Posted by
Doug Fiedor on Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:54:33 PM
Vote Republican or Suborn Socialism
-- Your Choice
Some ask, do we want to see Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) become
Speaker of the House next year? If not, they
say, we must all vote Republican.
They’re correct, of course.
The problem is, there is a great deal more to this problem than just Nancy
Pelosi. As Minority Leader, she’s but
the most obvious of the potential problems awaiting a liberal takeover of the
House.
As a start, let's just talk about those Members of Congress who
actually attend socialist meetings -- Nancy Pelosi is but one -- and identify some
of those who would be in major leadership positions if the Democrats win the
House in November.
Over the past few years, the Democratic Socialists of
America (DSA), and its arm in Congress, the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
have sometimes bragged publicly that they have the same agenda. What the DSA admits, but the Progressive
Caucus has not outwardly disclosed yet, is that their socialist goals include
the downfall of our capitalist form of government and much stronger federal government
controls on the American people.
With the help of House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi,
Progressive Caucus socialists cover most major House committees and many of
them are "ranking minority members" -- which means they would chair
the committee if the Democrats win a majority in the House in November.
For instance, picture that idiot from Detroit, John Conyers (D-MI), as chairman of the Judiciary Committee,
or the contentious Henry Waxman (D-CA) as chairman of the Committee on
Government Reform. Anyone watching any
of the hearings over the past few years knows both of them wander between
dangerous and useless.
Socialist sympathizer Charlie Rangel (D-NY) would get the chairmanship
of the powerful Ways and Means Committee and Maxine Waters (D-CA) would chair
the subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy. What new fiscal hell would they initiate?
Barney Frank (D-Mass), whose friend and roommate ran a
homosexual outcall prostitution service out of Frank's home, would chair the House
Financial Services Committee. But
wait! Major Owens -- famous for his many
one hour diatribes about how so many thousands of slaves were tossed overboard
when the slave ships were bringing them here that the sharks still today follow
the ships’ paths looking for more -- might chair the Workforce Protection Subcommittee. Or, picture Jerry Nadler (D-NY) trying to
chair either the House Judiciary Committee or the House Transportation
Committee. He’s senior minority member
on both.
Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a card carrying socialist and
founding member of the Progressive Caucus, is ranking minority member of the
House Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Committee and so would chair
that.
Progressive Caucus member Bernie Thompson (D-MS) is ranking minority
member of the Committee on Homeland Security and so would get that. Louise Slaughter (D-NY) is ranking minority member
of the powerful Rules Committee, which could be interesting with her as
chair. Pete Stark (D-CA) would chair the
Health Subcommittee of Ways and Means.
Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) would chair the House Small Business
Committee. Diane Watson (D-CA) would
chair the Subcommittee on Energy & Resources. Mel Watt (D-NC) would probably get the
Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) is ranking
minority member on the Tactical Air and Land Forces Subcommittee so would get
that. Madeleine Bordallo, the Delegate
from Guam, is ranking minority member on the Committee on Small
Business’ Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Government Oversight and would
become chair. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) would
chair the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee. The chair of the House Committee on
Transportation and Infrastructure would go to Peter DeFazio (D-OR). Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) would get the
Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and
Claims, which would certainly become interesting.
Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), the co-chair of the Congressional
Progressive Caucus, would chair the House Subcommittee on Education Reform. But she is
also a senior minority member of the House Committee on Science so might
get that instead. Co-chair of the
Congressional Progressive Caucus, Barbara Lee (D-CA), might even get to chair a
committee of some sort.
And so it goes, right on down the line. The cold hard fact we must remember this
November is that there are 62 members of the Progressive Caucus in the House --
card carrying socialists, one and all.
That is, there are 61 Democrat-socialists and one independent-socialist
in the House who outwardly align themselves with the domestic arm of the
Socialist International. Most of the
group have been in Congress long enough to become ranking members on their
respective committees.
Which means that, if by some chance, Democrats win the House
this November, Nancy Pelosi -- also a Progressive Caucus member -- becomes the
first outwardly socialist Speaker of the House (and third in line for President
of the United States) and her Progressive Caucus (socialist) members would be
in place to chair many of the important House committees.
Can we allow that to happen?
This means that if you vote for ANY House Democrat this year
it is the same as putting these practicing socialists closer to controlling the
whole of the United States House of Representatives.
As can be seen, if we do not vote Republican, we will be
suborning socialism. So . . . now, who is
going to pull which lever at the polling place next November?
A few of the so-called Republicans running for Congress are
not a whole lot better than the Democrats.
But, they are better, overall.
And, as a group, Republicans will be much easier for us to deal with.
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NOTE: The Congressional Progressive Caucus web site
is now located on the House computer system, but that is a relatively recent
move. Originally, the Progressive Caucus
was started by Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a card-carrying Socialist Party
member. For many years, the Progressive
Caucus web site was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) /
Socialists International web site.
Later, when I published that information, the Progressive Caucus
attempted to disassociate itself from the most notorious of the socialist domestic
and international organizations. Really,
though, they are all still joined and profess exactly the same platforms.
The links below are for those
who wish to check my facts:
The Congressional Progressive
Caucus can be found at:
http://bernie.house.gov/pc/
DSA is the largest US affiliate of the Socialist International,
which is a worldwide organization of 140 socialist, social democratic
and labor parties. The SI has the distinction of being
the largest political organization in the world, so they say:
http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html