Marxist-Leninists in Napa?

I heard Rush Limbaugh yesterday describe the president and his supporters as "Leninists." Then this morning I turn to Politico and read the following: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... will spend next weekend quietly tending to top party donors and political allies at a series of private events in Northern California."

Driving back to DC from a few days in Canada, I heard Rush Limbaugh yesterday describe the president and his supporters as "Leninists." The last time I listened to Rush, the president was still only a Marxist. I guess he's suffered a downgrade in the past week. Or is it an upgrade? Then this morning I turn to Politico and read the following:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ... will spend next weekend quietly tending to top party donors and political allies at a series of private events in Northern California. The two-day “issues conference” starts next Friday night with a dinner for roughly 170 guests on the back lawn of Pelosi’s multimillion-dollar home in the fashionable Pacific Heights neighborhood in San Francisco. The following day, Pelosi will shepherd her guests to a Napa Valley winery with buildings designed by world-famous architect Frank Gehry; the speaker and her husband, investor Paul Pelosi, own a nearby vineyard worth between $5 million and $25 million, according to her annual financial disclosure report... The weekend event is technically not a fundraiser. In the parlance of fundraising pros, it’s known as “donor maintenance,” a “thank you” from Pelosi to those who have given generously to her and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. To be invited, one must have raised money for theDCCC, been a longtime friend of Pelosi’s or contributed $30,000 to the DCCC this cycle. The maximum an individual may give to a national party committee in any one year.

This gaudy indulgence in the midst of a terrible recession seems to me a very promising line of attack. Vineyard tours while the unemployment rate rises past 10%! How out of touch can you get! Plus - just consider for a minute who gives $30,000 per year to a political party, and why. These aren't idealists. These are trial lawyers, beneficiaries of Congress's health proposals, and stimulus profiteers. But here's one kind of person I would bet you will not find on the speaker's costly lawn: Marxist-Leninsts. So few of them are in a position to donate $30,000. Wouldn't Republicans and conservatives do better to criticize Democrats for what they actually are and actually do - rather than indulge in paranoid fantasies that are too laughable to frighten?