THE SELLING OUT OF NANCY PELOSI AND BLIND WORSHIP OF THE SAVIOR
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, most powerful member of the U.S. House of Representatives, grew up in a politically active, militantly pro-union family in Baltimore and moved to San Francisco, where she rose through Democratic Party ranks and got herself elected to the U.S. House, regularly winning overwhelming majority re-election votes by THE most liberal constituency in the United States, the voters of San Francisco, California, and always pushed for liberal/left causes, until ascending, in a feminist coup de grace, to the Speakership, just over two years ago.
What, pray tell, has this dangerously leftist liberal done since rising to that position? She immediately and single-handedly blocked House Judiciary Committee hearings on articles of impeachment against Bush, emphatically declaring that "impeachment is off the table," continually claims to favor, yet obstructs any investigation into or prosecution of the top-ranking members of the Bush Administration, regularly speaks in unconditional defense of Israel, without recognizing rights in the Palestinians, let alone mentioning war crimes committed against them almost daily by Israeli troops, and knew all about (we just learned) but in no way opposed our torturing of suspects in Iraq, apparently being the second member of Congress to learn of such tactics, back in 2002.
In spite of claiming to "personally" support a single payer health insurance program, which most experts agree would give the greatest coverage to workers and administratively save the most money, has labeled this program dead in the water because it is “impractical,” meaning the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies who adamantly oppose it, give Nancy and her friends a LOT of money in the form of campaign contributions. Dickens fans can't help but assume that, were Oliver Twist's Mister Bumble to learn that such bribery was long ago legalized by Congress itself, he would, with withering incredulity, reiterate his legendary utterance: “Does the law say that? Then, the law is a ass, a idiot.”
Continuing the pattern of flagrant disconnect (can you say hypocrisy?) between her “personal” views and the “practical and necessary” agenda she pursues as OUR representative on Capitol Hill, Pelosi also claims to support the Employee Free Choice Act, which would facilitate workers’ ability to unionize in the face of illegal managerial tactics frequently employed to quash union organizing under the current rules, but - déjà vu all over again - can’t bring this to a vote now because we have bigger priorities, thereby neatly protecting Brobama The Savior (who hasn’t yet shown any morally courageous inclination to push for hot button items that would require a knock down, drag out with the corporate fascists masquerading as the Republican Party) from having to actually sponsor a genuinely progressive issue.
More important to Obama, and rounding out this all too brief summary of Pelosi’s impeachable dereliction of duty, she unconditionally supports every Executive measure to expand our involvement in ALL THREE mideast wars (Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan), no questions asked.
This is our "most liberal member" of the U.S. House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi’s record as Speaker of the House is living proof of Lord Acton's famous observation, written over a hundred years ago, that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Her lightning quick sell-out to corporate power constitutes an abominable abdication of moral and constitutional duty. In THIS world and THIS country, however, she is loved by the Democratic Party, hailed as a champion of liberal "values" and staunchly supported by AIPAC, the immensely powerful lobby whose raison d’etre is to assure that billions of U.S. tax-dollars continue to flow to a never has been and never will be wrong Israeli government and military, so that Pentagon East (the IDF) can continue to keep the Mideast safe for democracy.
How often does one hear such things discussed by the propaganda arm of the corporate state (aka The Mainstream Media)? Never. Imagine what efficacious pedagogical miracles could be wrought if the true progressives in this country owned or controlled just one major network or cable television station. Of course, it would be shut down post haste by the FCC, or if more drastic measures were required, bombing.
Finally, just a quick shout out to the President and the Pentagon, for how well Obama’s war in the Mideast is going. In yesterday’s change of command in Afghanistan, General McKiernan was replaced by Lt. General McChrystal, so we now have the Afghan theatre being overseen by a man who was neck-deep in the Pat Tillman coverup and we can reasonably expect chapter and verse repetition of the pattern of our catastrophic military tactics of the past fifty years: Increasingly massive bombing of civilians, blaming the deaths and casualties that inevitably result from these operations (human bodies tend to disintegrate when hit by exploding bombs) – euphemistically known as “collateral damage" - on the Taliban, puppet Afghan President Karzai’s pleading with Obama to stop the bombing falling on increasingly deaf presidential ears, more and more troops being introduced, more and more hatred against the U.S. by the people of Afghanistan, and deeper and deeper we shall wade into what (just turned ninety years old) Pete Seeger called our Vietnam debacle, “the Big Muddy." Pete also asked in his legendary anti-war folksong, written almost fifty years ago, “When will they ever learn?” Answer: NEVER.
But let’s keep rockin' in the free world, giving trillions of dollars to the corporate power brokers who criminally and with wanton disregard destroyed the American economy for the next generation or two, and ask for no accountability or transparency in return, or re-regulation of the banking and investment industries, who’ve proven so impressively what an unfettered “free market” can do. What does the almost psychotically uncritical national approval of Obama and shamefully widespread citizen disregard for Pelosi's egregious betrayal of the public trust and the actual state of affairs in this country, the reality of which is taboo in the corporate media, tell us? We get the government we deserve.
What, pray tell, has this dangerously leftist liberal done since rising to that position? She immediately and single-handedly blocked House Judiciary Committee hearings on articles of impeachment against Bush, emphatically declaring that "impeachment is off the table," continually claims to favor, yet obstructs any investigation into or prosecution of the top-ranking members of the Bush Administration, regularly speaks in unconditional defense of Israel, without recognizing rights in the Palestinians, let alone mentioning war crimes committed against them almost daily by Israeli troops, and knew all about (we just learned) but in no way opposed our torturing of suspects in Iraq, apparently being the second member of Congress to learn of such tactics, back in 2002.
In spite of claiming to "personally" support a single payer health insurance program, which most experts agree would give the greatest coverage to workers and administratively save the most money, has labeled this program dead in the water because it is “impractical,” meaning the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbies who adamantly oppose it, give Nancy and her friends a LOT of money in the form of campaign contributions. Dickens fans can't help but assume that, were Oliver Twist's Mister Bumble to learn that such bribery was long ago legalized by Congress itself, he would, with withering incredulity, reiterate his legendary utterance: “Does the law say that? Then, the law is a ass, a idiot.”
Continuing the pattern of flagrant disconnect (can you say hypocrisy?) between her “personal” views and the “practical and necessary” agenda she pursues as OUR representative on Capitol Hill, Pelosi also claims to support the Employee Free Choice Act, which would facilitate workers’ ability to unionize in the face of illegal managerial tactics frequently employed to quash union organizing under the current rules, but - déjà vu all over again - can’t bring this to a vote now because we have bigger priorities, thereby neatly protecting Brobama The Savior (who hasn’t yet shown any morally courageous inclination to push for hot button items that would require a knock down, drag out with the corporate fascists masquerading as the Republican Party) from having to actually sponsor a genuinely progressive issue.
More important to Obama, and rounding out this all too brief summary of Pelosi’s impeachable dereliction of duty, she unconditionally supports every Executive measure to expand our involvement in ALL THREE mideast wars (Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan), no questions asked.
This is our "most liberal member" of the U.S. House of Representatives. Nancy Pelosi’s record as Speaker of the House is living proof of Lord Acton's famous observation, written over a hundred years ago, that “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Her lightning quick sell-out to corporate power constitutes an abominable abdication of moral and constitutional duty. In THIS world and THIS country, however, she is loved by the Democratic Party, hailed as a champion of liberal "values" and staunchly supported by AIPAC, the immensely powerful lobby whose raison d’etre is to assure that billions of U.S. tax-dollars continue to flow to a never has been and never will be wrong Israeli government and military, so that Pentagon East (the IDF) can continue to keep the Mideast safe for democracy.
How often does one hear such things discussed by the propaganda arm of the corporate state (aka The Mainstream Media)? Never. Imagine what efficacious pedagogical miracles could be wrought if the true progressives in this country owned or controlled just one major network or cable television station. Of course, it would be shut down post haste by the FCC, or if more drastic measures were required, bombing.
Finally, just a quick shout out to the President and the Pentagon, for how well Obama’s war in the Mideast is going. In yesterday’s change of command in Afghanistan, General McKiernan was replaced by Lt. General McChrystal, so we now have the Afghan theatre being overseen by a man who was neck-deep in the Pat Tillman coverup and we can reasonably expect chapter and verse repetition of the pattern of our catastrophic military tactics of the past fifty years: Increasingly massive bombing of civilians, blaming the deaths and casualties that inevitably result from these operations (human bodies tend to disintegrate when hit by exploding bombs) – euphemistically known as “collateral damage" - on the Taliban, puppet Afghan President Karzai’s pleading with Obama to stop the bombing falling on increasingly deaf presidential ears, more and more troops being introduced, more and more hatred against the U.S. by the people of Afghanistan, and deeper and deeper we shall wade into what (just turned ninety years old) Pete Seeger called our Vietnam debacle, “the Big Muddy." Pete also asked in his legendary anti-war folksong, written almost fifty years ago, “When will they ever learn?” Answer: NEVER.
But let’s keep rockin' in the free world, giving trillions of dollars to the corporate power brokers who criminally and with wanton disregard destroyed the American economy for the next generation or two, and ask for no accountability or transparency in return, or re-regulation of the banking and investment industries, who’ve proven so impressively what an unfettered “free market” can do. What does the almost psychotically uncritical national approval of Obama and shamefully widespread citizen disregard for Pelosi's egregious betrayal of the public trust and the actual state of affairs in this country, the reality of which is taboo in the corporate media, tell us? We get the government we deserve.
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