House Democratic Whip Nancy Pelosi, who plans to be Speaker of the House someday, has her own Political Action Committee, called PAC to the Future. I imagine that the word "Future" in the title is meant to convey that Pelosi and the PAC recipients all support progress. In fact, many of the PAC's recipients are, like Pelosi herself, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, which has nothing to do with progress and is all about a return to the paleo-liberal failures of the past.
The recipient list of Nancy's PAC reads like a roll call of the dimmest bulbs in Congress. The top recipient this campaign cycle was Earl "his opponent is supported by the Jewish lobby" Hilliard, who scored $15,000. Likewise, Pelosi was tied for #1 on Hilliard's donor list. Hilliard will not be returning to Congress in January as he was trounced in the primary by Artur Davis.
Other retrograde beneficiaries of Nancy's largesse include the lame-brained lame duck Cynthia McKinney, Sen. Paul Wellstone, useful idiots David Bonior and Jim McDermott of the Committee to Re-elect President Saddam Hussein, the ethically challenged and boorish Sheila Jackson Lee, John "reparations" Conyers, Jesse L. Jackson, Jr. (D-His Father), someone named Huey P Long, (but presumably not that Huey P Long), primary losing Schwarzenegger brother-in-law Mark Kennedy Shriver, and Mel Carnahan, who is apparently still dead.
As I explained last week, when you vote for your local Democrat House candidate, you're also voting for Nancy Pelosi to become Speaker of the House someday. If that sounds like a good idea, then vote for the Democrat.
UPDATE (Nov. 8) Pelosi has secured the position of House Minority Leader, making her an even stronger candidate to become Speaker should the Democrats retake the House in 2004. A complete index of my blog entries devoted to Nancy Pelosi is here
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at October 22, 2002 06:10 AM