Mr. President, we need a new DNC chair
Mr. President, we need a new DNC chair #FireWassermanSchultz #DNC
https://t.co/ArbP1p1gik— Jonathan Tasini (@jonathantasini) May 19, 2016
Jonathan Tasini, writing an opinion piece over at CNN, states the obvious: Debbie Wasserman Schultz needs to go and Mr. President is the man to make it happen.
(CNN) — The President of the United States has a phone call to make.
He needs to call Debbie Wasserman Schultz and request that for the good of Democratic Party unity and to best Donald Trump in November, she step aside.
It is clear that the Democratic Party is headed for a tumultuous convention, one in which advocates for two very different visions of what the party should stand for will wrestle to try to shape its platform -- not to mention nominate our standard bearer. In this process, we will need to look up to the podium to see a leader who can rise above the fray to inspire confidence on both sides. Wasserman Schultz does not meet that standard.
As an individual, Wasserman Schultz has every right to support a candidate. However, the position of Democratic National Committee chair requires resolute neutrality, both in perception and in practice. Yet at major milestones in the primary race, Wasserman Schultz's actions have been anything but neutral -- to the extreme detriment of the party.
I encourage you to read Jonathan's entire piece. He lays out the case of DWS's partiality very well.
I don't think that the prez would like to get involved but I also don't believe that he wants to see the wreckage of the Dem. party in Philadelphia.
If you'd like to make your voice heard, there are some petitions circulating for DWS's ouster. As of Thursday morning, a MoveOn.org petition calling for Wasserman Schultz to resign had 76,146 digital signatures. A similar petition at Change.org had 60,525. Another on CREDO Action's website had 86,291. Let's get this done.
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Is anyone out there?
Hello, hello, can you hear me?
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I'm right here R. Ann :) n/t
LOL, vl!
I thought Obama might answer and say he was going to give DWS the axe.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Haha, love that! He's probably thinking that n/t
He probably wishes he could
how fascinated I will be if my original assessment of Barack Obama turns out to be true--that he really believed in all that Hopey Changey stuff and was going to Fix Washington until he got sat down, tied up and force-fed Zapruder films narrated by TPTB threatening him and his family if he didn't Go Along With How It Is. I always envisioned that particular Power That Be as "the previous POTUS". And because Georgie Boy was such a dimwit, they had to pass him by, so naturally, Sweet Old Bill got to do it.
THAT Obama would love to give DWS the axe, all right--straight down the middle of her forehead. And Bill and Hill would be next on the list.
Oh, to have that actually be true. Alas, that's only in the movies....but what the hell IF it was really true?? The mind reels...
So much for meritocracy...
She should have been gone after the 2014 midterms. There is no excuse. She's corrupt and incompetent. Even loyalist Democrats agree that she should go. So why is she still in charge of the DNC?
Somebody has to take the fall
when Trump wins. She stays until then is my bet.
"You can't just leave those who created the problem in charge of the solution."---Tyree Scott
You, sir, are a professional
Which is why we love you!
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Remember Axelrod chuckling about losing the House?
We're "certainly" going to lose it, and that will be fine. He wouldn't have talked like that on the Sunday news programs if it wasn't Obama's position. So was the loss a feature or a bug?
I have this crazy CT, that DWS was part of the deal
that HRC make with Obama to bring her supporters over to him. I also think that's how she got Sec. of State. All of it so she could steal the presidency in 2016.
It's not so crazy, vl.
I've thought the same thing, myself.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
That would explain a lot.
Twain Disciple
The Prez has already gotten involved--he's expressed
his support for FSC at a Dem fundraiser, not too long ago.
Would like to see DWS fired, but since [as everyone's acknowledged] she's a FSC minion, wouldn't count on it.
Earlier today, FSC said to Chris Cuomo (CNN) that the primary is over--everyone needs to get with the program.
I expect that we'll see similar (although a bit tempered) language from PBO, soon--even before the convention.
IMO, it's time get on the offense (regarding FSC's declarations), instead of staying on the defense. But that's just my 2 cents!
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FSC. ????
Orwell was an optimist
Former Secretary Clinton? (guessing)
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
Works for me. Tnx
Orwell was an optimist
FSC = “Former Secretary Clinton”
I don’t know why so many people avoid using “HRC.” Perhaps it’s because HRC can stand for “Human Rights Campaign” as well as “Hillary Rodham Clinton”?
Thanks, HD & LL! ;-D EOM
Everyone thinks they have the best dog, and none of them are wrong.
"Payday Schultz"
"Payday Schultz"
New nickname.
Gets her for collusion with loan sharks and raises the question of influence of money in her running of the party.
She has led the party off the cliff twice now, losing ground everywhere. Train wreck. I guess it's hard trying to act like republicans but needing working people's votes. Loser.
"Fear is the mind-killer" - Frank Herbert, Dune
Well, I, for one, LOVE IT!
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
Currently wiping coffee off computer screen....
P Gordon Lippy-
Good one!
Thanks for the laugh!
Peace -
Murph
Maybe...Payday Wasserman Schultz.
Same alliteration, same number of syllables. Rolls off of the ol' tongue doncha know?
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
On cue, new email from Tim Canova
We can’t save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed.
- Greta Thunberg
Too late for this election cycle :-)
DWS should never have been appointed to the chair. It was a poor choice and has caused a "YUUUUUGE" catastrophe. We will end up with Hillary as the nominee and Wall Street will continue its rule over the people. I don't think orange "Clown Boy" will be elected, but then I didn't believe Ronald Reagan be elected much less re-elected.
Television and corporate owned "News" have caused elections to be turned into circuses. And America will suffer the consequences.
"A government for protecting business only is but a carcass
and soon fails by its own corruption and decay."
-- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888), Transcendentalist, writer
and philosopher.
I agree it is too late to
I agree it is too late to terminate DWS. This is just a ploy to unite the party and it will not work. You cannot trust the majority of politicians, but the Democratic Party for the past six years has been very suspect. This year with the HRC nomination the curtain on the corruption was pulled back for the world to see. They have lost all creditability with the members of the party and voting public. Floating this idea that you have to support Hillary because Trump is too scary is ridiculous. The Clinton's are a greater threat to our democracy, economy and the world.
If the DNC and elected pols are worried, They need to do the right thing and get behind Bernie. They are worried they will lose their lobbyist money. Now is the time for them to show their leadership, it is a true "Profiles in Courage " moment. Sadly, I do not see leadership skills in their DNA.
But they can't "get behind Bernie"
without losing their Special Brand of Gravy Train.
They've got to decide between America and Not-America, when they decide whether Democrats Need To Win, and They Can Only Win With Bernie Sanders. That Gravy Train is grotesque--it is immoral and wrong and anyone trying to save it is a traitor to the rest of us. So they need to stow that thing, preferably by driving it off a cliff so no one else can commandeer it and run over the whole country with it.
This is why Bernie Sanders is WINNING--because he GETS that, and so do a lot of others. The conductors and the staff of that unholy crooked bullshit need to decide if they're Americans or not. Full stop. Somebody ought to frame it that way, in fact, straight-up, in a way that it's well-understood.