets much better.

Pelosi is also an officer in yet another group of interest: The Congressional Progressive Caucus(2). Fifty-some members of the House also belong to the Progressive Caucus and herein is part of what drives and defines the Democratic Party.

The Progressive Caucus is actually a part of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Their web page was even hosted by DSA till we (and others) exposed them a few years ago(3). There is still a copy available, too(4). Currently, their web page is hosted by the avowed socialist Rep. from Vermont, Bernie Sanders.

According to them: "DSA is the largest US affiliate of the Socialist International (SI), the worldwide organization of 140 socialist, social democratic and labor parties. The SI has the distinction of being the largest political organization in the world."

Some folks might correctly remember that the SI membership included well known politicians like Josef Stalin, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin, and Leon Trotsky. That probably explains why so many of the planks of the Communist Manifesto(5) are included in the Democratic Party's platform and are the expressed goals of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Again, they prove that with their own words. The think tank of the Progressive Caucus is The Progressive Challenge -- The Institute for Policy Studies(6). The progressive Challenge bills itself as: "Linking grassroots activists, scholars, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus toward a multi-issue movement for fairness and justice for all." It is also part of the DSA.

As their introduction states: "The Congressional Progressive Caucus, the Institute for Policy Studies and countless national and community organizations and citizens around the country have been fighting tirelessly for a Fairness Agenda for America -- for a redirecting of national priorities toward fairness and economic justice." Their "Fairness Agenda" comes as close to calling for the implication of all planks of the Communist Manifesto (those not already written into law) as they dare at the moment.

The Progressive Caucus and Progress Challenge support the Transnational Institute(7), which has yet another interesting take on socialism in the United States.

Among Nancy Pelosi's ideological views are everything one would expect from a socialist activist. She favors "abortion" at birth, a higher minimum-wage and higher CAFE standards but has opposed tax cuts of nearly every kind. She also opposed trade promotion authority, even though the California economy thrives on exports. Clearly, she is far to the left of 90% of the American population, which means this is going to be a very interesting two years to watch.

Now . . . here's where the fun comes in: Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elected to the leadership of the Democratic Party in the House. Which means, she was put forth by the membership to represent their ideology. We should remember that and depict her ideals and antics as representative of the Party as a whole.

Therefore, if once a month everyone reading this newsletter picked just one little aspect of any of her many deviations from her oath of office to support the Constitution as written and fired off a short letter to their local newspaper editor, the results would be phenomenal by 2004.

Clearly, this action by the House Democrats has given Republicans a great leg up in the next election. Still, we should all help spread the word to others who may not be paying close attention.

Meanwhile, thank your local Democrat. We greatly appreciate them finally marching under their correct colors.

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1. <http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_65.asp>

2. <http://bernie.house.gov/pc/>

3.<http://209.15.142.23/reports/headsup/hu85.htm>

4. <http://www.speakeasy.org/~dervish/members_of_the_progressive_caucus.htm>

5. <http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1848-CM/>

6. <http://www.ips-dc.org/netprogress/>

7. <http://www.tni.org/>

 

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[forest]

Read the main post. They belong to the socialist organizations. The links are at the end of the post.

[samtheman]

You bring up a good point. Liberals have successfully spun the historical fiction that the Nazi's where "conservative", when, in fact, The German Nazi Party was pure Socialism in action --- with some quirky racism thrown in. It did NOT kill more people than its more commonly-accepted-as-being-leftist neighbor, the Soviet Union --- it only did so in a more openly racist way.

Hitler, Stalin, Mao... all had one thing in common: love of Socialist Government.

[forest]

Very good. 8<))

[forest]

Hey, there. Take that stuff out to the alley. We don't need it here.

[paul51]

Bump

[forest]

I certainly hope you are correct in hoping parents will become disenchanted with the Democrats supporting their liberal homosexual line. I am a retired teacher that spent lots of time substituting. I hereby attest that the queers have an agenda and are showing their force to the school administration. I also state that the average school administration and faculty lean dangerously toward Socialism. It is no small wonder that home schooling is on the rise.

[CyberAnt]

"disenchanted ... with homosexual agenda"

I can tell you from fact, there are more and more homeschoolers in CA than most places, just because of this agenda. In fact, the state tried to shut it down by telling parents they were breaking the law by not allowing their children to go to school, but it didn't work. A State legislator stepped up to shut down the threat (which is all it was). There is no law being broken here. It was just the school districts were having a fit because so many children were leaving the school and it was lowering their funds.

More and more privatly funded schools are springing up all over San Diego County. It's great!!

[angry elephant]

What you don't seem to realize is that otherwise normal people fell in love with Josef Stalin. It was a truly pathological abusive relationship.

Gee, and isn't that what we have in this country with Klintoon's kneepadders?