Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid’s “Boss”? It Is Not Obama….

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August 2009

For those that don’t know WHO Robert L. Borosage is:

From: Discover the Networks.org

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1170

ROBERT L. BOROSAGE:

• Former New Left radical
• Co-founder of Campaign for America’s Future
• Co-founder of Institute for America’s Future
• Former Director of the Institute for Policy Studies

A former New Left radical and onetime Director of the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Robert Borosage co-founded (with Roger Hickey) both the Campaign for America’s Future and the Institute for America’s Future. He also founded and currently chairs the Progressive Majority Political Action Committee, the activist arm of a political networking organization whose aim is to help elect as many leftist political leaders as possible. In addition, he is a contributing editor at The Nation magazine and a regular contributor to The American Prospect.

Borosage attended Yale Law School and earned a graduate degree in International Affairs from George Washington University. In 1974 he established the Center for National Security Studies, a civil rights / civil liberties organization that regularly accuses the CIA and the FBI of rampant abuses.

From 1979 to 1988 Borosage was Director of the Institute for Policy Studies. In 1988 he left IPS to work on Jesse Jackson‘s presidential campaign, for which he served as a speechwriter and an assistant in framing responses to policy issues.

Borosage also has worked for such political figures as Senators Paul Wellstone, Barbara Boxer, and Carol Moseley-Braun.

In 1989 Borosage founded the Campaign for New Priorities, which called for decreased federal spending on the military and greater allocations for social welfare programs.

In 1996 Borosage and Roger Hickey co-founded the Campaign for America’s Future (CAF), and three years later they established a sister organization, the Institute for America’s Future (IAF). [Note here:  Obama was involved with the IAF between graduating from Columbia and going to Chicago.]

Each year, CAF holds a “Take Back America” conference which the organization describes as “a catalyst for building the infrastructure to ensure that the voice of the progressive majority is heard.” Speaking at one such event in Los Angeles in June 2001, Borosage characterized President George W. Bush’s policies as a mélange of “tax cuts for the wealthy,” “arsenic in the water,” and “salmonella in the food.”

Borosage objects to America’s currently high levels of defense spending, which he attributes to the government’s unspoken but ever-present desire to guard against “the threat of peace.” “[I]t’s not an external threat that drives this budget,” says Borosage. “It’s not an expanded mission. We’ve defined a very bloated mission with this two-war strategy, essentially saying we’re going to be able to move troops instantly around the world, but we could do that at a much lower level of defense spending. So if it’s not the threat, and it’s not the mission, it is inevitably a kind of mobilization by a military industrial complex and a very large, entrenched bureaucracy that mobilized with extraordinary efficiency against the threat of peace, and that is the primary reason we’re spending at almost Cold War levels.”

In 2002, Borosage led the production of CAF’s book StraightTalk 2002, which provided readers with leftist talking points on the major issues of the day. “The StraightTalk strategy,” Borosage wrote, “would help mobilize the Democratic base — unions, African Americans, Hispanics, women, environmentalists — while reaching out to seniors and working families.”

In a November 2002 L.A. Weekly article, The Nation editor David Corn quoted what Borosage had said backstage during a recent anti-war rally sponsored by International A.N.S.W.E.R.  According to Corn, Borosage stated: “This [rally] is easy to dismiss as the radical fringe, but it holds the potential for a larger movement down the road…. History shows that protests are organized first by militant, radical fringe parties and then get taken over by more centrist voices as the movement grows. They provide a vessel for people who want to protest.”

In February 2005 Borosage wrote a piece condemning President Bush’s most recent budget:

“[T]he federal budget … offends common decency even as it cuts investment in our future. … [It] breaks [Bush’s] promise to fund reforms of our schools … America’s health care system is broken. … Yet the president’s budget would cut Medicaid … hurting the most vulnerable in our country … Poverty is rising … Yet the president’s budget will cut food stamps for some 300,000 recipients, eliminate child care for thousands of poor working mothers and slash support for affordable housing. Many Americans still don’t have safe water, but support for sewage systems is to be slashed. … On the other hand, America … spends almost as much on its military as the rest of the world combined. The military is also the largest cesspool of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. But in Bush’s budget, military spending will increase. America will police the world, even as the Bush budget cuts back support for policing its own streets. We now witness an inequality not seen since the Gilded Age. The wealthy capture more of the nation’s income and wealth, while middle-income and poor families are losing ground. Yet the president’s budget will extend tax cuts for the very wealthy, even as it cuts services for the many.”

In December 2006, a month after Democrats had seized control of Congress on election day, Borosage co-chaired the initial meeting of Change America Now, a national campaign of some 30 leftist organizations supporting the “100 Hour” legislative agenda outlined by the victorious party’s leadership. “Democrats ran the most populist elections in memory,” Borosage told those in attendance. “We need to make sure the Democrats deliver on their promises, and that the 100 Hours Agenda is just the first step in creating an economy that works for working people.” [My note here:  Remember out of Nancy Pelosi’s own mouth the words of WHAT they were going to accomplish in the “First 100 hours” of gaining control of the House.]

Borosage has co-authored two books — The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement (with Roger Hickey), and Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical Right (with Katrina vanden Heuvel).

In recent years, Borosage has personally made campaign contributions to a number of congressional candidates, most of them Democrats, including Jesse Jackson, Jr.  He also has given money to Progressive Majority and 21st Century Democrats.

Map of Robert L. Borosage’s connections (Courtesy of Muckety Maps):

http://www.muckety.com/B5D87B0452BDC76905501C6BC2D269CA.map

Robert L. Borosage Connections

Robert L. Borosage personal relations:

Barbara Shailor – spouse

Other current Robert L. Borosage relationships:

Apollo Alliance- director

Campaign for Americas Future – co-director

Campaign for New Priorities- founder

Institute for Americas Future- president

Progressive Majority – chairman

Progressive Majority PAC – chairman

Robert L. Borosage past relationships:

1988 Jessie Jackson Presidential campaign- adviser

 

Well, well…… Borosage is a director at the Apollo Alliance; the alliance tied to radical groups like ACORN, the “green initiative” led by the Green Czar, Van Jones a known communist and the UNIONS the likes of SEIU.  The ones that brag they wrote the STIMULUS BILL.

So again, I ask:  Is Robert L. Borosage the boss of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid?  Seems they follow the marching orders of the PROGRESSIVES.

 

A blog in the near future:  The Progressives: WHO they are and WHAT they want to happen in  America.

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***UPDATE:

BLOG POSTED February 16, 2013

A Supplement to the above…..A MUST READ

Easily Another Progressive Radical Few Americans Know About…..READ, LEARN and EMPOWER…..

 

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