Looking at LaRouche's accusation against Nancy Pelosi

Leaflet for Mass Distribution: "It’s Time for Nancy Pelosi To Go"

November 7, 2007 (LPAC)--The following is a just-released leaflet for mass distibution.

"It’s Time for Nancy Pelosi To Go"

Oct 27, 2007 –

In the national elections of November 2006, U.S. voters delivered what should have been a fatal blow to the Cheney-Bush administration, with its record of dangerous and incompetent policies. Led by an unprecedented turnout of young voters, spearheaded by an organizing drive of the LaRouche Youth Movement (LYM)—which was identified by Democratic Party statesman Lyndon LaRouche as the "New Politics"—the rejection of the incumbent Administration’s war in southwest Asia, and attack on the General Welfare, swept into office a Democratic majority in the Congress, with a popular mandate for wholesale change.

In ten months in office, that new majority appears to have squandered that great opportunity, as the most recent polls show support of the Congress at below 11%. How did such a dramatic turnaround occur?

In a series of stinging comments this week, LaRouche laid the blame squarely on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has used her office to act, repeatedly, against what LaRouche called "the most vital strategic interests of the United States."

-- Pelosi’s "Ms.-Leadership" --

While the Cheney-Bush Administration is "staying the course," of war, with preparations complete to attack Iran, despite the continuing failure in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pelosi has taken impeachment against the war-mongering Dick Cheney "off the table," and has blocked Congressional action to prevent a new war against Iran; and while millions of American households face foreclosure, factories closing, jobs outsourced, and crumbling national infrastructure, she has acted against Congressmen who were moving, in collaboration with LaRouche, to address these crises. In particular, she has blocked motion in support of LaRouche’s Emergency Reconstruction Act of 2006, and the Homeowners and Bank Protection Act of 2007.

LaRouche charged that "Pelosi is the policy instrument of fascist banker Felix Rohatyn, and his circles running the hedge funds," which have a stranglehold on the Democratic Party, in collaboration with fascist George Shultz, "who designed the Bush administration and the Schwarzenegger clown-government of California. In fact, the two leading national Democrats, who are both from California—Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein—are both under the thumb of Rohatyn and Shultz. And other Democrats in Congress, who oppose the war, are capitulating to them."

LaRouche continued: "Any Congressman who’s opposed to the war policy, but is continuing to support Nancy Pelosi after her action against the impeachment of Dick Cheney, and on related destructive economic policies, is really rolling out the red carpet for war," with Iran, or Syria, or beyond. "That's what it means when they publicly oppose some mechanism of the process by which new wars are being prepared, but don’t act to remove the author of the war policy. That’s what they’re doing when they agree to Pelosi’s leadership of the House."

Pelosi's adherence to the Rohatyn-Shultz war policy and their free trade, pro-deregulation, anti-Franklin Roosevelt economic policies, has undermined those Democrats who would otherwise fight. Freshman Democrats, who rode into office on the wave of the "New Politics," as well as seasoned fighters in the party, have backed off time-and-again from taking effective action against the Administration, under heavy pressure from Pelosi. One party leader from California said he has never seen such demoralization and impotence among Democrats as a result of the capitulation in Washington, D.C.

Responding to this situation, LaRouche added one additional point: "The 2008 election will be a farce unless Pelosi goes. There will be no serious alternative presented by the Democrats. She is killing the Democratic Party."

Thus, LaRouche concluded on October 25, "It’s time for Nancy Pelosi to go."