It just got worse. The Democrats

have set a new standard by electing Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as leader

of the party in the House of Representatives. Pelosi is a San Francisco

Democrat who talks and acts like a "San Francisco Democrat."

Her voting record is a liberal legend.

She came to the House in June

1987 to cast the first of several votes against welfare reform. She opposed

the welfare reform legislation Bill Clinton signed in 1996, and opposed

its recent reauthorization. She voted in favor of "partial birth

abortion" that involves the grotesque destruction of a fully-developed

child. While demonstrating her hostility to the innocent, she has repeatedly

voted to protect the lives of convicted murderers sentenced to death for

horrendous crimes.

Correspondingly, she has voted

for increased restrictions on firearms thus taking away the ability of

free citizens to defend themselves against the same predators whose lives

she champions.

In 1998, Nancy Pelosi voted

against barring the National Endowment for the Arts, funded from our tax

dollars, from financing projects that use excretory matter in sacrilegious

artwork. She opposed the expansion of Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs)

that would allow parents to use their own money to send their children

to elementary and secondary schools of their choice. She is also voted

against voucher programs that would allow parents to take their children

out of failing schools and send them to successful schools.

She consistently opposes a

balanced-budget initiative and has voted several times to increase taxes,

but never to lower them. She opposed the Gulf War in 1991, and voted against

the recent resolution on the removal of weapons of mass destruction in

Iraq.

Although she has been tough

on human rights in Communist China, it must be said that her constituents

include many immigrants from China who were persecuted when living there.

However, she is soft on other communist regimes, such as Cuba, and supported

the Marxist government of Nicaragua which was thrown out of power when

it acceded to the people's demand for a free election.

She repeatedly voted to reduce

funding for an antiballistic missile system, and against nuclear testing

to insure our weapons are both modern and safe. When asked if she would

repeal the Bush tax cuts she said, "Yes, yes! That is what the Democratic

Party is for higher taxes!"

Black moderate Harold E. Ford,

Jr. (D-Tenn.) opposed Pelosi. He was quoted as saying, "If you believe

that the same old tired, failed policies of the Democratic caucus is a

direction we ought to travel, then clearly Nancy's your choice."

Nevertheless, a majority of her colleagues, (and don't kid yourselves,

the national party leadership, including Bill Clinton) thought she would

best represent both the past and the future of the Democratic Party.

Bill Clinton ran for office

as a moderate because he knew that he could not be elected if his true

socialist agenda were exposed. Once elected, he moved the country along

a path towards income redistribution and dissolution of our sovereignty

in favor of the U.N. He promoted programs, such as open borders, to enhance

diversity at the cost of national security.

This is the same direction

that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi wants the party to go but Nov. 5 indicated

this is the opposite direction from where the majority of the country

is looking. Sen. Miller apparently won't be inviting the House (or Senate)

minority leader to visit Georgia to stump for Democratic candidates. He

really doesn't deserve to be out there all alone in the cold. But his

party leadership does.

William Fielder

Peachtree City