I Warned You, Didn't I?

Didn't I warn you all last week about George Soros and his plot to overthrow President George Bush? Well, some of his seeds are beginning to bear fruit:

Hollywood's New Generation power and money brokers gathered Tuesday night in Beverly Hills to organize and streamline fundraising efforts to unseat President Bush.

"We're going to take our country back!" declared a voice in the crowd, which was greeted by cheers at the Hilton. "Bush is the great unifier! We are unified against him and his policies!"

Organizers claimed attendance -- and financial pledges resulting from the event -- surpassed their "wildest expectations."

Activist Laurie David came out swinging during a press conference before the proceedings, citing a report in this space which revealed the existence of an invitation headed "'Hate Bush 12/2 - Event."

While drawing distance from the electronic invite [she claims the subject line of her email was altered], David, nevertheless, explained how "Hate Bush" served as a surprising rallying call to gather on the boulevards.

"Tonight's meeting was organized on behalf of Americans Coming Together and the Media Fund," David told the cameras.

Americans Coming Together (ACT) is a Soros-sponsored front group specifically created for this purpose.

Tax cuts to benefit the wealthy … More arsenic and mercury in the water; fewer parks, wildernesses and forests for our future … Turning back the clock on civil rights, on women’s rights, on workers’ rights.

It’s time to fight back against the extremist Bush agenda.

Look on the group's website and you don't find Soros' name, but what you do find is a lot of the usual suspects:

Ellen R. Malcolm, President of ACT, who began EMILY’s List to elect pro-choice Democratic women candidates and built it into the largest political action committee in the country. Malcolm will lead the effort to build ACT’s membership and raise $75 million to support ACT’s voter contact program.

Steve Rosenthal, Chief Executive Officer of ACT, was Political Director of the AFL-CIO from 1996-2002, where he developed a groundbreaking voter contact program that increased voter turnout of union members by 4.8 million during a time when nonunion turnout decreased by 15 million. He will design and execute ACT’s voter contact program.

Gina Glantz, Treasurer, has a distinguished 30-year career in campaigns and grassroots organizing. She was National Campaign Manager for the Bill Bradley for President campaign.

Minyon Moore heads Dewey Square’s state and local practice. She was formerly Chief Operations Officer of the Democratic National Committee and before that Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of White House Political Affairs.

Carl Pope is Executive Director of the Sierra Club, an organization of 700,000 environmental activists. Pope has spent 30 years in the environmental trenches, and worked to enact such statutes as the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, the Superfund and California Desert Protection Act.

Cecile Richards is President of America Votes, a coalition of 17 national organizations working together to educate and mobilize voters in the 2004 elections on a broad range of issues including the environment, civil and human rights, women’s rights, choice, education and labor.

Andy Stern is President of the Service Employees International Union, the largest and fastest growing union in the country.

That's not all. Go to this story and you learn more names:

Internet gossip Matt Drudge gleefully seized upon the "Hate Bush" story yesterday, noting that the meeting will be chaired by Harold Ickes, Bill Clinton's former White House deputy chief-of-staff and Clinton/Al Gore campaign manager, and Ellen Malcom, founder of Emily's List, a group dedicated to electing pro-choice, Democratic women. Former AFL-CIO political director Steve Rosenthal will also chair, according to an invite obtained by PAGE SIX.

But Ariel "Ari" Emanuel, a founding partner of the powerful Endeavor talent agency, brother of Clinton White House staffer Rahm Emanuel and agent to Larry David and "West Wing" creator Aaron Sorkin, bristled at the "Hate Bush" hullabaloo....

Others expected at today's 7 p.m. session include "Seinfeld" co-star Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Julie Bergman, producer of "G.I. Jane" and "The Fabulous Baker Boys;" Naomi Foner, screenwriter for the Halle Berry flick "Losing Isiah;" Scott Burns, creator of the "Got Milk?" ad campaign; former "T.J. Hooker" actress Heather Thomas; Jamie Mandelbaum, an entertainment lawyer who represents Hilary Duff; and United Talent Agency agent Jay Sures, who recently hosted a fund-raiser for Democratic presidential wannabe Gen. Wesley Clark at his Brentwood, Calif., home.

Recognise any connections? The Clinton name seems to come up quite a bit, doesn't it?

But not Soros. You have to go here to find that out:

Soros’s biggest contribution to date — at least the biggest that is publicly known — is a $10 million gift to America Coming Together, the new Democratic group that will coordinate voter turnout in competitive states across the country.

Soros’s gift is the largest single political donation from an individual in history, surpassing the $7 million check given to the Democratic Party by Hollywood producer Haim Saban in 2002.

Why is this so important? Why should you care? Because, after working for years, with the support of the major print and news media, to pass the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill, the Democrats have seen that they are on the losing end, not the Republicans, so now they want to evade campaign finance reform!

Of course, those old-style soft-money contributions to the parties were outlawed by the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform law. Because of that, groups like America Coming Together — known as 527s because of the section of the tax code that provides for them — are now taking over much of the work that the Democratic Party used to do.

It’s legal, but certainly not in the reform spirit. “I think this is a new form of soft money,” says Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity. “I have a hard time seeing what the difference is between a soft-money donor to a party and a big 527 donor, especially when both give million-dollar checks.”

One might assume that advocates of reform would not want to take part in the world of 527 soft money. But look at Soros.

The website of his foundation, the Open Society Institute, lists lots of grants to reform groups in the last few years. There is $625,000 to Common Cause, $2.5 million to the Brennan Center for Justice, $1.2 million to Public Campaign, $125,000 to Democracy 21, $1.7 million to the Center for Public Integrity, $75,000 to the Center for Responsive Politics and $650,000 to the Alliance for Better Campaigns.

Their common goal, in the words of Public Campaign’s mission statement, is “to dramatically reduce the role of big special interest money in American politics.”

He's now playing both sides. I wonder if the groups he's funding will come out against what ACT is doing? Or will they mysteriously remain silent?

One more angle on this story is the spokesperson/organiser that Drudge mentions for "Hate Bush," Laurie David. She's already active on the environmentalist front. And she's the wife of former "Seinfeld," and current "Curb Your Enthusiasm," producer Larry David, who had this to say about his wife:

Once I came home from playing golf. "What are you doing?!" she screamed. "Don't you dare come in here. You've got pesticides on your shoes. Those golf shoes cause cancer. I don't want them in my house!" But the worst of it was the night I got a call at work. It was 10 o'clock at night. I was doing a rewrite.

"Your wife is on the phone!"

"Yes?"

"Mitsubishi's building a salt mine in San Ignacio."

"Honey, I've got a show tomorrow."

"Didn't you hear a word I said? They're endangering the gray whale!"

For the next two years I couldn't have one conversation without hearing the word Mitsubishi. "Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi!" She was obsessed with Mitsubishi. She'd go up to strangers on the street. "Don't buy anything from Mitsubishi. They're killing the whales!" Then she dragged me down to San Ignacio to see the whales. For three days I slept in a tent, drank from a canteen and conducted my business in an outhouse. She actually got to touch a whale, and had her first orgasm in six years.

As you can see, Soros' movement is picking up steam and recruits. Don't forget, he's done this before in Eastern European countries successfully. He's got practice, and he's got trained and experienced folks working for him. Worst of all, he's got an enormous pile of money to work with and the motivation to use it all, if need be. He's a dangerous man and bears close scrutiny. Many folks on the Left think George Bush is the most dangerous man in America, but I really think it is George Soros instead. Dislike Bush all you want, but everything he's done has been above-board, reported in the press, discussed everywhere and right out there under the glare of scrutiny. Soros is working quietly, hoping no one notices until its too late.

To end this on a lighter note, I wonder if the sponsors of the "Hate Bush" event will try to spread their message across the country, perhaps by using "Two Minute Hates?" Would they even get the irony? http://www.newspeakdictionary.com/go-movie.html#2min