Posted on 10/14/2006 6:48:53 AM PDT by Grampa Dave
San Francisco's far-left Pelosi will lead Democrats in House by Gizzi, John
"It took 26 years for San Francisco Democrats to finally take over the party in the House. But they did it."
So says longtime Capitol Hill GOP operative Lawrence Casey about the election last week of far-left Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California as House minority leader.
Pelosi is the protege of the late, radical Democratic Rep. Phil Burton, whose district she inherited. The pivotal moment in Burton's career came in 1976, when he lost the race for House majority leader by one vote to Rep. Jim Wright (D.-Tex.), who went on, a decade later, to succeed the late Rep. Tip O'Neill (D.-Mass.) as speaker of the House. The outcome of that 1976 leadership race was a shock. Burton was a liberal icon and, as the late John Jacobs wrote in his much-praised biography of the Californian, A Rage for Justice, "Never before had anyone of the left combined Burton's ideological commitment, love of combat, and operational ability to get things done."
But the Democrats turned Burton back, Jacobs concluded, because they were obviously nervous about giving such a confrontational leftist such a high profile in their party. Wright, on the other hand, had a relatively conservative record that included opposition to civil rights and support for the Vietnam War and the oil depletion allowance.
But this time around, the Democrats have picked a confrontational leftist.
On November 14, with only a handful of votes cast for moderate Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. of Tennessee, the House Democrats picked the far left Pelosi to succeed Rep. Richard Gephardt (Mo.) as their leader.
The daughter of late Baltimore Mayor Thomas D'Alessandro, who also served in the House of Representatives, Pelosi has been involved in Democratic politics in San Francisco since moving to that city in the early 1960s as a young housewife and mother. With Burton's backing, she became state party chairman and finance chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In a scene still described in San Francisco political circles, Pelosi got her congressional district in 1987 when an ailing Rep. Sala Burton, Phil's widow and successor, gave Pelosi her blessings from a hospital bed.
Rated a perfect 100% by the liberal Americans for Democratic Action and an anemic 4% from the American Conservative Union, the 62-year-old Pelosi has been predictably liberal on virtually ever major issue.
She opposed the Bush tax cuts and, on the campaign trail this fall, called for their repeal. She fought for the Clinton Administration's anti-business ergonomics rules, and against eliminating the death tax and any effort to decrease funding for the scandal-ridden National Endowment for the Arts. Pelosi even broke with Bill Clinton in 1996 when she joined about half the Democrats in the House to oppose eventual passage of the "tough love" welfare reform he signed into law.
Pelosi truly epitomizes the term "San Francisco Democrat." She backs abortion-on-demand, including partial-- birth abortions. She opposes a ban on human cloning and a ban on Food and Drug Administration funding for the abortion-inducing drug RU-486. But she is anti-choice when it comes to education and health care, voting against both school vouchers and Medical Savings Accounts.
She has voted against public display of the Ten Commandments and against a ban on the burning of the American Flag.
As congresswoman for San Francisco's heavily homosexual Castro District, Pelosi has long championed the agenda of the activist gay left As the Almanac of American Politics has noted, "On AIDS funding, Pelosi has used her Appropriations [Committee] seat to get money for victims and wants access to new therapies and drugs without regard to ability to pay; she got AIDS spending increased even in the Republican Congress" In September of last year, Pelosi backed an amendment to the District of Columbia appropriations bill that would have permitted the use of local funds to force the Boy Scouts of America to reinstate two gay leaders and compensate them with $50,000 each. (The measure was rejected by a vote of 243 to 173.) On July 13, 2000, she joined ten other House Democrats in signing a letter to President Clinton urging him to resign as honorary head of the Boy Scouts of America lest his office be seen "as giving implicit approval to this self-proclaimed intolerant policy [of excluding gays]."
At times, Pelosi's pro-homosexual activities go beyond simply voting. Much as mentor Burton became the highest elected official to ride in Gay Pride parades in San Francisco in the 1970s (when then-Mayor and now Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein declined to do so), Pelosi regularly appears and speaks at high-profile homosexual events. On June 27 of this year, for example, she rose on the House floor "in recognition of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender pride in San Francisco" to pay tribute to Officer Jon D. Cook, the first openly homosexual San Francisco policeman to lose his life in the line of duty. She commemorated Gay Pride Week on June 23, 1998, with a speech on the House floor calling on the Senate to confirm friend and avowed homosexual James Hormel as ambassador to Luxemburg, hailing Hormel as "a great American" and a "patriotic American."
The lone issue on which Pelosi sides with most conservatives is trade with Red China. She has long led opposition to Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Beijing and she offered amendments aimed at conditioning PNTR on human rights reforms. But many pundits and local politicians attribute this stance less to any passion against Communist tyranny than to the fact that her district is home to a large and well-heeled Chinese-American community.
Pelosi does not show the same concerns about human rights reforms in Fidel Castro's Cuba. She supported the unsuccessful amendment pushed by Rep. Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y) to lift the economic embargo on Cuba.
And, although last week she called on Democrats to stand "shoulder to shoulder" with President Bush on national security, the new House Democratic leader had only weeks ago voted against the resolution authorizing him to take action against Iraq.
It is not hyperbole to label the election of Nancy Pelosi as House minority leader a historic turning point for the Democratic Party. Where they just barely avoided the characterization of "San Francisco Democrat" on their national banner in 1976, last leek the Democrats in Congress heartily embraced it.
Pelosi is even more of a San Francisco Pro Gay/Anti American.
Yet we have pseudo conservatives on this board telling us not to vote in the upcoming election to teach Republicans a lesson.
How many of these so called pseudo conservatives are Electronic Brownshirt Trolling Moles paid by George $oreA$$, CREW and other anti America $oreA$$ financed proxies against a strong America.
If we listen to these clowns, Pelosi et al will destroy this country.
I can't imagine a worse nightmare than Nancy Pelosi being the speaker of the house with a Rat controlled Senate to back her up.
Yet, we have the mentally ill on this board wanting us to not vote for Republicans to allow this Pro Gay/Communist/Islamofacist to really hurt America and our families.
"Deny them with all your might! What an embarrassment it would be if they take over."
Beyond embarrassment, Pelosi and her hoard of anti America Rats would be very dangerous for the survival of this country and our family members.
Election of these anti America rats would be a signal to every al Qaeda leader that America no longer has the stomach to fight them.
Other tyrants like Kim and the despots of our hemisphere would be encouraged to do whatever they wanted to.
Anyone who welcomes and wants Pelosi as Speaker of the House is not a conservative. They are as dangerous as Pelosi. At least she is honest about what she will do to us and our country.
Just think of the entertainment value...
I'm withya Dave!
There is no entertainment value when in real life watching your country destroyed.
If I want entertainment I will rent a DVD. When we are through watching it, we can send it back.
We can't do that when Pelosi destroys what is good in this country.
Got to hit rock bottom, before any changes will happen...
Thanks as usual.
Pictures of you on your website with your friends like GW, are great!
yeah...it is real entertainment to have tax increases...cut & run form iraq and start impeachment proceeding against Bush!!!
it sounds as if you will vote a straight lib/dem line!!!
when the economy stumbles/market retreats/unemployment rises...we can look to you enjoying the "entertainment!!!"
Now you're getting it...
Perhaps Pelosi will do more to help Republicans than Jimmy Carter did. Also, under Pelosi, the Democrats will be in control of the House for only 2 years.
Common sense...someone is awake this a.m...thanks...
Hmmph!
When I come across the postings of these pseudo conservatives, I see the wall behind my computer screen until I move on to another posting. ; >
I would advise the Demos not to count their chickens too soon. This election is far from being a done thing.
4 years old-the pundits will be wrong again
Though I would hate to see Nancy take control, she is somewhat limited in what she can do. At best, she will have a small majority. The Republicans can create gridlock for 2 years.
Pelosi will not be Speaker. Let me repeat: Pelosi will not be Speaker. If by some disaster the Dems manage to win the House, expect the DNC to unleash a smear campaign against Pelosi and anoint Hoyer as the next Speaker. The Democrats would never allow a woman to have such a high position of power.
"If the RATS gain control of Congress, a part of me hopes the unappeasables have their taxes raised and countless illegals move into their neighborhoods. After all, they wanted to teach us all a lesson."
Forget that. Why would I want that misery to be inflicted on the rest of us.
I gave (Steele, Allen, Spencer, and a couple of others) and I will vote for Allen. But your charicature of "pseudo conservatives" is silly. The republicans, apart from national security and gun rights, are a mixed bag. They are just lucky that the democrats are so lame.
"Got to hit rock bottom, before any changes will happen..."
Sounds like severe depression combined with Bush DeRangement Syndrome. Sorry you are so miserable. I'm not and most of my friends and family members aren't.
However, your dream of Pelosi to teach us a lesson would make us really miserable.
Important fact left out Pelosi bio. Pelosi was a graduate of Trinity College. The college has was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame a distinctly Roman Catholic college. Pelosi appears to be promoting issues/ideals that are contradictory to many of the Roman Catholic faith.
"yeah...it is real entertainment to have tax increases...cut & run form iraq and start impeachment proceeding against Bush!!!
it sounds as if you will vote a straight lib/dem line!!!
when the economy stumbles/market retreats/unemployment rises...we can look to you enjoying the "entertainment!!!"
Amazing isn't it, and these people pray for the above to go with their dream girl, Pelosi.
Superman with X Ray vision!:)
More insanity from the lovers of Pelosi to hurt the Republicans.
Keep posting this stuff.
Liberals and malcontents bring out the best in me. /snicker
Sure!
Incredible.
Love it. Superman Freeper!
We are a mixed bag.
However, I have yet to meet a real Republican who wants us to lose to learn a lesson.
Rush has covered this bs very well in the last two weeks.
That mentality gave us 8 years of the Clintoons.
In private, she probably labels herself as a recovering Catholic, which is a license to do whatever is the opposite of what was taught to her.
I think I will pass on posting a picture of me and the RINO.
Better than 22% inflation, gas lines, 13% mortgage rates, a slumping market, and loss of credibility internationally?
I noticed that comment on your home page. :)
Things change sometimes don't they.
Oh what a lovely way to start my day by seeing this headline :(
I really don't think you have to worry about Freepers staying home on election day. When it comes right down to it, good Conservatives will get out and hold their noses and vote for the sorry RINOs just to keep Nancy Pelosi and her surgically altered face out of the Speaker's chair.
A true Republican has more sense than that.
Most of us are Broken Glass voters.
In 46 years of voting, I have yet to see a Rat worth a vote or an election to sit out to teach my party a lesson.
There is a simple reality of political life. We don't win elections by losing. That bs as Rush has hit on the past 2 weeks is part of the Rat strategy to drive our voters away. The rats can't win elections with their ideas. They need republicans to sit out an election because of some pseudo ego problem.
It sure would ruin my day if the Wednesday after the election, I read "Pelosi is the new Speaker of the House!".
"However, I have yet to meet a real Republican who wants us to lose to learn a lesson.
'A true Republican has more sense than that.'
Amen! Only the pseudos and rinos from third parties believe that bs.
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Update: For those (like me!) who missed the mention of Strata-Sphere on Rush today the transcript is out. - End Update
I noticed a traffic spike coming from massive Google searches to finally determine from a Free Republic post that the Strata-Sphere got a mention on the first segment of Rush Limbaugh today. Perfect for a Friday the 13th! Thanks for the mention Rush, and welcome Rush fans - hope you find the site interesting.
Cheers, AJStrata
Update: I created a category just for the Harry Reid non-story so folks don’t have to go searching for my posts on the subject. Folks may find the posts on Foleygate interesting as well, especially the timeline we put together from blogger research and the occasionally informative media article.
Why hasn’t this story gotten any traction.
These quotes are from a Google archive.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, as the chief executive officer of the City and County of San Francisco, took what is clearly discretionary action by entering into the Conveyance Agreement for the Hunters Point Shipyard with the U.S. Navy. The Conveyance Agreement set a specific timetable for giving the City a portion of the Shipyard – Parcel A – as well as giving commercial development rights to Lennar/BVHP, a private, non-governmental organization.
According to the article, the agreement came a few weeks after the Navy sent Newsom a letter saying it was having doubts about going ahead with a January 2002 symbolic agreement that was announced with potentially embarrassing fanfare in Washington by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, then-Mayor Willie Brown and Navy Secretary Gordon England. The Chronicle reports that Mayor Newsom met on March 31 in the Capitol offices of Pelosi, who is the House minority leader and a member of his extended family – she is the aunt of his cousin and campaign treasurer, Laurence Pelosi.
Also in attendance were Navy Assistant Secretary Johnson, Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein “and Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., a big gun brought in by Pelosi to convince the Navy the time for delays had passed.
“Murtha, the powerful ranking Democrat on the House military appropriations subcommittee, made it clear to the Navy that he wanted a binding agreement signed by Wednesday. Another meeting was held in Pelosi’s offices Wednesday, minus Newsom, and the Navy signed the accord,” the Chronicle’s Edward Epstein wrote.
Nancy, Gavin and Laurence
Nepotism is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as political favoritism based on family relationships. In an email to the Bay View, Laurence Pelosi verifies that he was a senior executive at Lennar in March of 2004 at the time his cousin, Mayor Newsom – at the behest of his Aunt Nancy – signed the Shipyard Conveyance Agreement.
In December of 2002, in a public hearing before the Redevelopment Commission charged with civil rights violations and impingement on constitutional rights to access by media, the commission approved a Disposition and Development Agreement granting Lennar exclusive development rights for the Shipyard. Laurence Pelosi was a senior executive at Lennar at that time.
Laurence Pelosi is the son of Ronald Pelosi and Barbara Newsom. He is Gavin Newsom’s cousin and was the official treasurer for Newsom’s mayoral campaign. Laurence Pelosi is Congresswoman Pelosi’s nephew.
SBD
If you remember, the RNC sided with Ford in 1976, and supported George HW Bush in 1980. The RNC is against Randy Graf here in Arizona. We need to get Conservatives back in control. A change in control of the House might help rid the party of some RINOs
While I am hoping the Republicans win in November, a Pelosi controlled House may do more to destroy the Democrat party that anything the Republicans can do. Also, the House can do less damage to the country than the President.
Yep, even those who have already forgotten ALL that Dubya' has accomplished in 6 years of his tenure.
When Liberals have to bend the truth and preach doom and gloom as a political agenda, it is tough for even the most gullible to "feel" doom and gloom when things are as good as they are for us.
As was said on Rush yesterday, if the rats win the house( and I hope they don't ) Mrs. Clinton will have to answer for her nutty friends actions in 08. It may be a harbinger of bad things for her.
I agree, however not at the cost of giving the likes of Pelosi a shoe in to do it.
The only way to get conservatives back in control without repercussion in doing so is to be patient and let it happen slowly but surely.
We have been moving in the right direction and to lose that momentum via lack of patience will only slow down the process.
You are a wise man :) and I agree with you totally.
Miserable? No, just not consumed...
Election ain't over yet..
She might as well not start measuring for the drapes just now..
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