Dick Lugar's Marxist Ties and President Obama's Open Mic

The news of President Obama's open mic conversation with Dmitry Medvedev spread quickly on the Internet. Here's the key exchange between the two leaders:

President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space. 

President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you… 

President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility. 

President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

As zerohedge reported Monday night: "it was only a matter of time before the more conservative republican elements went beyond the simply rhetorical and asked some pointed questions, such as this from Mike Turner, Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces..." Turner has sent the following letter to the President calling him to account:

Conservatives are obviously outraged by what appears to be President Obama tipping his hand to Medvedev and the Russian Federation; however, it is important to remember that it's left-leaning Republicans in the US Senate, like Indiana's Dick Lugar (R-IN), that often compromise America's strategic position in the world through reckless foreign policy.

Trevor Loudon of the New Zeal blog recently recounted how Dick Lugar did exactly that with the New START treaty:

Leftist journalist and member of the infamous JournoList, Spencer Ackerman wrote in The Washington Independent:

In the spirit of self-criticism, something that I see my New START coverage has taken for granted is the support of Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), the leading arms-control baron on the Republican side in the Senate… 

Lugar is firmly behind the Obama administration’s new treaty to reduce the U.S.-Russian nuclear stockpile and the deployed systems that can deliver those deadly payloads. So if you assume every Democratic senator will vote for the treaty when it comes up for ratification, Lugar’s vote brings the count to 60. The question is whether Lugar’s vote can bring along seven other Republicans.

In the end, Lugar convinced more than enough Republicans to vote for a treaty that was enthusiastically backed by the Democrats, Russians, Socialist International and the Communist Party USA.

Obama crafts backroom deals that undermine America's foreign policy while relying on his favorite Republican Senator to whip the votes he needs to cross the two-thirds threshold required to pass a treaty out of the Senate. Dick Lugar's appalling record of weakening America's nuclear deterrent is one reason that hawk Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum endorsed Lugar's GOP primary opponent, Richard Mourdock.

As I recounted this past January, Dick Lugar is a Wilsonian internationalist funded by George Soros; however, I was surprised to learn that Lugar's leftist roots dig even deeper than a thousand dollar donation from Soros. The New Zeal blog post linked above recounts Lugar's ties a Marxist led "peace" PAC, the Council for a Livable World. Trevor Loudon describes CLW:

Founded in 1962 by Manhattan Project nuclear scientist, leftist and reported Soviet agent, Leo Szilard, and led by long time Socialist Party USA/Democratic Socialists of America affiliate Jerome Grossman and more lately senior Democrat Congressman turned D.S.A. member David Bonior. Council for a Livable World is the US’ leading pro-disarmament lobby group/PAC.

The CLW has funded hundreds of US Senators and Congressmen in its history, almost all Democrats. In recent years, Lugar has been the only Republican to receive C.L.W. largess.

The Council for a Livable World has a strategy for financing candidates with the intent of subverting those candidates once they've held office for several years:

C.L.W.’s long time CEO, Jerome Grossman, claims that by funding Senators at the beginning of their careers, the C.L.W. was able to influence them later when needed. 

Now Council for a Livable World is playing the money game… We try to find obscure people who would make good Senators or Representatives and early on try to give them the initial funding. Now we can’t compete with the big money. We only raise a million and a half each election cycle. But that’s a million and a half that has no cost to them. Because we get in early, and because it’s tied to issues, seems to have some kind of an effect. Then if we elect somebody they’re eternally grateful. Then we go and we are able to get a hearing.

Loudon closes with this rhetorical question:

Given C.L.W.’s far left and even pro-Moscow connections, should the GOP even consider running an ally of the anti-American far left, like “Dangerous Dick’ Lugar?

The alternative to Dick Lugar is a strong America. For that reason, it's time for Richard Mourdock.



Update: Thanks to Smitty at the OtherMcCain for the link!

Related articles

• Arlen Specter endorses Dick Lugar (rebootcongress.blogspot.com)
• Polls: Richard Mourdock closing on Dick Lugar (rebootcongress.blogspot.de)
• Dick Lugar: "Defending" Indiana from Virginia (rebootcongress.blogspot.com)
• Obama Caught on Hot Mic: Tells Russian PM He'll Have More 'Flexibility' 'After My Election' (theblaze.com)
• A Closer Look At Senator Dick Lugar's Deep RINO Roots: What is Lugar's Connection to Wendell Willkie, the First RINO of Record? (diana-vice.blogspot.com)
• Lugar Reimbursing Government For Hotel Expenses While Visiting Indiana (advanceindiana.blogspot.com)
• Palin: The Audacity of Obama's Intentions Revealed (sarahpalinblog.typepad.com)
• Obama Tells Russia to Hold Off on Missile Defense: "I'll Have More Time After Election" (thegatewaypundit.com)
• Obama makes light of open mic moment (politico.com)
• Obama's Open Mic Medvedev Missile Gaffe (news.sky.com)
• Obama: 'After My Election I'll Have More Flexibility' (foxnews.com)

Socialist Underpinnings of Egyptian Revolution

Over at The Graph, Brooks Bayne has written about The Socialist Roots Of The Egyptian Protests:

These Egyptian grassroots political activists, most of them socialist/Marxist/unionist, used the momentum of the recent “revolution” in Tunisia to kick-off their January 25th protests. But who was behind the protests in Tunisia? Were the same people responsible there? If you look at the people who were appointed to the new Tunisian government, that should be obvious. Socialists.

Interesting stuff. I'd like to see what P/Oed Patriot has to say on this. He's unearthed socialist and communist roots here in the US.

Related articles

• Why Were U.S. Socialists Rallying in Support of Egypt This Weekend? (theblaze.com)
• "Revolution in Egypt - Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire" and related posts (newzeal.blogspot.com)

Communist influence in Minnesota?

"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."

—attributed to Josef Stalin

New Zeal is reporting that evidence of Minnesota's Secretary of State Mark Ritchie's ties to the Communist Party will be released this week:

At 9am EST Tuesday November 30, 2010, New Zeal will post documentary evidence linking Minnesota Secretary of State Mark Ritchie, to the Communist Party USA.

Why is this important?

A key part of Mark Ritchie's job is to oversee electoral recounts in Minnesota.

In early 2009 Mark Ritchie judged that his Wellstone Action Advisory Committee and Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party colleague Al Franken had won a Minnesota U.S. Senate seat, even though Republican opponent Norm Coleman was ahead on election night.

The recount was dogged with controversy, with allegations that felon's votes were illegally counted.

Currently, Mark Ritchie is overseeing another election recount. This could give the Minnesota governorship to another of Ritchie's Wellstone Action Advisory Committee and Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party colleagues, Mark Dayton.

One of the Communist Party USA members linked to Mark Ritchie, labor leader Mark Froemke used his union to endorse Al Franken.

In October 2009 Mark Froemke was the Fargo Moorehead organizer for a 10 Days of Labor Action campaign in support of Minnesota gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton.

The Communist Party has infiltrated the Democratic Party in several states and openly supports the Democrats against the Republicans in its publications.

The fact that Mark Ritchie has documented covert ties to the Communist Party USA must bring his neutrality as an election overseer into severe doubt.

O'Donnell Calls Coons 'a Marxist' During Senate Debate

The New York times reports on Delaware's Senatorial debate between O'Donnell and Coons :

A feisty, aggressive Ms. O’Donnell called Mr. Coons a Marxist whose beliefs came from a socialist professor and said he would “rubber stamp” the policies of the Democrats in Washington. Mr. Coons raised questions about whether Ms. O’Donnell’s faith would drive her positions on social issues like abortion, prayer and evolution.

No need to worry, though, Chris Coons was only joking about being a "bearded Marxist":

Mr. Coons responded that the source of her charge – an article he wrote as a student – was “a joke” that his Republican friends at the time conceived when he registered as a Democrat.

When is it funny to joke about being a "bearded Marxist"?  Well, maybe if he was planning a new stand-up carrier based on the classic comedy of the Marx brothers...

Instapundit Compares a Marxist Utopia to a Plantation

Glenn Reynolds compares Cuba, a Marxist utopia, to a plantation of the Old South:

...if you look at a Marxist Utopia — say, Cuba — what you’ll see is basically a plantation. At the top, you’ve got the Massa and his family — Fidel, Raul, et al. — followed by various layers of overseers — the Communist Party apparat, the secret police — and House Negroes — e.g., the state-controlled media — all living off the surplus labor of the Field Negroes, whose produce is disposed of not according to their own desires (that would be capitalism!) but according to their betters’. This, we’re told, is for the best, since they aren’t smart enough to make their own decisions anyway, and the Massa looks after them with food, housing, and health care. Slaveholders even defended their system as more humane and less exploitative than atomistic capitalism, conveniently ignoring the role of the lash, just as apologists for Marxism conveniently ignore the role of the gulag.

A marketing suggestion for our leftie friends: Communism: it's the new slavery!

Glenn Burleigh walks around in Circles

Glenn Burleigh walks around in circles

The fifth "Glenn Burleigh" on Pipl.com: "Glenn Burleigh is an organizer with the Communication Workers union and co-chair of the Missouri/Kansas Communist Party education/ideology committee..."

24thState has been digging into Comrade Burleigh's nefarious activities with interesting results:
Jefferson County taxpayers spent $185,000 to encourage themselves to vote for a 911 ballot initiative.

Hey, it's work. He's gotta put bread on the table even if he's doing so while committing the fatal conceit. Maybe he has a highly developed sense of irony.

Examiner.com exposes the Marxist leanings of the leftover leftist Robert McChesney and the "Free" Press:

Robert W. McChesney is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches in the Department of Communication. McChesney also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio on WILL-AM radio. Chensey, former editor of the socialist & Marxist Monthly Review, now is director of the foundation that operates the magazine.

If you hit those Media Matters and Monthly Review links, please remember the wisdom of your shampoo bottle: lather, rinse, repeat!