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Recollections of Marie Antoinette: Pelosi holds "Let them Eat Cake" Dem Party at her Napa Wine Country Estate

Aug. 12, 2009 (LPAC)—A backlash is coursing through Democratic Party ranks against Nancy Pelosi and the fundraiser "thank you" parties she hosted last weekend, with ostentatious private events Friday at her San Francisco mansion, and Aug. 8 at her Napa Wine Country estate. While millions are unemployed and desperate, Nancy and Paul Pelosi wined and dined 170 richie-riches (e.g. Ann Getty Earhart, an heiress to the Getty oil fortune) and Democratic Party political figures (e.g. David Axelrod) at a "donor maintenance" party at their posh spread in St. Helena, the ritzy Napa Valley town, where Nancy and Paul Pelosi have a seven acre vineyard.

The French Revolution, Marie Antoinette and her fate come to mind. At that time, hunger and want were spreading through France, when Marie Antoinette gave her famous advice to starving people, "Let them eat cake."

At Lyndon LaRouche's suggestion, the LaRouche Political Action Committee has in the works a cartoon of Pelosi as Marie Antoinette. LaRouche points out that Pelosi is actually pleased with the comparisons with Marie Antoinette. It has the feel of a real face uplift — an historical, sociological face uplift! What she should do is resign, and get that burden off her shoulders, he said. It's going to turn out that she's a cut below Marie Antoinette.

Similar Pelosi/Marie Antoinette references appear today in other places. For example, "'Let Them Eat Cake' Democrats," is the headline of an opinion column in today's "Washington Times" by Monica Crowly. She begins by recounting Antoinette's statement made just before the French Revolution, then Crowly writes, "Today's equivalent would be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.... [Such] soulless leaders carry on self-indulgently until they are finally swept away. Marie Antoinette's neck met the business end of a guillotine. Mrs. Pelosi and her band of profligate spenders may well meet the business end of voter's anger next year. It's something she should worry her pretty little head about now, before she loses it."

Another reference is found in a posting today on Salon.com, of an article, "Obama's Healthcare Horror — Heads Should Roll — Beginning with Nancy Pelosi," by Camille Paglia. She goes after Pelosi for denouncing citizens objecting to Obama's "reforms" as an anti-American mob, writing: "And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob,'—a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals."


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