This rant originally appeared on this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1364106&mesg_id=1364106“Webb says the future of the Dem party lies in rejecting Rubin wing of party,” and refers to an item in madfloridian’s journal:
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/745 …about the worrisome story that Pelosi allowed Robert Rubin to address the freshman Democrats, presumably to indoctrinate them.
Peace Patriot posted the following in response, which many of us thought deserved its own thread for visibility:
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Worried about Pelosi. Very early, about a week after the 2006 elections—after the American people had done their best to outvote the voting machines, and had put the House gavel into Nancy Pelosi's hands--I heard a confab on C-Span radio, of the new "Blue Dog" Democrats. I listened for some change of tune from the days when Gary Condit led them, and distinguished himself as a Bushite Democrat by voting for the first Bush/Cheney tax cut for the rich, on May 3, 2001, one of only ten Democrats who did so, in a very close vote (--and, curiously, three days after Chandra Levy's disappearance). What these new "Blue Dogs" said was this: They were for "fiscal responsibility," which, to them--as they discussed this issue--meant cutting everything in the budget EXCEPT WAR SPENDING. I was especially alert to their views not only because I knew the history of the "Blue Dogs," but also because the announcer mentioned that Nancy Pelosi was in the studio. She was kind of in the background, and I don't recall her saying anything, but the point was that she was sponsoring them, promoting them, introducing them, giving them her blessing.
I thought I would vomit. We had pulled off this triumph--a Democratic win--not nearly as big as it should have been, but a majority--and, at the first opportunity, Pelosi endorsed a policy of taking the tax cuts for the rich and for corporations out of the hides of the poor.
This policy of so-called "fiscal responsibility" is the last thing in the world we need. What we need is a "New Deal" paid for by CUTS IN THE BLOATED, 'PLEASE FEEL TO PERPETRATE WARS OF CHOICE' WAR MILITARY BUDGET, fair taxation of the super-rich and global corporate predators, and recovery of revenues from thieving military contractors, and oil price gougers, and all the other shits who are stealing from us. We need jobs programs--GOVERNMENT jobs programs--socialist policies of full employment, decent wages, decent schools, free university educations, and universal health care. We need vast amounts of federal money poured into "green" energy and other creative and ingenious ways to save us from a planetary meltdown. We need huge infusions of funds in emergency services, national guards and wild weather infrastructure and safety, as well as immediate action to protect food supplies from crop failure. We need major government spending to pull us out of the multiple disasters that Bushism has created. "Fiscal responsibility" is bullshit. It is merely an extension of Reaganism and the Reagan tax code rewrite, which began shifting the tax burden to the poor.
I mean, what are we "saving" government money for? We've been there, done that. Clinton--with stringent measures against the poor--left the federal budget with a surplus. And the fascists and their corporate puppetmasters couldn't wait to steal all THAT money, and put us into a $10 trillion hole. You do "fiscal responsibility," and they steal you blind. The corporatists consider it GRAVY to be lapped up like the pigs they are. We need an entirely new economic theory. Leave them nothing to steal! Spend it all on the people!
And WHAT THE HELL are Democrats DOING, talking like Newt Gingrich?!
Anyway, this--her implied endorsement of "Blue Dog" economics--came only days after "impeachment is off the table," which I was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt about, for a while. Not any more, though. But the Blue Dogism immediately struck me with worry. And I think that, along with shoving the Iraq War down the throats of the American people, shoving "fiscal responsibility" down our throats, was the idea behind having electronic voting machines run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations. Not a peep of objection did we hear from our Democratic leadership on the installation of this Stalinist voting system.
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." --Josef Stalin
Almost all manufacturing has now been off-shored, along with millions and millions of jobs, and now they're fast outsourcing as many service jobs as they can, as well. We have essentially seen our sovereignty sold to China and Saudi Arabia, with our debt paper. We're quickly running out of oil, in an oil-based economy--and are killing Arabs by the tens of thousands, to get theirs, and sharpening our knives to kill Venezuelans and Bolivians for the same purpose. We have tens of thousands of wounded veterans to care for, and untold social costs yet to be paid for the trauma and stress Bush has inflicted on U.S. soldiers. The dollar is shaky. The housing market is collapsing. Everything is going to shit--our schools, our roads, our medical system, our morale. The major remaining employer in the country--small business--is receiving no help. No stimulus is being given to new ideas, creative enterprises, and positive and construction action. They joy of human trade has been drowned in shopping malls full of the same corporate crap, most of it made by slave labor abroad.
Let's try some "fiscal responsibility" on those bastards--U.S.-based global corporate predators. You keep your manufacturing here, or you don't do business here. You get your corporate charter pulled and your assets seized for the common good.
That's what I want to hear from Democrats. And they can take their "ol' boy" Lousiana paintings of their blue dogs and shove them up you know where!
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