Booman posted a fine piece today on his own prescription for the end of the Trump era.
Trump Should Follow Agnew’s Example (<http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2018/12/17/105020/13>)
As a (perhaps) illuminating sideline to this wonderful remembrance of a totally corrupt Baltimore pol who made it all the way from the crooked streets of post-WWII/Korean War Baltimore to the promised land…a breath away from the presidency and successful corruption beyond belief…please look at the timeline of Nancy Pelosi’s father’s rise in Baltimore politics and how it mirrored Agnew’s own timeline. (<https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%27Alesandro_Jr.>) (<https:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiro_Agnew#Criminal_investigation_and_resignation>)
Read on.
Thomas Ludwig John D’Alesandro Jr. (August 1, 1903 – August 23, 1987) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from Maryland’s 3rd congressional district (1939-47) and subsequently the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland (1947-59). He was the father of former House Speaker and current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
And then look at the political histories of his son and daughter on the same page:
Thomas L. J. D’Alesandro III (born 1929), who also served as Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971
Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro (born 1940), is a Representative from California, who served as the House of Representatives House Minority Leader between 2003 and 2007 and from 2011 to present, and was the Speaker of the House from January 4, 2007 until January 3, 2011. After the 2018 midterms, Pelosi was again nominated to become Speaker.[8]
Both mayors were hounded by allegations of alliances with the Italian mob that ran the underside of Baltimore…which was also (on extensive personal experience in the late ’60s/early ’70s) without any doubt whatsoever the most racist city in the Boston->Washington DC megalopolis. See here (<http://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/san-fran-nan-learned-to-be-a-bully-by-corrupt-father-mafia-dons-and-assorted-criminals/”>) and here (<https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/revealed-jfk-worried-pelosis-dad-associated-organized-crime>) for a primer on her learning years and influences.
Check it out.
This is where some of the current upper levels of the current Democratic Party learned their trade.
Bet on it.
Including Chuck Schumer, whose very position is due to his strong alliances with the now-rogue and racist state Israel and its equally rogue leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. (Netanyahu. Another totally corrupt pol as far as I am concerned.)
Now I am sure I will hear the usual screams of outrage…or at the very least attempts at justification…from the four or five neocentrist posters here who continue attempt to push this supposed “progressive” blog towards the center, but there it is, in black and white. If you are so blind as to think that those D’Alesandros…father, son and daughter…somehow managed to come up clean through the Baltimore sludge that produced Spiro Agnew? I can’t reach you.
I can hear the pleas now.
It was another time!!!
It was just pragmatic politics!!!
I mean…what arrant BULLSHIT this kind of thinking represents!!!
If JFK…whose father was a mob-connected smuggler among many other things and whose very election was made possible by mob influences in West Virginia if not many other places…was “worried” about the D’Alesandro mob connections!!!???
They must have been very heavy.
Think on your party.
Do you want to continue to play patsy with various mobs…including the Saudi and Israel interests and Wall Street among many others…in the name of “pragmatic politics?”
Please!!!
Look at where that game has gotten us over the last 50+ years.
Trump in the White House and the Republican Party busy with redistricting and other hustles…including packing the Supreme Court…so that the eventual popular reaction to Trump’s equally inevitable downfall won’t change a damned thing in terms of the real power structure.
WTFU!!!
We need Bernie Sanders’s Revolution.
NOW!!!
Before it’s too late.
Think on it.
AG
P.S. Gotta hand it to Nancy Pelosi…she beat both her father and her brother in the big-time politics game.
By miles!!!
And no doubt by millions as well.
Probably somewhere well hidden.
She ain’t no dummy!!!
Slick as ice.
Snd just as cold.
