The Pelosi Papers

Is the House Speaker a moderate trying to hold off Democrat extremists?
 
March 15, 2019  Lloyd Billingsley 

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is losing control of the House to upstarts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar, who are much in the spotlight these days. This prevailing narrative implies major policy differences between Pelosi and the surging socialist wing of the party. Pelosi’s record suggests that assumption is highly questionable.

In 2001, nine years after Soviet archives identified Harry Bridges as a Kremlin-approved member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, Nancy Pelosi wrote in the Congressional Record that “Harry Bridges was arguably the most significant labor leader of the twentieth century,” and “beloved by the workers of this nation, and recognized as one of the most important labor leaders in the world.”

In “Pelosi’s Favorite Stalinist,” Joshua Muravchik also noted the Democrat’s enthusiasm for Vivian Hallinan, whose husband Vincent Hallinan was Bridges’ lawyer and the 1952 candidate for president of the Communist-front Progressive party. These Communist connections raised concerns about Pelosi’s trustworthiness with sensitive information............. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi differs from them only in degree, not in kind..........To Read More.....