HARD LEFT TO FULL COMMUNISIM, ( THEIR PELOSI CHOICE SPEAKS A THOUSAND WORDS TO WHAT THE DNC ARE!!!)
Posted on 11/11/2002 10:38:28 AM PST by Jacob Kell
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.
Until 1999, the website of the Progressive Caucus was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America. Following an expose of the link between the two organizations in WorldNetDaily, the Progressive Caucus established its own website under the auspices of Congress. Another officer of the Progressive Caucus, and one of its guiding lights, is avowed socialist Rep. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent.
The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in the eyes of most Americans.
"Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work," explains an organizing document of the DSA. "The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals."
Nevertheless, the goal of the Democratic Socialists of America has never been deeply hidden. Prior to the cleanup of its website in 1999, the DSA included a song list featuring "The Internationale," the worldwide anthem of communism and socialism. Another song on the site was "Red Revolution" sung to the tune of "Red Robin." The lyrics went: "When the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there'll be no more lootin' when we start shootin' that Wall Street throng. ..." Another song removed after WorldNetDaily's expose was "Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie?" The lyrics went: "Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We'll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie."
In the last three years, the Progressive Caucus has been careful to moderate its image for mainstream consumption.
"The members of the Progressive Caucus share a common belief in the principles of social and economic justice, non-discrimination and tolerance in America and in our relationships with other countries," the group's statement of purpose explains.
Most of the members of the Progressive Caucus, including Pelosi, opposed authorizing the war on Iraq. In fact, most Democrats in the House opposed the war resolution. House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt and 81 other House Democrats supported the move.
"I have seen no evidence or intelligence that suggests that Iraq indeed poses an imminent threat to our nation." Pelosi said in voting against the resolution. "If the administration has that information, they have not shared it with the Congress."
The latest issue of the liberal New Republic bemoans Pelosi's ascendancy to top leadership in her party because of her extreme left positions, calling the Democrat's position "dangerous."
"The ideological vacuum atop the post-Sept. 11 Democratic Party will inevitably be filled," the New Republic said in its trademark TRB column. "And, if it is filled by Nancy Pelosi and Dennis Kucinich, the United States will no longer be a 50-50 nation; it will be a 40-60 nation for a generation."
Pelosi, 62, last year was elected by her Democratic colleagues to be the House Democratic Whip – making her the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Congress even before her expected rise to the role of House minority leader. She also serves on the House Intelligence Committee.
Pelosi represents a liberal congressional district, taking in most of San Francisco. Her votes against the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq and in support of such domestic initiatives as needle exchange programs for AIDS sufferers may not be far out of step with her district constituency. But some suggest the nation's pulse may be another matter.
Pelosi was 47 before she won her first election, after raising five children with her businessman husband, Paul. But she has been involved in politics all her life. Her father was a New Deal congressman from Maryland and later the mayor of Baltimore. Her brother also served as Baltimore's mayor. She was hand-picked to run for Congress by the dying Rep. Sala Burton, whose seat Pelosi won in a special election in 1987.
She has never lost an election.
How can we find out what politician's are a member of this org.?
If these "Progressives" think they can repackage their liberalism with a more appealing name, I think they may be mistaken. I didn't see one political advertisement (in the Washington DC - NYC/NJ/CT corridor) that proudly proclaimed a liberal politician or the "liberal" or "democrat" policies and/or values of that politician. Talk about the Third Rail of politics: I'd say it's the word "liberal"!
Traditional American song, sung in rounds to the tune of "Frere Jacques".
Are you sleeping, Are you sleeping,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie,
And when the revolution comes,
We'll kill you all with knives and guns,
Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie
Archived Progressive Caucus pages from 1996 Democratic Socialists of America web site
Check out the Rogues Gallery (the Prog. Caucus membership list).
Some Prog. Caucus pages were never archived, but all exsiting pages have a link back to the Democratic Socialists of America home page from which the Prog. Caucus site was originally hosted (see upper left link of any archived Prog. Caucus web page).
By the way, the Prog. Caucus link to Democratic Socialists of America is memorialized for all time courtesy of The Internet Archive, www.http://webdev.archive.org/
The most extensive reference to the D'Alesandro story is, not surprisingly, from the Baltimore Sun. It even has two quotes from her brother, Tommy D'Alesandro, III, who was, like his father, a Mayor of Baltimore. But none of those stories makes any mention that the City, under the D'Alesandros, was as crooked as a dog's hind leg.
None of those stories mentions what I did in my last column, that a rape charge and several corruption charges were squashed or dismissed against the younger Tommy D'Alesandro, by prosecutors controlled by the family and with the compliance of judges controlled by the family.
The Baltimore Sun article, while studiously ignoring the corruption in Baltomore at the time, does spend time and ink praising Nancy Pelosi for "learning constituent services" in working for her father and her brother. Given Pelosi's background of absolute loyalty to the Democrat "leaders" regardless of what they have done, it is no surprise that she took the lead in the House defending the conduct of Bill Clinton, and also no surprise that she was the only woman in the House to defend Gary Condit.
Click below, or visit the FR thread of this name, to see what I wrote about the person who will become Minority Leader for the Democrats in the House, tomorrow morning. My article's title is: "This Just In: Bush Defeats Clinton." The Pelosi comments are near the end.
Congressman Billybob
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