Wife of ex-con progressive Alinskyite to serve on Obama's debt commission

In order to pretend he cares about the national debt, Obama has appointed a bipartisan commission to tackle the problem. The president appointed several members (including SEIU President Andy Stern) as did congressional Republicans. Today, Nancy Pelosi announced her picks. One of them, Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, is married to a progressive ex-con who wrote an updated version of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

His name is Robert Creamer. His book, Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, is a pseudo-Marxist handbook for remaking American society. The advice he dispenses draws heavily on the tactics of Alinsky, a communist community organizer who inspired Barack Obama. White House advisor David Axelrod has described Stand Up Straight as a "blueprint" for all progressives. Creamer's ties to Democrats run deep, probably because they're all reading from his book. Here's how Creamer suggested progressives should go about reforming health care.

Create a national consensus that health care is a right

Create a national consensus that the health care system is in crisis

Convince political leaders that they owe their elections to the groundswell of support for universal health care face peril if they fail to deliver on health care in 2009

Need not agree in advance on the components of the plan, but foster a process that can ultimately yield consensus

Focus especially on the mobilization of the labor movement and the faith community

Generate emotion: fear, revulsion, anger, disgust

Creamer's tactics were used part and parcel in the recent ObamaCare debate.

Creamer is also a convict. In 2004, he was indicted for writing fake checks to the tune of $2.3 million. Creamer immediately pleaded guilty to the charge and agreed to repay the money. He served five months in prison and another 11 months under house arrest for his crime.

Schakowsky's politics closely mirror those of her husband. She's essentially a socialist, supporting greater government intervention in the economy at virtually every turn. She openly supported the public option during the recent health care debate in the hopes that it would produce a single-payer system. She's mired in the same Chicago cesspool as Barack Obama; Rod Blagojevich even mulled over appointing her to the president's former Senate seat. She also tried to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. What she brings to the table on debt reduction remains unclear. No doubt she'll stand firmly against cutting any social programs or government waste, taking the advice of her radical husband.