Communists: GOP takeover 'capitalist coup'

Monday, November 15, 2010
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Claims Republicans used 'racist' messages, will probe Obama's birth certificate

Posted: November 07, 2010
7:23 pm Eastern

By Aaron Klein
WorldNetDaily

NEW YORK – This week's GOP takeover of the House was not attributable to the tea party movement but was largely the result of campaign cash from secret corporate donors that amounted to a capitalist coup against U.S. democracy, according to the Communist Party USA.

The party claimed Republicans utilized "racist messages" in their campaigns. It speculated GOP politicians will use their new positions to "fulfill their ultimate fantasy of launching investigations into the president's birth certificate and the like."

"It would be such a distraction and such a miserable failure that voters would tire quickly. We could see a recall election in a few weeks," wrote Joel Wendland, editor of Political Affairs, the official journal of the Communist Party USA.

Wendland said the GOP victory was in part the result of "campaign cash from secret corporate donors."

"While the outcome may not be attributable entirely to that single cause, it certainly played a huge role. Indeed, the election could be regarded as little more than a corporate coup against U.S. democracy," he wrote.

Wendland was channeling the White House's accusation the Chamber of Commerce used foreign funds to bankroll GOP attack ads. The chamber says it received less than $100,000 from U.S. corporations overseas and that none of that money went to fund Republican campaigns.

Meanwhile, WND reported that in 2008, Obama's campaign received illegal foreign contributions via the politician's website, including from Palestinian brothers in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

Wendland went on to claim the tea party played no significant role in the elections.

"Clearly, this wasn't a grassroots upsurge," he continued, "but a corporate movement that used the voices of tea party people to link the corporate agenda of lower taxes for the rich, limits on environmental and Wall Street regulation, globalization, etc., to a reform-in-name only movement."

"Republicans rode the tea party wave into power and left that movement behind. Expect to hear nothing of the tea party in a few months," he added.

The communist activist pledged to publish a "study of the impact of racist messages by Republican candidates and voter suppression."

"What can we hope for?" Wendland asked. "A Democratic Senate will check the ultra-right agenda the Republicans push in the House. President Obama will be a stop-gap for much of their craziness."

He called on Democrats to "push forward in this lame duck session."

"I expect, however, they will be disinclined to do much. Perhaps the DREAM Act, an important law that will provide tens of thousands of immigrant youths a path to citizenship through public service," he stated.

WND previously reported a recent adviser to Obama declared that granting citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants would expand the "progressive" electorate and help ensure a "progressive" governing coalition for the long term.

"We reform the immigration laws, it puts 12 million people on the path to citizenship and eventually voters," stated Eliseo Medina, international executive vice-president of Service Employees International Union, or SEIU.

"Can you imagine if we have, even the same ratio, two out of three? Can you imagine 8 million new voters who care about our issues and will be voting? We will be creating a governing coalition for the long term, not just for an election cycle."

Medina and the SEIU are top supporters of Illinois Rep. Luis Gutierrez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security and Prosperity Bill, which seeks to document up to 12 million illegal immigrants inside the U.S.

During the most recent presidential campaign, Medina and Gutierrez served on Obama's National Latino Advisory Council. Also on the council was Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., the co-sponsor of Gutierrez's immigration reform bill.

Medina was a chief lobbyist credited with a change in the longstanding policy of the AFL-CIO, the largest union federation in the U.S. The union reversed its stance against illegal immigration in February 2000, instead calling for new amnesty for millions of illegals.