DWS to Remain in Driver's Seat for the DNC

[BigBadBrian]

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama wants Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz to stay on as his party’s chairwoman.

Wasserman Schultz has overseen the Democratic National Committee since early 2011. Party officials credit her in part with helping the president carry her home state of Florida, as well as leading the party to an expanded majority in the Senate and more seats in the House.

“I’ve asked Debbie Wasserman Schultz to continue her excellent work as chair of the DNC,” Obama wrote on Twitter Monday. “Thanks for all you do, Debbie.”

The tweet was signed “bo”, which the White House says is a signal that the president wrote it personally.

Wasserman Schultz also took to Twitter to respond, writing, “Thank you, Mr. President. I am honored to serve.”

Democratic officials said Obama asked DNC members to back Wasserman Schultz when they meet in January, just after the president’s inauguration.

A mother of three and a breast cancer survivor, Wasserman Schultz, 46, has represented a reliably Democratic Fort Lauderdale-area district since 2005. Along the way she has earned a reputation as a workhorse and as an outspoken liberal happy to duke it out on television with her Republican counterparts.

Throughout the presidential election, Wasserman Shultz was a particularly prominent spokeswoman for Obama in Florida, the critical swing state where the president eked out a close win in the November election. As a Jew and a strong advocate for Israel, she also provided a bulwark for Obama against Republican efforts to paint him as anti-Israel.

Wasserman Schultz also buoyed her reputation as a fundraiser during the 2012 election cycle, with Democrats noting that she was particularly adept at bringing into the fold donors to Bill and Hillary Clinton who had been wary of supporting Obama. She supported Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.

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[BigBadBrian]

Great news...for Republicans!

[Nickdfresh]

Great news...for Republicans!

They could sure use some, especially as recent polls have the majority of Americans thinking of them as led by fuckwits and beset by doltish ideologues...

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They could sure use some, especially as recent polls have the majority of Americans thinking of them as led by fuckwits and beset by doltish ideologues...

If only the majority would have actually voted last month. How these criminals and traitors kept the House is beyond me.

[ELVIS]

Maybe by being criminals and traitors ??

[Zing!]

Good point.

[Satan]

Great news...for Republicans!

Of course it is. Seeing how Debbie Scatterbrained Lush IS a Republican.

Howard Dean remains the only DNC chair within the last 20 years who was worth a flying dragon fuck.

[Satan]

Maybe by being criminals and traitors ??

Well... actually it was by gerrymandering. Which is technically legal, but still somewhat traitorous.

Numbers don't lie though... more people actually voted for Demoncrats in 2012 House elections. Had the congressional district borders not been changed through gerrymandering, the Demoncrats probably would have regained the majority.

[BigBadBrian]

They could sure use some, especially as recent polls have the majority of Americans thinking of them as led by fuckwits and beset by doltish ideologues...

Those same polls show sagging approval ratings for your boy Barry.

[jhale667]

Those same polls show sagging approval ratings for your boy Barry.

And then you wake up. Your side LOST, start acting like it.

[BigBadBrian]

Your side LOST, start acting like it.

And how would that be?

BTW, lost what exactly?

[FORD]

And how would that be?

BTW, lost what exactly?

Every presidential election since 1988, for one thing. (no, they did not win in 2000 OR 2004). And they didn't win 1968, 1972, 1980, or 1988 without huge amounts of dirty tricks and cheating (as opposed to the blatant fraud of the Chimp's NON-elections)

I'll give them 1984, grudgingly, because Mondale was weak and people bought Reagan's bullshit. But considering they had to rig the Iranian hostage crisis to get him in there in the first place, it's irrelevant.

So the last completely legitimate Republican presidential victory was 1956. And what was the party's platform in that year???

On Labor and Wages: The platform boasted that “the Federal minimum wage has been raised for more than 2 million workers. Social Security has been extended to an additional 10 million workers and the benefits raised for 6 1/2 million. The protection of unemployment insurance has been brought to 4 million additional workers. There have been increased workmen’s compensation benefits for longshoremen and harbor workers, increased retirement benefits for railroad employees, and wage increases and improved welfare and pension plans for federal employees.” It called for changes to the anti-union Taft-Hartley Act to “more effectively protect the rights of labor unions” and to “assure equal pay for equal work regardless of sex.”

On Welfare and Health: The platform demanded “once again, despite the reluctance of the Democrat 84th Congress, Federal assistance to help build facilities to train more physicians and scientists.” It emphasized the need to continue the “extension and perfection of a sound social security system,” and boasted of the party’s recent history of supporting “enlarged Federal assistance for construction of hospitals, emphasizing low-cost care of chronic diseases and the special problems of older persons, and increased Federal aid for medical care of the needy.”

On Civil Rights, Gender Equality, and Immigration: The platform supported “ self-government, national suffrage and representation in the Congress of the United States for residents of the District of Columbia.” With regards to ending discrimination against racial minorities, the party took pride that “more progress has been made in this field under the present Republican Administration than in any similar period in the last 80 years.” It also recommended to Congress “the submission of a constitutional amendment providing equal rights for men and women.” Its section on immigration actually recommended expanding immigration to America, supporting ”the extension of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953 in resolving this difficult refugee problem which resulted from world conflict.”

Now THAT Republican party even *I* would consider voting for!

[Nickdfresh]

Those same polls show sagging approval ratings for your boy Barry.

And that percentage would be?

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Now THAT Republican party even *I* would consider voting for!

*I* like Ike.

[LoungeMachine]

Those same polls show sagging approval ratings for your boy Barry.

Sucks for you to wake up every day for the next 4 years with him as POTUS then...



Ouchie.