Damn the Republic, Full Speed Ahead - Part Four

Now that everyone thinks I’ve lost my mind after yesterday’s rant, let’s get right down to business and begin to tie the threads together that will prove my point. Today we will examine the members of Congress that I believe are suspect.

There are some, like Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Ted Kennedy, the Senator from Massachusetts until his death in 2009, that while extremely liberal, are/were not socialists. They are/were simply idiots. They were both born into wealth and typical of those that never had to earn money, saw the world as a game to be played. The government, corporations and even the people of this nation are simply pieces on a game board similar to the cosmic chess games that the Greek Gods were purported to have played with ancient man. The good Senators played these games partially for their amusement and partially to see if the exercises in theory they conducted during their Harvard educations held any water. Yes, they both attended Harvard …what a coincidence!

So who are the real socialists? A common thread that binds them together is the Congressional Progressive Caucus and that is a great place to start. Remember, Socialists found out a long time ago that the words like Socialism and Communism scared the living daylights out of Americans so they had to find a more temperate name for their ideology; that name was Progressivism. As Shakespeare said, “A rose by any other name smells as sweet”. As progressives, socialists could advance their agenda without the negativity that “socialism” inspired in the American people. Progressive sounded good; it sounded like progress and America loves progress. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is supported by a number of groups such as the ACLU, The Institute for Policy Studies and even some radical groups like MoveOn.org which is in turn, supported by the likes of infamous anti-Americans like George Soros.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is an organization of Members of Congress founded in 1991 by newly-elected House Representative Bernie Sanders (Independent-Vermont), who is a self-described socialist. As of April 2007, the Congressional Progressive Caucus included Sanders (who became a U.S. Senator in 2006), Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and 69 members of the House of Representatives, all of them leftist Democrats and almost all in districts heavily gerrymandered to guarantee the re-election of any Democratic Party incumbent, no matter how extreme.

On November 11, 1999, the Congressional Progressive Caucus drafted its Position Paper on economic inequality. It reads, in part, as follows: "Economic inequality is the result of two and a half decades of government policies and rules governing the economy being tilted in favor of large asset owners at the expense of wage earners. Tax policy, trade policy, monetary policy, government regulations and other rules have reflected this pro-investor bias. We propose the introduction or reintroduction of a package of legislative initiatives that will close America's economic divide and address both income and wealth disparities. … The concentration of wealth is a problem because it distorts our democracy, destabilizes the economy and erodes our social and cultural fabric."In order "to bring new life to the progressive voice in U.S. politics," the Congressional Progressive Caucus has worked closely with Progressive Challenge, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies. Progressive Challenge is a coalition through which the activities and talking points of leftist groups are synchronized and harmonized with one another, producing coordinated, mutually-reinforcing propaganda from some 200 seemingly-unconnected groups.

In 2005 the Congressional Progressive Caucus crafted its "Progressive Promise" document, which advocates socialized medicine; radical environmentalism; the redistribution of wealth; higher taxes; the elimination of numerous provisions of the Patriot Act; dramatic reductions in the government's intelligence-gathering capabilities; debt relief for poor countries; and the quick withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. These measures, says the Congressional Progressive Caucus, would help "re-build U.S. alliances around the world, restore international respect for American power and influence, and reaffirm our nation's constructive engagement in the United Nations and other multilateral organizations."

Now here is the important part, until 1999 the Congressional Progressive Caucus worked in open partnership with Democratic Socialists of America. After the press reported on this link, the connections suddenly vanished from both organizations' websites.

Internet information supporting additional links have vanished as soon as they become public knowledge. For example Van Jones, President Obama’s former Green Jobs Czar, had made some damning admissions that after being jailed in conjunction with the Rodney King riots that his ideology shifted and he had realized he was in fact, a communist. This admission disappeared from web sources as soon as people began mailing the links to each other. The links between Carol Browner, President Obama’s current Climate Czar, and Socialist International have been expunged too. Big Brother is indeed watching but fortunately some of the right people found those links first and have made hard copies of the information.

So who belongs to the Congressional Progressive Caucus? It is an enormous list of 83 members of Congress, most of which will not surprise you, most of which rank between 90% and 100% on the socialist scorecard based on their voting records alone. They are:

House of Representatives:
Ed Pastor, Raúl Grijalva, Lynn Woolsey, George Miller, Barbara Lee, Pete Stark, Michael Honda, Sam Farr, Henry Waxman, Xavier Becerra, Judy Chu, Diane Watson, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Maxine Waters, Laura Richardson, Linda Sanchez, Bob Filner, Jared Polis, Rosa DeLauro, Corrine Brown, Alan Grayson, Robert Wexler, Alcee Hastings, Hank Johnson, John Lewis. Neil Abercrombie, Mazie Hirono, Bobby Rush, Jesse Jackson, Jr, Luis Gutierrez, Danny Davis, Jan Schakowsky, Phil Hare, André Carson, Dave Loebsack, Chellie Pingree, Donna Edwards, Elijah Cummings, John Olver, Jim McGovern, Barney Frank, John Tierney, Ed Markey, Mike Capuano, Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, John Conyers, Keith Ellison, Bennie Thompson, William Lacy Clay, Jr., Emanuel Cleaver, Donald Payne, Frank Pallone (NJ-06) Ben R. Luján, Jerry Nadler, Yvette Clarke, Nydia Velazquez, Carolyn Maloney, Charles Rangel, Jose Serrano, John Hall, Maurice Hinchey, Louise Slaughter, Eric Massa, Mel Watt, Marcy Kaptur, Dennis Kucinich, Marcia Fudge, Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio, Bob Brady, Chaka Fattah, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Jim Moran, Peter Welch, Jim McDermott, Tammy Baldwin, Gwen Moore, Donna M. Christensen, Eleanor Holmes Norton,

Senate:
Bernie Sanders

Soviet defectors have already established the links between the KGB and subversive infiltration of American labor movements, universities and socialist organizations within the United States; the previous work of Senator Joe McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee had established socialist and communist influences in film, press, government and the higher education establishments within our nation and now the internet has provided us with a link between the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Democratic Socialists of America, the principal affiliate of Socialists International in this country.

Democratic Socialists of America describes itself as "the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International," the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the United States. "We are socialists," reads the organization's boilerplate, "because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo." "To achieve a more just society," adds DSA, "many structures of our government and economy must be radically transformed. ... Democracy and socialism go hand in hand. All over the world, wherever the idea of democracy has taken root, the vision of socialism has taken root as well—everywhere but in the United States."

Hmmm? wasn't it Barack Obama that said five days before the 2008 election that "we are five days away from fundimentally trasforming the United States"?

Wouldn’t you know it, two of the most noted members of the DSA are Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, former sociologists from Colombia University and authors of the Cloward-Piven Strategy. This is a strategy designed to wrought economic ruin on the United States in an attempt to collapse the government so that Socialism could finally claim America. In another quirky coincidence, Wade Rathke, the founder of ACORN and SEIU was a student of Cloward and Piven. In 1966, Rathke worked as an organizer for The National Welfare Rights Organization which was one of the groups formed to test out the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Through the work of this and other groups during the late 1960’s and early 1970’s, Cloward and Piven claimed responsibility for the financial collapse of New York City in the mid ‘70s boasting this was clear proof of their strategy’s success.

Monday we will delve into some of the people that are members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, the educational backgrounds, their voting records and more importantly, their rank on the Socialist scorecard.

Paul