Pelosi's Socialist Ties

Something the leftist media establishment doesn't want you to know: San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi's ties to socialism.

Writing in the Washington Times, Balint Vazsonyi notes that in a recent New York Times article about the soon-to-be House minority leader, there was not "a single mention of her executive position in the Progressive Caucus, and the latter's ties to the Socialist International."

"Question: If an international organization existed to carry the torch for Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, and if a person running for minority leader had past or present ties to such an organization, what are the chances the New York Times would find it irrelevant to the matter at hand?" asks Vazsonyi.

"Double standards: Do you remember the Austrian nationalist Joerg Haider? He had no such affiliation. Yet the mere possibility that he might harbor sympathies for National Socialist ideas sufficed to make him, and the country in which he holds office, an international pariah.

"The Socialist International carries the torch for Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, V.I. Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Josef Stalin. Pay no attention to the desperate attempts by socialists to distance themselves from Stalin. For our purposes, it suffices to observe that every single tenet of the Socialist International is the exact opposite of the principles upon which America was founded, and which define the U.S. Constitution.

"For our purposes, it suffices also to observe that members of the U.S. Congress are required to furnish an oath whereby they will preserve, protect, and defend said Constitution.

"DSA/USA, the 'Democratic Socialists of America' are the U.S. arm of the Socialist International. They share the symbol of the fist holding the rose, and they share the tasks to be accomplished — in our case, an altogether different America.

"Some time ago — the date is missing from the descriptions — 58 members of the U.S. House of Representatives formed a subdivision of the Democratic Socialists of America and called it the Progressive Caucus. Their statement of purpose, as well as their membership list, formed an integral part of the dsausa Web site (www.dsausa.org). The membership list appeared on the screen with the continuous background of the fist holding the rose, should anyone have missed the connection with the Socialist International."

After the Washington Times in November 1998 blew the whistle on the so-called "Progressive" Caucus, "action was taken to hide the true nature of the organization, and its membership list was eventually taken off the dsausa Web site."

Vazsonyi continues: "Rep. Nancy Pelosi has long been, and is now, a member of the executive committee of the Progressive Caucus. Her election as minority leader would firmly establish the link between the Democratic Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Socialist International.

"The U.S. Constitution places no restrictions on political creeds. There is no earthly reason why socialists could not be elected to Congress if the people so choose. There is a question of honesty, though. Candidates for office ought to put their cards on the table."

I'm still alive and kicking, and with a strong enough appetite to eat, swallow and digest crow. Grilled crow, roasted crow, raw crow .....I'm game. It is actually quite funny how words uttered long ago can come back and hit someone, and I am man enough not only to accept that I made a boo-boo but also to find the humor in all of this.

Let me just put it this way ....when i posted that in 2002 I really did not see Pelosi as having a Garter snake's chance at a Pentecostal Revival function, but time has indeed proved me wrong. Pelosi is not only Speaker, but the Democrats have taken over the House and the Senate. If you dredge around FreeRepublic you'll even find some posts I made where I said Hillary's chances of winning the White House were not just improbable but UTTERLY impossible.

Nowadays I have strong (frightful) doubts about that statement, and if you gave me enough alcohol I might even let lose a statement alluding to the fact that she may very well be the most likely presidential winner amongst the people who have thrown in their hats as of now (from both sides).

One year ago (let alone 2002) I would never even have thought of such a thing.

Anyways, I will eat my crow, and I will chew it fine. Although I am taking this as a lesson - a lesson that a LOT can change in a few short years, and a lesson that even pigs can fly with the dexterity of a Swallow and the speed of a Peregrine! A lesson that nothing really is impossible. And a lesson that Hillary may actually become president of these United States of America.

Which is why I am grateful that you reminded me of that post i made in 2002. It is actually a veritable lesson in the ways of the world, if ever there was one.

And it is also a warning. That unless the Republican Party gets its game right, unless it stops being pulled either to the side of the Rinos or the side of the so called 'perfectionists' who have to have EVERY agenda met or they will not vote (personally I find such perfectionists worse than the Rinos), and unless The Party gets back to its conservative roots (and I mean fiscal, not just social while they spend like money was going out of fashion) ....unless that happens, then this country will have Hillary as president. And the thing is, we will probably deserve it. After all, if after several years of a Republican White House, a Republican Senate, and a Republican House, we were only left with a fat bill, then something is wrong.

Now, let me go feast on my crow. I'm kind of ravenous as it is.

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