Communist Party Leader Bashes Allen West for calling Democrats...Communists!

[GOP Congress]

Classic Oxymoron of the day...

A leader for the US Communist Party bashes Congressman Allen West for calling Democratic congress critters "Communist." He says West's statement is a "sad ploy" by trying to "cast a shadow" over his "colleagues."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101495296

Communist Party slams Allen West
Source: Politico

A top official of the Communist Party USA on Wednesday ripped Rep. Allen West’s “sad ploy” for claiming that as many as 80 Democratic members of the House are communists.

“I just think it’s an absurd way to cast a shadow over his colleagues. It’s kind of a sad ploy,” Libero Della Piana, a vice-chairman of the national Communist Party, said of the Florida Republican’s charge that about 80 House Democrats were members of the radical party.

“It’s just guilt by association taken to an extreme,” he told POLITICO. He also said there are no members of Congress who are members of the Communist Party – not even avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

“I think it’s just absurd,” Della Piana said.

In a video clip of the event posted Wednesday, West was responding a question from a constituent asking “What percentage of the American legislature do you think are card-carrying Marxists?”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75037.html

So let me get this straight:

A leader of the Communist party is pissed because a conservative has called democrats Communist because it "guilt by association?"

I look forward to the comments in THIS thread... 

[JohnnyReb]

Democrat...liberal...progressive...socialist...communist...that's the scale of evolution of the demcrat party. Some are at different points on the scale but they all lead to "COMMUNIST" in the end.

[Skul]

You know it's bad when even the commies don't want to be compared to the democratics.  
Naturally, there was a bit of selective editing to the original. (Haven't we seen that just recently?)
Ought to be a good fire.

Response to MindMover (Original post)
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 02:59 PM
meeksgeek (20 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

21. Glad to hear a response from the Communist Party on this.

I wonder why? 

[Rebel]

Hey lurkers, how many of you ****ing clowns are sporting an avatar of Che, the female Asian Che, or Karl Marx? ****ing idiots.

[BEG]

Communist Party slams Allen West
Source: Politico

A top official of the Communist Party USA on Wednesday ripped Rep. Allen West’s “sad ploy” for claiming that as many as 80 Democratic members of the House are communists.

“I just think it’s an absurd way to cast a shadow over his colleagues. It’s kind of a sad ploy,” Libero Della Piana, a vice-chairman of the national Communist Party, said of the Florida Republican’s charge that about 80 House Democrats were members of the radical party.

“It’s just guilt by association taken to an extreme,” he told POLITICO. He also said there are no members of Congress who are members of the Communist Party – not even avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

“I think it’s just absurd,” Della Piana said.

In a video clip of the event posted Wednesday, West was responding a question from a constituent asking “What percentage of the American legislature do you think are card-carrying Marxists?”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/n...s/stories/0412/75037.html

So calling someone a communist is "casting a shadow" on someone?  So says the communist party vice-chairman.  See even communists know that being one is a bad thing.

[thundley4]

So calling someone a communist is "casting a shadow" on someone?  So says the communist party vice-chairman.  See even communists know that being one is a bad thing.

The guys are in it just for the chicks. Lib chicks did commies. 

[BlueStateSaint]

The guys are in it just for the chicks. Lib chicks did commies. 

And the commies got diseases!

[Doubleplusungood]

Democrat...liberal...progressive...socialist...communist...that's the scale of evolution of the demcrat party. Some are at different points on the scale but they all lead to "COMMUNIST" in the end.

They have recently moved past even these. Now they are Mansonites who are trying really hard for a race war because they think it will give Obama an excuse to declare Martial Law.

[Rebel]

They have recently moved past even these. Now they are Mansonites who are trying really hard for a race war because they think it will give Obama an excuse to declare Martial Law.

Who's gonna enforce it?

[Doubleplusungood]

Who's gonna enforce it?

The dictator fairy.

[Rebel]

The dictator fairy.

He's nothing without people that can physically enforce it.

[Ballygrl]

This is driving me nuts, I knew I should've bookmarked the article, but I read this morning via Twitter that the Communist Party released a list of Democrats who are also members of their organization, and I'll be darned if I can find it now!

[Chris_]

This is driving me nuts, I knew I should've bookmarked the article, but I read this morning via Twitter that the Communist Party released a list of Democrats who are also members of their organization, and I'll be darned if I can find it now!

It's probably the same list that's been floating around the internet for the last decade. 

[Ballygrl]

Here it is!

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2010/08/american-socialists-release-names-of-70-congressional-democrats-in-their-caucus/

American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 13, 2010, 4:16 PM

The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.
This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:

    American Socialist Voter–
    Q: How many members of the U.S. Congress are also members of the DSA?
    A: Seventy

    Q: How many of the DSA members sit on the Judiciary Committee?
    A: Eleven: John Conyers [Chairman of the Judiciary Committee], Tammy Baldwin, Jerrold Nadler, Luis Gutierrez,
    Melvin Watt, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Barbara Lee, Robert Wexler, Linda Sanchez [there are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee of which eleven, almost half, are now members of the DSA].

    Q: Who are these members of 111th Congress?
    A: See the listing below

    Co-Chairs
    Hon. Raúl M. Grijalva (AZ-07)
    Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-06)

    Vice Chairs
    Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
    Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
    Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-02)
    Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)

    Senate Members
    Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

    House Members
    Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-01)
    Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-02)
    Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
    Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
    Hon. Robert Brady (PA-01)
    Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-03)
    Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-08)
    Hon. André Carson (IN-07)
    Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
    Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
    Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-01)
    Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-05)
    Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-09)
    Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
    Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-07)
    Hon. Danny Davis (IL-07)
    Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-04)
    Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-03)
    Rep. Donna F. Edwards (MD-04)
    Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-05)
    Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
    Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-02)
    Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
    Hon. Barney Frank (MA-04)
    Hon. Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11)
    Hon. Alan Grayson (FL-08)
    Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-04)
    Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
    Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)
    Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
    Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
    Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-02)
    Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
    Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-04)
    Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-09)
    Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
    Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-09)
    Hon. John Lewis (GA-05)
    Hon. David Loebsack (IA-02)
    Hon. Ben R. Lujan (NM-3)
    Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
    Hon. Ed Markey (MA-07)
    Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-07)
    Hon. James McGovern (MA-03)
    Hon. George Miller (CA-07)
    Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-04)
    Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-08)
    Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
    Hon. John Olver (MA-01)
    Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-04)
    Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
    Hon. Chellie Pingree (ME-01)
    Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
    Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
    Hon. Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34)
    Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-01)
    Hon. Linda Sánchez (CA-47)
    Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
    Hon. José Serrano (NY-16)
    Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
    Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
    Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-02)
    Hon. John Tierney (MA-06)
    Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
    Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
    Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
    Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
    Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
    Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

[Ballygrl]

It's probably the same list that's been floating around the internet for the last decade.

It's from 2009, I just posted it.

[Rebel]

It's from 2009, I just posted it.

Communist Manifesto has been floating around for over 100. Doesn't make it less true if it's floated around today. There's a reason Commies are at their events and rallies, and not at Tea Party gatherings. Peep my sig.

[Ballygrl]

Nice sig!