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The known socialists in U.S Congress
« on: November 04, 2009, 10:37:28 AM »
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The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) was established in 1991 by five members of the United States House of Representatives:

Ron Dellums (D-CA), Lane Evans (D-IL), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
 


 
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The Socialists In The United States Congress

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 are all Democrats and they all belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC), that was established in the early 1990's.  The 83 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).

 

In 2009, of the twenty standing committees of the House, eleven are chaired by members of the CPC.

 

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.

 
Arizona
bullet   Ed Pastor (AZ-4, Phoenix)
bullet   Raúl Grijalva (AZ-7, Tucson), Co-Chair

California
bullet   Lynn Woolsey (CA-6, Santa Rosa), Co-Chair
bullet   George Miller (CA-7, Richmond), Chairman, House Education and Labor Committee
bullet   Barbara Lee (CA-9, Oakland), Chairwoman, Congressional Black Caucus
bullet   Pete Stark (CA-13, Fremont)
bullet   Michael Honda (CA-15, San Jose)
bullet   Sam Farr (CA-17, Monterey)
bullet   Henry Waxman (CA-30, Los Angeles), Chairman, House Energy and Commerce Committee
bullet   Xavier Becerra (CA-31, Los Angeles)
bullet   Judy Chu (CA-32, El Monte)
bullet   Diane Watson (CA-33, Los Angeles)
bullet   Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34, Los Angeles)
bullet   Maxine Waters (CA-35, Inglewood)
bullet   Laura Richardson (CA-37, Long Beach)
bullet   Linda Sanchez (CA-39, Lakewood)
bullet   Bob Filner (CA-51, San Diego), Chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee

Colorado
bullet   Jared Polis (CO-02, Boulder)

Connecticut
bullet   Rosa DeLauro (CT-3, New Haven)

Florida
bullet   Corrine Brown (FL-3, Jacksonville)
bullet   Alan Grayson (FL-8, Orlando)
bullet   Robert Wexler (FL-19, Boca Raton)
bullet   Alcee Hastings (FL-23, Fort Lauderdale)

Georgia
bullet   Hank Johnson (GA-4, Lithonia)
bullet   John Lewis (GA-5, Atlanta)

Hawaii
bullet   Neil Abercrombie (HI-1, Honolulu) -- The only person on the planet to see Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and Anna Dunham together
bullet   Mazie Hirono (HI-2, Honolulu)

Illinois
bullet   Bobby Rush (IL-1, Chicago) -- This guy is an ex-Black Panther
bullet   Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2, Chicago Heights)
bullet   Luis Gutierrez (IL-4, Chicago)
bullet   Danny Davis (IL-7, Chicago)
bullet   Jan Schakowsky (IL-9, Chicago)
bullet   Phil Hare (IL-17, Rock Island)

Indiana
bullet   André Carson (IN-7, Indianapolis)

Iowa
bullet   Dave Loebsack (IA-2, Cedar Rapids)

Maine
bullet   Chellie Pingree (ME-1, North Haven)

Maryland
bullet   Donna Edwards (MD-4, Fort Washington)
bullet   Elijah Cummings (MD-7, Baltimore)

Massachusetts
bullet   John Olver (MA-1, Amherst)
bullet   Jim McGovern (MA-3, Worcester)
bullet   Barney Frank (MA-4, Newton), Chairman, House Financial Services Committee
bullet   John Tierney (MA-6, Salem)
bullet   Ed Markey (MA-7, Malden)
bullet   Mike Capuano (MA-8, Boston)

Michigan
bullet   Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI-13, Detroit)
bullet   John Conyers (MI-14, Detroit), Chairman, House Judiciary Committee

Minnesota
bullet   Keith Ellison (MN-5, Minneapolis)

Minssippi
bullet   Bennie Thompson (MS-2, Bolton), Chairman, House Homeland Security Committee

Missouri
bullet   William Lacy Clay, Jr. (MO-1, St. Louis)
bullet   Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5, Kansas City)

New Jersey
bullet   Donald Payne (NJ-10, Newark)
bullet   Frank Pallone (NJ-06)

New Mexico
bullet   Ben R. Luján (NM-3, Santa Fe)

New York
bullet   Jerry Nadler (NY-8, Manhattan)
bullet   Yvette Clarke (NY-11, Brooklyn)
bullet   Nydia Velazquez (NY-12, Brooklyn), Chairwoman, House Small Business Committee
bullet   Carolyn Maloney (NY-14, Manhattan)
bullet   Charles Rangel (NY-15, Harlem), Chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
bullet   Jose Serrano (NY-16, Bronx)
bullet   John Hall (NY-19, Dover Plains)
bullet   Maurice Hinchey (NY-22, Saugerties)
bullet   Louise Slaughter (NY-28, Rochester), Chairwoman, House Rules Committee
bullet   Eric Massa (NY-29, Corning)

North Carolina
bullet   Mel Watt (NC-12, Charlotte)

Ohio
bullet   Marcy Kaptur (OH-9, Toledo)
bullet   Dennis Kucinich (OH-10, Cleveland)
bullet   Marcia Fudge (OH-11, Warrensville Heights)

Oregon
bullet   Earl Blumenauer (OR-3, Portland)
bullet   Peter DeFazio (OR-4, Eugene)

Pennsylvania
bullet   Bob Brady (PA-1, Philadelphia) - Chairman, House Administration Committee
bullet   Chaka Fattah (PA-2, Philadelphia)

Tennessee
bullet   Steve Cohen (TN-9, Memphis)

Texas
bullet   Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18, Houston)
bullet   Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30, Dallas)

Virginia
bullet   Jim Moran (VA-8, Alexandria)

Vermont
bullet   Peter Welch (VT-At Large)

Washington
bullet   Jim McDermott (WA-7, Seattle)

Wisconsin
bullet   Tammy Baldwin (WI-2, Madison)
bullet   Gwen Moore (WI-4, Milwaukee)

Non-Voting
bullet   Donna M. Christensen (Virgin Islands)
bullet   Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)

Senate Members
bullet   Bernie Sanders (Vermont)
bullet   Tom Udall (New Mexico)

Former Members
bullet   Sherrod Brown (OH-13) - Elected to Senate
bullet   Julia Carson (IN-07) - Died in December 2007
bullet   Lane Evans (IL-17) - Retired from Congress
bullet   Cynthia McKinney (GA-4) - Lost Congressional seat to current caucus member Hank Johnson
bullet   Major Owens (NY-11) - Retired from Congress
bullet   Nancy Pelosi (CA-8) - Left Caucus when Elected House Minority Leader
bullet   Hilda Solis (CA-32) - Became Secretary of Labor in 2009
bullet   Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH-11) - Died in 2008
bullet   Paul Wellstone (MN Senate) - Died in plane crash in 2002
Barack Obama's Relationship To The DSA
The New Zeal blog has 19 links to articles it has produced about Barack Obama's long term association with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

So what you say -- they're "democratic" aren't they?  They're only "socialists, not communists or militant radicals?

Some facts:

Obama has close personal and political ties to several DSA members including Quentin Young, Timuel Black, the late Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, the late Saul Mendelson, Lou Pardo, Congressman Danny Davis and DSA honorees Jackie Grimshaw, Jackie Kendall and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky.

DSA's several thousand strong membership has grown increasingly militant over the years until the point its policies are almost indistinguishable from those of the Communist Party USA.  In an article in DSA's Democratic Left, Spring 2007, DSA National Political Committee member David Green wrote;
   

Our goal as socialists is to abolish private ownership of the means of production.  Our immediate task is to limit the capitalist class’s prerogatives in the workplace...

In the short run we must at least minimize the degree of exploitation of workers by capitalists.  We can accomplish this by promoting full employment policies, passing local living wage laws, but most of all by increasing the union movement’s power...
 
The DSA has some cross membership with the Communist Party and considerable cross-membership with the the equally militant Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.

DSA has close ties to many Congressman, including John Conyers, Danny Davis, Jan Schakowsky (all close Obama supporters) Jerrold Nadler and Bob Filner.

DSA has key personnel or allies at the top of AFL-CIO, SEIU, United Auto Workers, United Steelworkers of America and other major unions.

DSA has considerable influence in ACORN, Working Families Party, Green Party, Democratic Party, USAction, Jobs with Justice, Economic Policy Institute, Campaign for America's Future, Demos (which Obama helped found), Black Radical Congress and many other mass organizations, including some churches.

DSA is affiliated to the Socialist International which now includes several "former" communist parties-Mongolia, Mozambique, Bulgaria, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Angola, Hungary and Poland, as well as the Nicaraguan Sandinistas and the still-existing Communist Parties of Laos, Cuba and China ("observer" only).

Continue reading here . . .  .             

http://newzeal.blogspot.com/2009/09/obama-file-87-socialists-in-obama.html
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Re: The known socialists in U.S Congress
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2009, 05:40:55 PM »
Thanks for the list, didn't know there were so many...

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« Reply #2 on: November 05, 2009, 06:46:26 PM »
It's amazing how many people actually believe in communism.
It's a disease and it's contageous.

A communist coup on the human mind; this mental and psychic terrorism must be fought.
Truth weakens them. They hate it much like vampires hate sun-light.

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Re: The known socialists in U.S Congress
« Reply #3 on: November 05, 2009, 06:50:31 PM »
libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky<<

Libertarian and Socialist are polar opposites.  One believes the government runs everything the other believes the government should stay out of most things.
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« Reply #4 on: November 05, 2009, 06:56:10 PM »
libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky<<

Libertarian and Socialist are polar opposites.  One believes the government runs everything the other believes the government should stay out of most things.

I think Noam Chomsky considers himself to be an anarchist. Anarchists are like libertarians in the sense that they believe in no government but are like socialists in the sense that they believe in communal property.

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« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2009, 06:58:55 PM »
libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky<<

Libertarian and Socialist are polar opposites.  One believes the government runs everything the other believes the government should stay out of most things.

I think Noam Chomsky considers himself to be an anarchist. Anarchists are like libertarians in the sense that they believe in no government but are like socialists in the sense that they believe in communal property.

Any group of people can get together and privately buy property and live communally if they want to (and are not committing major crimes).  They don't need politics to do that.
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