Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida said Tuesday she will work hard to win a second term for President Obama and usher in more Democrats to elected office when she officially takes over as the new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.
Wasserman Schultz, 44, replaces Tim Kaine, who announced today he is stepping down from the party post to run for the U.S. Senate in Virginia.
Ugh, another guy cashing in with ol’ lobbyist job. Anybody ever heard of something called “PUBLIC SERVICE”?
Unfortunately for Democrats, Wasserman Schultz has always seemed like a talent in Congress, and her Florida seat could easily be one more that falls into the hands of the other party. And unfortunately for us, this move could lower the profile of our upcoming concept site, cockerspanielswholooklikedebbiewassermanschultz.tumblr.com. [USA Today]
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"cockerspanielswholooklikedebbiewassermanschultz.tumblr.com"
I bet the person who came up with that website wasn't exactly surprised that it wasn't already taken at GoDaddy.
Dang, Barbara_i, do you have some kind of direct line hookup to the Wonkette machine? You are without a doubt the most consistent first, second or third poster I've ever seen. And your speed never interferes with your snark. Always on.
If I were connected to the Wonkette machine, I would be the last 3/4 of an inch of their cecum, not quite the anus. Twenty-two feet and 1/4 inches to go and I will be invited to the meetings. I keep bringing doughnut holes to work, just in case.
you are filthy. I like that.
Live to serve.
Mmm. Doughnuts. I think I'm in lurve.
I think I saw a video of said cocker spaniel getting killed by some dickhead and getting cut up for meat by the natives…
That wasn't natives, that was Huckabee's kids.
Where's that dang popcorn popper anyway?
Why do you think Chuck Grassley recently changed his name to 'Grass$ey'? It's the money, honey.
Ass, grass, or grass$ey, or all three.
Grrr! Assley.
Careful! You're one letter away from getting us all Rickroll'd!
When I get to be king all ex-government employees will be barred from lobbying positions for 5 years, all ex-military will have to wait 5 years before working for a defense contractor, and all elected officials can be on camera no more than 2 hours a month, including soundbites, talk show appearances, and any and all public or private meetings (C-Span excluded).
And I'll set a limit on the number of people who can be lawyers.
I agree with what you have to say about the number of lawyers, despite being the mother of two daughters, both married to lawyers. I would like to weed out the lawyers who have phone numbers, such as 1-800-BEDSORE and 1-800-BADDRUG. Yes, they are actual phone numbers.
It was William Shakespeare, (pronounced by Sarah Palin,"shack-a-sphere") who said, "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". King Henry VI Quote (Act IV, Scene II) I say, that we just kill all the bad lawyers.
As an ex-spouse of a lawyer, I have used that line frequently; but I also must point out that, in context, the Dick that says the line is among the crowd that sends a clerk off to death for the crime of being able to read and write. (cf., teabaggers).
Like the Bible, Shakespeare is full of lines.
And like Shakespeare, Charlie Sheen's house is full of lines, usually of "Peruvian marching powder" My train of thought just derailed……
Oh, now you've led me off into visions of lines and goddesses, oh my.
Why did I read that cumulatively as 1-800-BEDBUG?
Or, 1-800-BADD-RUG, which would be the number Trump should call to get some help.
Lets cover all bases–lawyers, hotel accommodations, and the mystical pawpaw patch of Trump's head: 1-800-BAD-RUG-BEDBUG
it's like his hair is on a really heavy acid trip
Don't forget Rand Paul….
I'd really rather forget him, actually.
i am so registering bedsore.com right now!
"There's another: why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddits now, his quillets, his cases, his tenures, and his tricks?" Hamlet V,1 a few lines before ol' Ham decides it's Yurrick
Have to trot out old Swift on this topic:
I said, "there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are slaves. For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. I must then hire another to defend my right, it being against all rules of law that any man should be allowed to speak for himself. Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will. The second disadvantage is, that my lawyer must proceed with great caution, or else he will be reprimanded by the judges, and abhorred by his brethren, as one that would lessen the practice of the law. And therefore I have but two methods to preserve my cow. The first is, to gain over my adversary's lawyer with a double fee, who will then betray his client by insinuating that he hath justice on his side. The second way is for my lawyer to make my cause appear as unjust as he can, by allowing the cow to belong to my adversary: and this, if it be skilfully done, will certainly bespeak the favour of the bench. Now your honour is to know, that these judges are persons appointed to decide all controversies of property, as well as for the trial of criminals, and picked out from the most dexterous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy; and having been biassed all their lives against truth and equity, lie under such a fatal necessity of favouring fraud, perjury, and oppression, that I have known some of them refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty, by doing any thing unbecoming their nature or their office.
But wait, there's more:
"In pleading, they studiously avoid entering into the merits of the cause; but are loud, violent, and tedious, in dwelling upon all circumstances which are not to the purpose. For instance, in the case already mentioned; they never desire to know what claim or title my adversary has to my cow; but whether the said cow were red or black; her horns long or short; whether the field I graze her in be round or square; whether she was milked at home or abroad; what diseases she is subject to, and the like; after which they consult precedents, adjourn the cause from time to time, and in ten, twenty, or thirty years, come to an issue.
"It is likewise to be observed, that this society has a peculiar cant and jargon of their own, that no other mortal can understand, and wherein all their laws are written, which they take special care to multiply; whereby they have wholly confounded the very essence of truth and falsehood, of right and wrong; so that it will take thirty years to decide, whether the field left me by my ancestors for six generations belongs to me, or to a stranger three hundred miles off.
"In the trial of persons accused for crimes against the state, the method is much more short and commendable: the judge first sends to sound the disposition of those in power, after which he can easily hang or save a criminal, strictly preserving all due forms of law."
Here my master interposing, said, "it was a pity, that creatures endowed with such prodigious abilities of mind, as these lawyers, by the description I gave of them, must certainly be, were not rather encouraged to be instructors of others in wisdom and knowledge." In answer to which I assured his honour, "that in all points out of their own trade, they were usually the most ignorant and stupid generation among us, the most despicable in common conversation, avowed enemies to all knowledge and learning, and equally disposed to pervert the general reason of mankind in every other subject of discourse as in that of their own profession."
According to Mark Twain: (I think I remember this rightly)
"If a small town has just one lawyer, he'll starve, but if another one moves in, they'll both get rich."
Ooh, ooh, can we make them wear silly hats? I so wish them to wear silly hats.
And make them dye their skin orange.
fascist.
Wasserman Schultz is a Democrat In Name Only, and DINOs are the only candidates she's going to help.
Whenever you wonder if the Democratic party can get any more worthless, they answer, "YES WE CAN!"
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If the rest of the Democrats had done better and Tim Kaine hadn't put in such a lackadaisacal performance I could see where that criticism was coming from. But in this case, calling Wasserman Schultz a DINO and predicting capitulation is like blaming a colonel for the general's failure (though it's not all Kaine's fault — Citizens United was pivotal too). I'm willing to allow that DWS could've gotten the job by saying what she'd do differently. I'm hoping so, in fact.
Doesn't it matter any that she's dead cute?
So what you're saying is she's a Debbie DINO?
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida said Tuesday she will work hard to win a second term for President Obama
She will make him support Democratic policies?
her Florida seat could easily be one more that falls into the hands of the other party
Oh, Obama, how many clever ways will you think up to help the Republicans?
Snark off. I've been hearing this DINO talk tonight about DWS, but I don't get it. Every time I've seen her on any of the talk shows she has been a strong advocate for demo positions and very good at rebutting Repug talking points. I like her. (I don't think she looks like a cocker spaniel, either. Or else I find cocker spaniels attractive. One of the two.)
Agreed, 'cept for the cocker spaniel appreciation. If that breed of dog were attractive it wouldn't have been named after Joe Cocker. Just another gloss over by the Disney mythmakers. Besides, they are all sluts who will hook up with the first tramp that comes along.
Her Democratic Bona Fides are in question. She refuses to speak out against some of the most strident Right-Wing politicos in her home State and I have yet to understand why.
Wasserman-Schultz is a badass. If she brings back the fifty-state strategy, she'll more than make up for the seat she endangers by leaving. Also she's a mom and a cancer survivor, so expect the Republicans to fall over themselves trying to portray her as an out-of-touch elitist. And she's got a voice like a rusty saw, but it sounds like Joni Mitchell when she's putting the full nelson on some conservative jackass on tv. So great choice — I look forward to her kicking ass.
Yes, I hope she kicks some R ass. But I would like to see her ass kicking too.
Sorry, I just had to see that in print.
I SINCERELY hope you are right, Wookie.
I don't think she has to quit her elected office to be DNC chairperson.
It's not like members of the minority party in the House actually get to ever DO anything.
Except to teach the majority leader how a bill gets passed.
she's not quitting.
That's what I heard, too. She can do it all.
"Anybody ever heard of something called “PUBLIC SERVICE”?"
Depends on who's definition of public service you're using, the Koch Bros' or Mother Teresa's?
People gotta be more careful with this "DINO" shit. I've voted Democratic for 41 years now, and for that whole time I've been to the "left" of the average Democrat. That doesn't mean that only people to my left are "real" Democrats.
The party includes some people who are way more liberal than me, quite a few who are in the same ballpark, and a greater number who are more "moderate", but nevertheless well to the left of the average Republican. Not all Democrats are liberals, just like it used to be that not all Republicans were lunatics.
Now, it's true that there has to be some kind of ideological horizon, or there is no distinction at all between the major parties. At the right end of the Democratic distribution, there are the "Blue Dogs" (a dying breed after 2010). They may actually be well to the left of their local Republican competition, but what defines them is that they are not noticeably different to the national-average Republican. They can reasonably be called DINOs (hello, Heath Shuler).
Wasserman Schultz is a "non-liberal" or "moderate" Democrat. IMO, she is to the left of Tim Kaine, and she is certainly more aggressive than Tim Kaine. If she claimed to be a liberal, I'd be happy to call her an LINO; but as Democrats go, she's about as good as we can expect these days.
Very much in agreement with you. In NJ Christie didn't win. Corzine lost. The effort to get traditional democratic voters out that year was painfully futile. Now we all pay with pain. My property taxes are 16.5% higher for 2010 over 2009 and the total is not yet known for 2011 as the town is still waiting on the final decisions concerning a potential 11% increase due to his cuts in education funding.
Agreed try living out here in beet red Idaho, Walt Minnick may have been a DINO but at least he could be counted on to not call the President a Kenyan and wouldn't vote to ban globes because they weren't in the bible. Look up Raul Labrador he is a real fucking gem.
Faint praise, indeed, Shave, (Whimper).
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is awesome. She goes on the Stephanie Miller show. Name someone else you would prefer instead of just whipping out DINO bullshit.
There's our side and then there's their side. Pick one or lie down and give up.
Why the fuck won' Steph run? I'd vote for Randi Rhoades, too, if I only had the chance.
Alright, who brought the _INO acronym nonsense to my Wonkett?
Besides, how does one tell the difference between a "real Democrat" and a "fake?" One has testicles?
anyway, when you look at how insanely right wing the mainstream GOP is right now, how much a few 38% mandaters are fucking everything up, I'll take anyone fighting for our side to crush those pricks.
Some WINO, that's who.
Hey, I resemble that remark! At least on weekends, and also most Thursdays.
I love DWS, I have seen her reduce Republican men to eunuchs on TV, I think she is an inspired choce and I am really fucking sick and tired of the whole DINO thing, it makes us sound like Free Republic morons with their RINO nonsense . This country is really fucking conservative and trending right at the moment so I think we need to put on our big-girl panties and deal with that.
I agree. Us Democraps need to despise the Rethugs more than we despise ourselves.
I think the country is more reactionary than conservative trending, but thats just my opinion. Excuse me now, I have to go put on my Spanx and play "wack-a mole" with the local Libertarians.
Cheers!
Miss Limey, haven't you heard? Underwear's no funtowear!
"And unfortunately for us, this move could lower the profile of our upcoming concept site, cockerspanielswholooklikedebbiewassermanschultz.tumblr.com."
Pix or GTFO!
She has potential, if she can stay above room temperature. Breast Cancer is a bad motherfucker.
Will the GOP fail the Wasserman test?
Typing Debbie Wasserman Schultz over and over again is going to get boring. Can we just call her Lady and be done with it?
You can do what we constituents always do, and say DWS. Much easier on the fingers.
Kaine might as well take a shot at pubic service again…..he sucked way too hard as DNC Chair.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is my hero. XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
I would totally vote for her in 2016.
Ya know what, I think I would too.
Tim who?
Tim Kaine was Obama's worst move thus far. Progressives won the demos the election in a land slide, not the fucking corporatists. And Wasserman-Schultz isn't an improvement. She's AIPAC's girl. Those fuckers are now putting pressure on Obama. The MIC is not making enough profits. Let's turn mid-east turmoil into a power grab. That's what we're really good at.
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