How Debbie Wasserman Schultz, inexplicable DU hero, treats progressive Democrats

[FLAprogressive]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howie-klein/debbie-wasserman-schultz_b_123322.html

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-is-debbie-wasserman-schultz.html

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/03/debbie-wasserman-schultz-debacle-in.html

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/07/another-exceptional-candidate-debbie.html

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/07/debbie-wasserman-schultz-watch_23.html

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/07/debbie-wasserman-schultz-watch.html

[Taverner]

1. Hey we're supposed to "man up" and do whatever the DNC tells us!

Resistance is futile.

Keep buying things.

[FLAprogressive]

3. And she goes on TV a lot, so who cares if she sabotaged progressive campaigns!

[Taverner]

6. They wouldn't put her on TV if she wasn't important!

More important than all of us people

[Sky Masterson]

2. Must people piss on every parade?

:shrug:

[FLAprogressive]

4. Ask Debbie why she pissed on the parade of progressive Democrats running for office

[Teaser]

10. yes. she is the new Mao Tse-Tung.

.

[Sky Masterson]

12. She must be a terrible awful person.

:eyes:

[FLAprogressive]

14. Just a run of the mill DLC-line-toer.

[Sky Masterson]

15. They all are

in some fashion.

[Teaser]

20. SHE IS AS EVIL AS THE KHMER ROUGE!!!!

.

[upi402]

30. She's not Satan therefore she's an angel?

BS

Thanks for jumping into the falacy pool with both feet.
She's in the wrong damn party. stop it!

[Here4DaLinks]

36. Don't waste your breath on the rah-rah robots.

Some people have their head so far up the DLC's ass they cannot see a way out of the mess the US finds itself in.

Still, I'm unsure how electing an oligarch insider is supposed to frame Obama as an outsider?
Also, she looks like a drown rat , styles her hair with mayonaisse and talks like she's eating cheese.

Seriously, these are trifling issues, but presentation counts for a lot in politics and she is woefully negligent in these areas.
And the ones that matter!

[Teaser]

37. WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING HER?

She is terrible.

[Taverner]

8. Yep. Nothing to see her. Curl up into a ball and take your beatings like a man

we have to "man up" after all

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Yes. It's the DU way.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go rinse the pee out of my hair and pop a batch of popcorn.

[bluestateguy]

I agree. I am having a parade and I will not---WILL NOT---have it rained on

nt

[ThomCat]

34. She is a progressive on some very good issues

but she is absolutely corrupt when it comes to issues that affect her personally.

She gets a lot of money from the sugar industry that refuses to allow normalization of trade with Cuba. So even though it is usually republicans who hate Cuba, and Democrats who have been trying to ease restrictions, she fights like hell to maintain the restrictions. She has a PAC that gives out a hell of a lot of money from the sugar industry to influence other dems to maintain that hate against Cuba.

She is personal friends with several republicans in Florida.

Because of those friendships, and because they support her position on some issues, like Cuba, she actively refuses to support democrats that campaign in Florida districts. It is her JOB to support the campaigns of democratic challengers against republican campaigns. So she is refusing to do her job. She is hurting the party. But that's considered okay, because they are only progressive democrats.

It is great that she has some really progressive beliefs. It would be better if she would stand firm and vote for them consistently.

She is well known for holding long grudges, and using her influence to undermine others. As someone who's job it was to provide funding for campaigns, and as an up and coming leader in the party, that is a very considerable problem.

How are we ever going to build a strong progressive wing in the party, or succeed in resisting the republicans as they push the political spectrum further to the right, if she uses her grudges and corrupt deals with campaign sponsors to undermine the progressive candidates who could help pull the political spectrum back to the left?

We have a desperate need of everyone who sincerely want to, and can support progressive issue and pull the spectrum back to the left. Anyone who undermines that is only helping the Republicans.

[quinnox]

5. It sounds like you have a personal issue with her

I can't give much stock to those links either, they look biased to me.

[FLAprogressive]

I do have an issue with someone who is sanctified here but sabotages progressive Democrat campaigns

[Teaser]

7. SHE IS AS BAD AS CHAIRMAN MAO!!!!!

we should call her that.

[upi402]

31. Mao was an authoritarian

so you are getting closer to a premise that supports a conclusion

[phleshdef]

9. The DNC chairman needs to be someone that isn't afraid to get up in Republican's faces.

Thats what I like about the prospects of her appointment. She seems like she may be a lot better at "calling them out" than Tim Kaine was.

[FLAprogressive]

13. Alan Grayson could do that....AND not be a corporate stooge.

[phleshdef]

16. Alan Grayson takes it to too nasty of a level though.

And I personally like him and I can't deny that I didn't cheer him on. But he doesn't know where to draw the fine line and he overreaches because of it. I won't say that he lost his seat completely because of this, but I am pretty sure it played a big part.

[ReggieVeggie]

27. you think a mixed race woman with a little fire

is going to sway ANY one? You must not follow politics. Besides, she's as likely to shit on progressive and liberal ideals as her bosses.

[Modern_Matthew]

17. Seems too blue dog for me. I don't understand the praise, either. nt

[FLAprogressive]

19. it's because she goes on TV a lot.

[EFerrari]

18. Her messaging is great, unfortunately it's a neolib message.

So, :shrug:

[FLAprogressive]

21. But hey, she's on TV a lot, "fighting for Democratic values" when her record and affiliations say

otherwise.

[EFerrari]

23. Yep. n/t

[Ignis]

24. This.

[TheKentuckian]

22. No hero to me but she looks and sounds good and has enough gumption to gently rebuke TeaPubliKlans

even on the TV.

In general, she is pretty damned "Third Way" like the rest of the jokers, chumps, Pollyanna's, and crooks that make up most of our leadership.

[BzaDem]

25. Amazing. And here I was, thinking that there was no way the perpetual critics could spin this as a

"betrayal."

How naive of me to think that there is some action in the universe that would please them.

[FLAprogressive]

26. Not really a betrayal, more like "Same shit different person".

[stevenleser]

32. Not to mention all the links are to one person's opinion of her and spin of her actions. No thanks.

I love the new head of the DNC!

[ChiciB1]

28. Wasserman-Schultz!!! Just What The Democratic Party Needed...

NOT! Looks like the DLC has regrouped, with a bit more REPUKE touch! WHY can't Democrats get their act together. This party has ALREADY caved like an accordion on almost everything, and now we have HER!!

WOW, it just gets harder and harder for me to stand up and be called a Democrat these days. No, I AM a Democrat, a real one. THEM? I have no idea anymore. Each time I think it can't get any worse, it does,

My husband asked me yesterday who I would vote for in 2012 and I REALLY didn't want to answer. I feel like I'm boxed into a corner or maybe out floating in the Gulf of Mexico without a life raft! THIS REALLY SUCKS!

:puke:

[FLAprogressive]

29. No kidding, she has a "progressive" shell which appeals to people here but on the inside she's pure

DLC.

[Ramulux]

33. Thanks for the info

Her relationship with the Diaz-Balart brothers and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is very suspect and really makes me question this choice. Really wish we could have had a more progressive chair.

[Here4DaLinks]

35. Thank you for the lnks and such, I'm kind of out-of-the-loop and this was news to me. nt