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Nancy Pelosi Must Go

Written by: Charlie Shannon on Nov 10, 2007 3:53 AM EST

The new Congress elected in November 2006, had an estimated 70% popularity with the U.S. population. Now a full year later, the estimated popularity of the Congress has fallen below 11%, a fall largely due to the role of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. For similar causes, the U.S. dollar has also fallen, that at a presently accelerating rate. This threatened ruin of the prospects of the Democratic Party which Mrs. Pelosi's misconduct has done much to produce, has now imperiled the continued existence of the original constitutional form of our republic.

At the FDP Convention banquet October 27, Saturday night banquet keynote speaker House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md) made excuses why Congress could not bring the troops home and people attending shouted “cut off the money”. Well Hoyer made a motion at Pelosi‘s behest, to table Kucinich’s privileged resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. This motion was defeated with 251 against tabling to 162 in favor of tabling. 165 Republicans voted against tabling, as did 86 Democrats.

Unless the Democratic Congress can improve its action, there will be a situation where former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, could be elected President by default, in 2008. This in turn will set up a fascist type government ruled by a select few controlled by a mass indoctrination of fear of terrorist (similar to Hitler’s Germany).

It is up to all of us to prevent this from happening by taking an active role in electing Democrats, including a Democrat for President. With a Congress like we have no wonder we can’t get Democrats out to vote and many others are changing to no party affiliated.

Steve Blythe is running for Congress in FL-15. It’s important that we get Dave Weldon out of the Congress. But, it’s also matters who we replace him with.
We don’t just need a Democrat in that seat. We need someone who’ll go to Washington and challenge a system that has left 48 million Americans uninsured, 37 million Americans in poverty, and 150,000 American troops in Iraq, fighting a war we shouldn’t have started and don’t know how to end.

Go to blythe2008.com/ and sign up to help Steve.

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By Roman Aleksander on Nov 10, 2007 3:25 PM EST

I TOTALLY dissagree.

I happen to think you are barking up the wrong tree.

This is the fault of the OBSTRUCTIONIST REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS!!!

As for Impeachment, we just dont have the votes !!

The Speaker knows how vile and evil these republicans are!
Do you really think that if the Congress stoped funding the war the war would STOP!!!???
NO!!! It wouldnt, GWB would sign an executive order or I dont know what, but THE WAR would not stop!!! Then.... THEN all the people who voted to stop funding would look like real zhit.
These people are EVIL, Speaker Pelosi knows this!
She is walking a fine line and I for one am glad she hasnt run pell mel into any republican traps.
Go after the people whos fault this really is. THE REPUBLICANS!!

US ARMY VET

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By Charlie Shannon on Nov 13, 2007 9:16 AM EST

Thanks Roman.

We have received comments from other Democrats to not rock the boat. But as we look at Hoyer and other elected Democrats in Congress one wonder who they represent and it appears that they represent the special interests vs. the people. Read Thomas Frank's book "What's the Matter with Kansas" and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast and it appears that during the 1990 the Democratic party of FDR and Kenedy became a second Republican Party.

No wonder 70% of Americans feel left out and that it doesn't matter who gets elected that they won't be represented anyway. In my precinct Brevard 59, I can not get some people to register to vote nor get others who are registered to vote. Why, because they don't believe that their vote will count.

I agree we should not knock Nancy Pelosi - it did get your atention - but we must give our voters hope.

We need every progressive activist to spend one hour or more every month meeting their neighbors and making sure those who will vote for progressive candidate actually vote on Election Day. In Brevard County we are signing up people to vote by absentee ballot because over 90% vote vs. only 80% Dems and 60T Npa in the 2006 Presidential Election.

Together we can do elective progressive candidates, just like DFA members help elect Carol Shea-Porter NH D-1st in 2006. The remarkable part is that she spent only $125,000, won against a two term Republican and defeated the DCCC candidate in the Primary Election.