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The Democratic Socialist Party of the United States of America
Modern Conservative ^ | June 19, 2008

Posted on 06/19/2008 10:04:40 AM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional

The Democratic Socialist Party of the United States of America

Some people think I'm too strident an anti-leftist. Some people say I'm wrong to place the Democrats on the continuum of the left, with their position on that continuum nothing more than a measure of the distance they are from socialism's ideological provenance.

Sorry, but the Democrats are proving that belief right more and more each day:

House Democrats call for nationalization of refineries

House Democrats responded to President's Bush's call for Congress to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling. This was at an on-camera press conference fed back live.
Among other things, the Democrats called for the government to own refineries so it could better control the flow of the oil supply.

Democrats Skip Right Over Socialism; Land Squarely In The Land Of Karl And Hugo

Waters responded, in part, "And guess what this liberal would be all about. This liberal will be about socializing … uh, um. …"
The congresswoman paused to collect her thoughts.
"Would be about, basically, taking over, and the government running all of your companies. …"
The oil executives responded, according to Fox News, by saying they've seen this before, in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela.

The Chavistas in our backyard

Here’s what Rep. Hinchey said:
“Should the people of the United States own refineries? Maybe so. Frankly, I think that’s a good idea. Then we could control the amount of refined product much more capably that gets out on the market…”
“So if there’s any seriousness about what some of our Republican colleagues are saying here in the House and elsewhere about improving the number of refineries, then maybe they’d be willing to have these refineries owned publicly, owned by the people of the United States...

(Excerpt) Read more at modernconservative.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; changwecanbelievein; communist; democrat; democratparty; dsa; electionpresident; elections; energy; gasprices; marxist; mccain; nationalization; nobama08; obama; oil; shadowparty; socialism; socialist
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1 posted on 06/19/2008 10:04:41 AM PDT by thinkingIsPresuppositional
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

On the money. America needs an Revolution.


2 posted on 06/19/2008 10:07:08 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: gunnedah

>>>America needs an Revolution.<<<

I don’t want this. Revolutions tend to be awful things, filled with carnage and cruelty. It looks like the Left will continue to push us in that direction, though.


3 posted on 06/19/2008 10:13:47 AM PDT by redpoll
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

They are little Nazi wannabes. Consider this together with their campaign to reinstate the “Fairness Doctrine”, purely Nazi attempt to put an end to dissent and free speech.

Start practicing saying “Seig Heil” like you mean it. If you don’t they will come and get you in the middle of the night.


4 posted on 06/19/2008 10:13:53 AM PDT by centurion316 (Democrats - Supporting Al Qaida Worldwide)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
Call them what they are...abject marxists.

...and they want a militiant, anti-American, maxist as President.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

5 posted on 06/19/2008 10:16:46 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

Our entire govenment is moving Left, farther from it’s founders and closer to Europe. Only the American distaste from taxes and economic stagnation will stop the decline. If only we had leaders to halt the trend.


6 posted on 06/19/2008 10:19:11 AM PDT by Wiseghy ("You want to break this army? Then break your word to it.")
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To: Jeff Head

To me the scariest thing about an Obama candaticy is from what I have seen is that there are enough fools and idiots to elect him.

Your assessment may vary.


7 posted on 06/19/2008 10:19:45 AM PDT by sport
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To: sport
Only if we fail to get out the vote. Here's my take:

Obama's ardent followers, including the DNC and the MSM, are not swayed by logic, reason, or truth. To them, regardless of his positions, his gaffes, his past, or his associations, he is an idol and they are the worshipful idolaters.


Nothing you can say or do will convince these people otherwise...


Because I am the one they and I have been waiting for...and I am lovin' it.

Those wild eyed people represent the millions of Americans raised in the government day-care and indoctrination centers we call public schools who did not have, or would not listen to, parents and others who tried to counterweight the garbage they heard at school...who have been raised on 60 second sound bite time spans and know no better.

You have other tens of millions on the dole who will vote for him regardless of position because he promises to keep pilfering the public largess for them.

Still othes of millions will vote for him simply because he is black and they refuse to look into his background and associations.

Other millions will vote for him because they know exactly who he is and what he represents and agree with his anti-American positions.

The first three are all what is termed, useful idiots, a term coined by Lennin for the dupes he got to support him.

Against this it is left to us to educate, arouse, and amass the tens of millions of Americans who understand and hold fast to the foundational principles our constitutional republic rests upon...many of them the bitter, rural Americans clinging to their guns and religion that Obama so arrogantly spoke of.

Note this comparison:


A populsitic, charismatic, self-serving individual has a way of mesmerizing foolish people looking for an idol...then and now.

Barack Hussein Obama is the apex of the hate-America, domestic enemy in this country. His election as president would be the greatest coup any enemy has ever scored against this country and could easily lead to the worst, horrific disaster in our nation's history.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

8 posted on 06/19/2008 10:22:21 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: gunnedah

Notice to my fellow Americans.

At what point did the Colonists revolt in the 1700’s?

Right now, our government is doing the following:

1) Proposing nationalizing oil production
2) Proposing nationalizing health care
3) Allows no immigration laws to be enforced and refuse to deport them en masse
4) Allows habeas corpus to terrorist with the same rights as citizens
5) The presumptive next President is a Marxist who not only wants all the above, but wants more and more taxes on the employed to pay for the unemployed and UN-led funds.

The media is complicit and we need to do something.


9 posted on 06/19/2008 10:22:52 AM PDT by wac3rd (LIBS GONE WILD)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

Looks like your demonrats are the kinds of our old fashioned european socialist parties which are in deep trouble/crisis since they very recently cut their old and strong ties with communists and then can’t elaborate any more consistent thought and speech since they lost their fake fantasmatic “religion”.
At the moment with Obama, seems that US dems are still using the old far left ,third-worldist,extrem environmentalist,gay-activist,pacifist...agenda as spouting the same anti-Bush/McCAIN hate speech that dhimmyrats have been nailing again and again...

Dems are still swimming in troubled water and are not clear at all on their links with far left activists


10 posted on 06/19/2008 10:27:47 AM PDT by Ulysse
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To: Jeff Head

Sorry Al !
One more time!
Everything is lovely
When you start to roam;
The birds are singin’, the day that you stray,
But later, when you are further away,
Things won’t seem so lovely
When you’re all alone;
Here’s what you’ll keep saying
When you’re far from home:

Obammy,
Obammy,
The sun shines east, the sun shines west,
I know where the sun shines best—
Obammy,
My little Obammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Alabammy.
I’m comin’,
Sorry that I made you wait.
I’m comin’,
Hope and trust that I’m not late, oh oh oh
Obammy,
My little Obammy,
I’d walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
Obammy! Oh oh oh...

(SPOKEN) Obammy...
My little Obammy.
The sun shines east— the sun shines west—
I know where— the sun shines best!
It’s on my Obammy I’m talkin’ about, nobody else’s!
(SUNG) My little Obammy,
My heartstrings are tangled around Obammy.
(SPOKEN) Obammy— Obammy, I’m comin’—
I’m so sorry that I made you wait!
Obammy— Obammy, I’m comin’!
Oh God, I hope I’m not late!
Look at me, Obammy! Don’t you know me?
I’m your little baby!
(SUNG) I’d walk a million miles
For one of your smiles,
Obammy!


11 posted on 06/19/2008 10:29:05 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
National Democratic Party of Germany America
12 posted on 06/19/2008 10:29:22 AM PDT by polymuser (Those who believe in something eventually prevail over those who believe in nothing.)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Opps! Missed one. “Alabammy” should also be “Obammy!”


13 posted on 06/19/2008 10:31:43 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: redpoll
I don’t want this. Revolutions tend to be awful things, filled with carnage and cruelty. It looks like the Left will continue to push us in that direction, though.

I sense a tea party will be held soon.
14 posted on 06/19/2008 10:33:22 AM PDT by Bobkk47
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To: Bobkk47

>>>I sense a tea party will be held soon.<<<

Sounds like a man with some common sense.


15 posted on 06/19/2008 10:39:24 AM PDT by redpoll
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
The founders of this country gave us the 2nd amandment exactly for one thing.. In case this republic ever became a democracy.. Even THEN they knew that the current situation could happen.. The BAD GUYS becoming or having gained majority power.. At least in times past a few democrats were good people..

NOT so anymore.. to even BE a democrat belies traitorous intent.. or enabling stupidity.. or like George Bush or John McLaim are globalists.. Democrats and other globalists have the SAME AGENDA.. which shows that plans A,B,C, and D of Obama, CLinton, Bush or Mclaim are not choices at all.. But are choices for the same end result..

A revolution is only FIX to this gambit.. no matter the bloody carnage that it would provide.. Freedom ALWAYS costs blood.. The Only question IS..... are their ANY that will SPEND their OWN blood to ensure this freedom.. Its looking like their are MANY willing to spend OTHERS blood but not their own(or their familys blood).. Which means the revolution WILL NOT HAPPEN..

16 posted on 06/19/2008 10:44:14 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional; traviskicks; LucyT; ExTexasRedhead; ml/nj

By their proposals to nationalize refineries - as well as medicine and other industries - today’s Democrats in Congress are shedding whatever remained of their loyalty to the Constitution which they swore to uphold. They are completely out in the open now as naked socialists, and their candidate for president meshes very well with the predominant ideology of the party.


17 posted on 06/19/2008 10:45:40 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
maybe they’d be willing to have these refineries owned publicly, owned by the people of the United States...

Hey, Rep Hinchey (BIG D), can I sell the part that I "own"?

18 posted on 06/19/2008 10:47:28 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

Don’t cross out the term democrat. They are indeed National Socialist Democrats but National Socialists fits them as well.

Seriously, the Germans outlawed the National Socialists after WWII so why didn’t we outlaw our National Socialists in 1865 after our Civil War?


19 posted on 06/19/2008 10:47:42 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: redpoll
I sense a tea party will be held soon

This modern day tea party needs to be directed at America's most dangerous enemy ... the complicit main stream media

20 posted on 06/19/2008 10:48:35 AM PDT by clamper1797 (GWB was shock and awe ... Nobama is shuck and jive)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

I think it was Huey Long who said that the Democrats and the Communists should share their convention to save money.


21 posted on 06/19/2008 10:51:10 AM PDT by buck jarret
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To: Jeff Head

I have never seen much difference between either of these two National Socialist parties except that Germany outlawed their Nazis where we keep electing them.


22 posted on 06/19/2008 10:51:41 AM PDT by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: socialismisinsidious

Please ping to your ping list!


23 posted on 06/19/2008 10:52:00 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

While I agree with you, I think you are missing the most important point there is.

Which party has held office for all but twelve of the last 45 years?

Who has appointed 7 of the current 9 SCOTUS justices?

Who solidified and adopted the one theater level of military preparedness, as U.S. policy?

Who is tryng to legalize between 20 and 35 million illegal immigrants?

Who wants to allow still more millions to come over on an expanded work permit program?

Who wants to allow the chain immigration that will result in?

Who calls Mexico our best friend?

Who has allowed upwards of 30,000 Saudi Nationals to enter the U.S. on Student Visas after just 19 of them took down the World Trade Center?

Who has presided over a Navy that is less than half the size of what it was under Reagan?

Which party’s leader is proposing we destroy more of our nuclear arsenal, as much as he possibly can?

Which party’s leader is proposing we pull all of our tactical battlefield nukes out of Europe?

Which party’s leader has voiced support for LOST in the past?

Which party’s leader has voiced support for us joining the International Criminal Court?

Which party’s leader thinks global warming is real, and we need to go green?

Which party’s leader wants to close Gitmo?

Which party’s leader wants to put an end to water boarding?

Which party’s leader wants to extend Geneva Convention rights that are reserved for lawful combatants to terrorists?

Need I go on?

Our founding fathers would have strung John McCain up! It would have hunted down the leaders of the Republican party and arrested them on sight.

We’re prepared to vote McCain into the Oval Office, and rubber stamp what the party leaders have been doing to this nation for decades, with only one eight year respit.

We ought to be ashamed of ourselves.

Is the Democrat party traiterous and craven? Hell yes! Is the Republican party traiterous and craven? I believe it to be.

We are hanging by a thread IMO, and if we don’t do something different than what we have been doing, this nation WILL NOT continue to exist in it’s present form.


24 posted on 06/19/2008 10:56:06 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: DoughtyOne
this nation WILL NOT continue to exist in it’s present form

I believe ... that IS the plan

25 posted on 06/19/2008 11:04:50 AM PDT by clamper1797 (GWB was shock and awe ... Nobama is shuck and jive)
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To: DoughtyOne

Geesh, do I agree with you. Party politics have led us to the path of destruction. Even conservatives are willing to accept socialism lite for the party.

I fear it is too late. This dope McCain is not going to save anyone’s day. He will collaborate with our socialist enemies. Business as usual for him.

Destruction is on the way in the US, and we are going to vote for it one way or the other.

I believe am am more angry at us than I am with the people who are involved. People do horrible things because they can. Oh, yes they do!


26 posted on 06/19/2008 11:06:03 AM PDT by indylindy (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: clamper1797

As do I...

Take care.


27 posted on 06/19/2008 11:09:12 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: DoughtyOne

Stay armed ... you will probably need to in the near future


28 posted on 06/19/2008 11:10:36 AM PDT by clamper1797 (GWB was shock and awe ... Nobama is shuck and jive)
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To: indylindy
Thanks IndyLindy. We've come to a very sad fate this year.

We have two choices as Citizens of the United States.

We embrace rebirth and a renewed dedication to the founding principles, limited government, sovereignty, and individual rights or...

We agree to see our nation destroyed.

All I see is apathy everywhere I look.

29 posted on 06/19/2008 11:13:49 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: redpoll
I don’t want this. Revolutions tend to be awful things, filled with carnage and cruelty. It looks like the Left will continue to push us in that direction, though.

None of us wants to have to endure that. But it is a fact that the horror of war and bloodshed and death is what keeps "government" in check and revolutions very far apart on the timeline.

In our instance the timeline has a huge gap in it and it is becoming very obvious that we are due. Our government is almost totally overrun with the very filth that we stood vigilant against just 30 years ago. With krap talk that many of the communistic Democrats are spouting about "socializing" medical care, "nationalizing" large industries, etc. which they are quite serious about tells volumes about what could very well be the only way to save this Republic. That is why we see this in our most central Documents of existence...

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

They were not giving us permission, they were giving us an order. It is our duty and responsibility to the debit we owe to them for their sacrifice.

30 posted on 06/19/2008 11:14:33 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: clamper1797

That was my take after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. It hasn’t changed.


31 posted on 06/19/2008 11:16:20 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: TLI

Spot on analysis. Sad but true. Next, I expect the Left to begin accusing the “conservative extremists” of being the “real terrorists.” Jonah Goldberg has outlined the process pretty well. It’s like watching a thunderstorm moving in, isn’t it?


32 posted on 06/19/2008 11:21:17 AM PDT by redpoll
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To: Jeff Head

Just ordered my bumper stickers - can’t wait to get them on my truck!


33 posted on 06/19/2008 11:21:29 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
No one can ever be too anti-leftist.
34 posted on 06/19/2008 11:22:49 AM PDT by BooksForTheRight.com (Fight liberal lies with knowledge. Read conservative books and articles.)
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To: redpoll
It’s like watching a thunderstorm moving in, isn’t it?

From the top of a tall building no less. It has been headed our way for quite some time.

35 posted on 06/19/2008 11:25:30 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: DoughtyOne

Well remember back to the Communist objectives to take over the US of 1964. They would infiltrate one or both parties in America. The Dems were were easy, but they have now succeeded in taking over both parties.

People have become too competitive and totally ignorant as to what it takes to appreciate and preserve freedom. Freedom comes before money and material things. Seems they are going to find out how little it all means when your freedom has been taken.

I just cannot vote for McCain. He is not a person who has the best interests of the people of America in mind. We already know what Obama is, but the people who are being fooled are the McCain voters who think they are getting the green light special with McCain.


36 posted on 06/19/2008 11:27:09 AM PDT by indylindy (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional

Read how industry may be Nationalized, but not by the Communist model.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2031070/posts


37 posted on 06/19/2008 11:29:57 AM PDT by stockpirate (McCain used the d word, drill for oil. If we hammer this issue we can win and take the Congress)
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To: Jeff Head

Very accurate comparison of Obama’s and national-SOCIALIST’s fans...
A huge wave with conservatives and all the sensible-sane americans might wash out the hysterical crowds...
Let’s roll


38 posted on 06/19/2008 11:30:26 AM PDT by Ulysse
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To: indylindy

Our perceptions are aligned on these matters.

It’s sad to be able to see what is taking place, and not be able to do anything about it.


39 posted on 06/19/2008 11:31:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: 2nd amendment mama
Thanks. They'll go out in the mail tomorrow!


40 posted on 06/19/2008 11:39:10 AM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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To: indylindy
Oh yeah? .
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41 posted on 06/19/2008 1:01:12 PM PDT by patriot08
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To: gunnedah

See my tag line. ‘nuff said.


42 posted on 06/19/2008 1:08:29 PM PDT by Noumenon (Time for Atlas to shrug - and pick up a gun.)
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To: patriot08

Both are unthinkable. You are going to be spoon fed.


43 posted on 06/19/2008 1:27:58 PM PDT by indylindy (I had almost forgotten that McCain is the nominee. Too bad I was reminded.)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional; Jeff Head; patriot08; potlatch; martin_fierro; devolve; Grampa Dave; ...
Wake up or be awakened!




44 posted on 06/19/2008 1:44:33 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Donate to FR anytime at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: thinkingIsPresuppositional
Progressives are individuals who are ostensibly working within the republic and its capitalist system, while their real goal is to subvert it, weakening its foundation, the Constitution of the United States of America, and amending it to reflect the Marxist-Socialist philosophy described as Progressivism.

Progressives contend that Progressivism is rooted in three core principles:  "Fighting for economic justice and security for all; Protecting and preserving civil rights and civil liberties; and Promoting global peace and security."  That's what they say -- it sounds great -- but it's not what they intend.

Everything you need to know about Progressives and Progressivism can be learned from visiting the Progressive Democrats of America's Advisory Board page which features the bios of 25 of the leftiest leftists in America.

In the United States House of Representatives, these people all belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus, established in the early 1990's.  The members of the Progressive Caucus also belong to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a confederation of socialists formed in 1983 when a splinter group of the Socialist Party (Michael Harrington's Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, DSOC) merged with the Students for a Democratic Society's (SDS) splinter group, the New American Movement (NAM).

The main aim of DSA was to convert the Democratic Party into a social democratic organization.  to that end, during the early 1990's, the DSA hosted the Progressive Caucus' website, which contained the names of its members.  When the word got out, all the information regarding the Progressive Caucus vanished.  These congress critters don't want you to know their true colors (red).

The DSA has many celebrity members, including feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, black activist Cornel West, and libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky.  It is also the chief American member group of the Socialist International, which includes the British Labour Party and the French Parti Socialiste.

Officers

Barbara Lee (California), Co-Chair
Lynn Woolsey (California), Co-Chair

Directors

Bill Goold, Executive Director

Current members

Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii)
Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin)
Xavier Becerra (California)
Madeleine Bordallo (Guam)
Bob Brady (Pennsylvania)
Corrine Brown (Florida)
Mike Capuano (Massachusetts)
Julia Carson (Indiana)
Donna Christian-Christensen (Virgin Islands)
Yvette Clarke (New York)
William Lacy Clay, Jr. (Missouri)
Emanuel Cleaver (Missouri)
Steve Cohen (Tennessee)
John Conyers (Michigan) - chairman, House Judiciary Committee
Elijah Cummings (Maryland)
Danny Davis (Illinois)
Peter DeFazio (Oregon)
Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut)
Keith Ellison (Minnesota)
Eni Faleomavaega (American Samoa)
Sam Farr (California)
Chaka Fattah (Pennsylvania)
Bob Filner (California) - chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee
Barney Frank (Massachusetts) - chairman, House Financial Services Committee
Raul Grijalva (Arizona)
Luis Gutierrez (Illinois)
John Hall (New York)
Phil Hare (Illinois)
Maurice Hinchey (New York)
Mazie Hirono (Hawaii)
Jesse Jackson, Jr. (Illinois)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (Texas)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas)
Hank Johnson (Georgia)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio) - chairwoman, House Ethics Committee

Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (Michigan)
Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) - candidate for President of the United States
Tom Lantos (California) - chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee

Barbara Lee (California) - Co-Chair
John Lewis (Georgia)
Dave Loebsack (Iowa)
Carolyn Maloney (New York)
Ed Markey (Massachusetts)
Jim McDermott (Washington)
Jim McGovern (Massachusetts)
George Miller (California) - chairman, House Education and Labor Committee

Gwen Moore (Wisconsin)
Jerry Nadler (New York)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)
John Olver (Massachusetts)
Ed Pastor (Arizona)
Donald M. Payne (New Jersey)
Charles Rangel (New York) - chairman, House Ways and Means Committee

Bobby Rush (Illinois)
Jan Schakowsky (Illinois)
Jose Serrano (New York)
Louise Slaughter (New York)
Hilda Solis (California)
Pete Stark (California)
Bennie Thompson (Mississippi) - chairman, House Homeland Security Committee

John Tierney (Massachusetts)
Tom Udall (New Mexico)
Nydia Velazquez (New York) - chairwoman, House Small Business Committee

Maxine Waters (California)
Diane Watson (California)
Mel Watt (North Carolina)
Henry Waxman (California) - chairman, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

Peter Welch (Vermont)
Lynn Woolsey (California) - Co-Chair

Senate member

Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

Former members

Sherrod Brown (Ohio) - elected to Senate
Lane Evans (Illinois) - retired from Congress
Cynthia McKinney (Georgia) - lost Congressional seat
Major Owens (New York) - retired from Congress
Nancy Pelosi (California) - left caucus when elected House Minority Leader
 Supporting organizations
 


Institute for Policy Studies
The Nation Magazine
Moveon.org
National Priorities Project
Jobs with Justice Campaign
Peace Action
Americans for Democratic Action
Progressive Democrats of America

Co-sponsoring the kickoff event

NAACP
ACLU
Progressive Majority
League of United Latin American Citizens
Rainbow/Push Coalition
National Council of La Raza
Hip Hop Caucus
Human Rights Campaign
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
National Hip Hop Political Convention


45 posted on 06/19/2008 1:49:22 PM PDT by Beckwith ('Typical White Person')
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To: DoughtyOne

Helluva post.


46 posted on 06/19/2008 2:41:57 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the girly-man population. Have the McCainiacs spayed or neutered.)
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To: JoJo Gunn

Thank you. I appreciate it.


47 posted on 06/19/2008 2:49:15 PM PDT by DoughtyOne ( I say no to the Hillary Clinton wing of the Republican party. Not now or ever, John McCain...)
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To: Lady Jag

48 posted on 06/19/2008 4:02:55 PM PDT by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

You got style!


49 posted on 06/19/2008 4:08:13 PM PDT by Lady Jag (Donate to FR anytime at https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Lady Jag

That photo was taken in obamas office in Houston, Texas. It makes me ashamed.


50 posted on 06/19/2008 4:22:57 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (I)
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