House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) hosted a fundraiser last Thursday evening on behalf of Democratic House candidate John Delaney.

Delaney is challenging Rep. Roscoe Bartlett for Maryland's 6th district, and the Pelosi fundraiser is a sign of national Democrats' determination to take the seat. In redistricting, Democrats dismantled Bartlett's western Maryland district, adding liberal areas of the state around the Washington, D.C., suburbs that made re-election for the 10-term Congressman increasingly difficult.

That said, Bartlett has a rare across-the-aisle popularity among Democrats. Many state and national Democrats privately profess a personal affinity for him, but publicly, they are working overtime to help Delaney.

When asked about his opinion of Pelosi earlier this year, Bartlett described her as “a very nice socialist.”

The fundraiser took place at the Monocle restaurant on Capitolinvolved and the dems sent out their goons. It took them just a couple of weeks to turn the whole damn thing into a liberal funhouse.

I was astonished at how quickly they did it. At first there was stiff resistance from some organizers and others in positions of influence. Then the money came rolling in by the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Suddenly the resisters resisted no more, or else were pushed out of the circle.

The original Occupy movement overlapped with the ideals espoused by the early Teaparty by atleast 50%. There were issues that they disagreed on, but the big thing, bank bailouts, they were in 100% alignment. There were teapartiers involved. TPTB couldn't have that shit. They couldn't have a liberal outfit alligning with conservatives on