Who Said this?

“It is a matter of life or death. We’re one job loss away when you have a pre-existing condition from being uninsurable. And that’s — that’s unacceptable, and that’s what health care reform did for Americans.”

Yes?
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL):

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/03/24/wasserman_schultz_keeping_health_care_reform_a_matter_of_life_or_death.html

this was another Good Job Brownie moment

Is Wasserman Schultz a blue dog?

is 2012 going to be the year of the blue dog? NO

Me thinks no Dem in the USA will run on the platform of working well with GOPers, because GOPers don’t work with Dems.

Great choice. Too bad her talent will be wasted helping reelect a loser like Obama. Perhaps a qualified Dem candidate will run.

Wasn’t she a Hillary cheerleader?

Sunday show bookers everywhere despaired at the prospect of actually having to feature a woman on their programs.

ROTFLAO!!!

*G*

Sunday show bookers everywhere despaired at the prospect of actually having to feature a woman on their programs.

Snark or truth (or both)?

I got no linky, but think i recall some scathing diaries, comments and issues regarding DWSchultz here at FDL . . . around the time of the Great Healthcare Sell Out maybe?

Perhaps a Pup in The Know can enlighten as to just how proggy she is?

& Synoia,

Easy.

Sunday talks just won’t invite her.

YER no fun!

*G*

Try clicking on her name at the bottom of the post & see what FDL posts come up.

They’ll invite Lieberman instead.

Debbie Wasserman Sellout?

Ow, Gawd. The hits just keep on comin’.

Is Wasserman Schultz a blue dog?

Version 3.6 or thereabouts. She will be a decent fundraiser. I’m not a D W-S fan, but she is impressive when she believes in an idea or in legislation.

She’s a predictably terrible choice for the people, though not for the corporations. She’s basically a female rahm emanuel-lite. No, she’s not a blue dog, she’s a “new democrat” … big f’ing difference there, just basically a rebranding of the same shit.

Here’s a little on her: http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2011/02/debbie-wasserman-schultz-eager-to-prove.html

Z

This is sad news. I’ve always liked and enjoyed listening to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz but now she is going to adopt the Obama say nothing, do even less political philosophy. Sad day for a good Democrat, why didn’t Obama choose Former Rep. Alan Grayson?

I would guess she not much of a progressive if the wh pick her. Good to see nothing will change at demodogs headq except less money from the little people.

Because he hates the little people and loves ws

Here’s some more stuff on her from downwithtyranny, which is notoriously tough … aka objective … on scumbags like emanuel and this woman:

http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2010/10/republicans-and-blue-dogs-plotting-to.html

Z

Another example of the Democratic leadership sticking their thumb in the bases eye.

Remember this was a leader of the Red to Blue team who would not support Democratic candinates running against true wingnuts (South Florida Republican representatives Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) in 2008 because she considered them “friends” and Collegues on the same state delegation.

So now we have a DNC chair who feels issues about the public good, public health and general welfare should properly take a back seat to her personal unwillingness to offend her “friends”.

Well they aren’t friends of the Democratic grassroots or are they friends of the publics health and welfare.

With her at the DNC and the Messina at the head of Obama’s Reelection campaign anyone to the left of Newt should expect to find tire tracks on thieer clothes from being throw under the bus to appease the leaderships’s “rethuglican friends and in the name of reaching out to those who have the silver to pay the salaries of Messina and Schultz.

How long until we hear that these two have invited the Koch brothers to help write the D’s platform?

This lady puts out a good … read misleading … soundbite, but behind the scenes she’s no different than all the other corporate dems … and obama didn’t make her that way.

Z

About a 1/2 mile wide and an inch deep. IMO

Eh? Unsurprised. I guess the only positive thing I can find to say is that it’ll be hard for Wasserman-Schulz to be *worse* than Kaine. Now that I’ve said that, Ms W-S will probably sally forth to show me how WRONG I can be.

That the WH picked W-S says volumes. The abridged version is: W-S is working for the Elites, not the voters, and certainly not for dfh true progressives. Typical.

Agree that the Sunday shows have just sent out their invites to LIEberman in droves in an effort to AVOID inviting a dreaded XX chromosome type onto their vaunted, hallowed, XY chromosome shows. No great loss. Who can bother to watch that trivial drivel anyway?

I assume you mean how long before we find out the Kochs have been in the backroom all along? Wikileaks is in disarray now so these kinds of revelations could be years distant. But certainly no surprise.

More about this corporate sellout:

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/07/14/debbie-wasserman-schultz-wont-draw-lines-in-the-sand-except-when-she-does/

http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/013920.html

Z

Agree. At this point, it’s nearly a foregone conclusion anyway. Who needs WikiLeaks for this? It’s pretty darn obvious who’s running Obama, and it’s sure not the voters…

Enough about this corporate sellout.

Anyone know when the Wisconsin Supreme Ct. election results come in and is FDL covering it?

Go Kloppenberg.

She’s a New Democrat…as in DLC 2.0:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrat_Coalition

I hope she is ready and geared up for the masses screaming and running towards DC over Social Security and Medicare take away.

She better get her speech writers on it yesterday!

Thank you. That’s the red flag I had filed in my brain and why I had a red flag. You provide the excellent background and direct information that caused me to set that red flag. I really like this woman, but this friends over politics thing is even worse than being a blue dog. Still I suspect we should appreciate what she reveals to us about the true nature of the congressional “club.”

Obama and the Dems have a woman problem. Dems lost women hugely in 2010.

This is supposed to draw women back in. Unlike Kaine, DW-S is pro-choice.

But this woman’s opinion: too little, too late. It’s hard to see the Dems as really supporting women when there are over 350 anti-woman bills pending in state leges and the WH remains silent, when they’re cutting WIC and food stamps, when they’re silent in the face of the savaging of the public sector (majority women workers.)

If they cave on cutting Medicare and Medicaid — well who ends up with most of the burden of providing unpaid labor/care for elderly relatives and sick children. Women, of course! (What a wonderful way to get women out of the workforce and free up scarce jobs for men — get them back into the home taking care of family members dumped by the govt. It’s a two-fer! Unemployment crisis “solved” AND government spending cut.)

Anyone know when the Wisconsin Supreme Ct. election results come in and is FDL covering it?

Dayen mentions this in today’s roundup.

BRAIN BLEACH!

;-)

I wish somebody would corner Ryan and the repugs on the issue of how many jobs across America will be lost if they cut the Social Security Administration in DC and every city across the country!

Those are some facts that need to be made public now!

The White House and the Democrats might have more credibility with women if they stopped listening to cave-in consultants like Mara Vanderslice (who advised them against talking about abortion as a constitutional right, which is like not referring to an F-5 tornado as severe weather). And stopped sucking up to the likes of Rick Warren; they’re not going to his fiock’s votes–ever.

Yeah, didn’t she pretty much kill any woman’s rights issues in the Healthcare Giveaway? Something around the Hyde Amendment maybe?

Another fuckin’ neoliberal.

Who could have anticipated?

yes she was. but she has supported obama 100% after he won. she is a great choice. she is articulate, knows her facts, can stand u to fix news and any tea bagger/goper.

nah,more like an ordinary people problem.Tha fact of the matter they don’t care about the average American.

I’m not sure how to view this. I feel like this is the administration’s tacit admission they have a very big base problem but they want to only superficially deal with it. They keep putting more traditionally Liberal politicians (though reliably corporate ones) into positions of power so they can have the appearance of appealing to their base without threatening the beloved corporate masters.

Thanks for those two, Z . . . exactly the kind of stuff I vaguely recall.

‘Preciate you digging that up and sharing it.

wrong. the gop have a woman problem. you have members of the party saying there is no such thing as rape and wanting to defund planned parenthood and pbs. not mention supporting rapists, child molesters. and lets not leave out he wisconsin judge, posser, who called a female judge a bitch. this has angered women to know end.

Yep! It’s no wonder why he hates teachers and nurses.

Those are not qualities I would call progressive nor one’s I give a shit about.

But nice whitewash there . . . very centrist and Kochy like.

A lot of truth there.

That said, women being encouraged to stay home and take care of ill/elderly family members will upset the nursing home industry. They pay Congress more money than women do.

OT – What time EDT do the polls in WI close?

Today, when Ryan announced this “Road to Prosperity, I found that the disdain that Republican men have toward Republican women, was quite interesting. To wit, 11 toe tappers before the microphone and no Republican women were present or perhaps, not even invited.

Now, if the Big W-S doesn’t speak to this on her first appearance on the Sunday Morning Talking Show, the Democrats have lost the ball game, via default due to incompetence.

One needs to look to Janet Napolitano’s political career and realize that President Obama will need a small percentage of Republican women to cross the aisle and vote for him, come next year.

Jaango

All this talk about lil wimmin Rs vs Ds.

Another example of Ds suck less.

The D wimmin are warmongering heartless pieces of crap.

The R wimmin are worse.

*g*

So tell me I’m wrong. *g*

Who needs a buncha wimmin when you’ve got the New Young Guns?

(Yes, I just threw up in my mouth…)

I was grinnin’ cuz you’re right.

Tim Kaine will not be missed. What a douche bag.

Don’t ya know it’s the lesser of two evils?

Elected by elderly Tea Partiers vicariously reliving their fantasy youth.

Exactly. The fantasy youth they never had. Just looking at that photo makes me nauseous. Some very sleazy, dirtbag MFs…

I know. I wuz just jerkin’ ur chain.

That’s drilled into my tiny wittle wimmin’s brain. And the next time the greater of evils wins, there will be no end of commenters who show up to castigate us who didn’t vote for the Ds.

Fuck ‘em.

Shoto,

Thanks for the link but I will pass on such an opportunity for wasting money.

Regardless, I am starting the “I will vote for Clarence Thomas” Campaign on the premise that maybe, just maybe, Obama will become embarrased and actually jettison his Neo-liberal equivalency.

Jaango

Sunday show bookers everywhere despaired at the prospect of actually having to feature a woman on their programs.

^Citation Needed.

I have always liked seeing Debbie when she has appeared on TV.

Without force. No force, no rape.

Eli is upstairs!
WI Supreme Court Election Liveblog

Hilarious, another douchebag. We better get another party quick, this one’s toast.

2010? Try 2008. In 2008 we had a female candidate that kickede backside and was neck and neck with Obama and the DNC put their proverbial boot on her neck. They did to her what they NEVER did to a single male candidate, even the ones who came nowhere near where she did, and made her give up all the votes she earned after manipulating the system to carry him across the threshhold.

Just because the woman who merely “threw tea parties” was asked to join his administration doesn’t mean the rest of us with XX chromosomes will forget what happened.

Couple that with his throwing women dependant on low cost birth control to the wolves for exactly zero votes or stratergizing to allow Stupak to grandstand and insinuate that third parties had an equal interest in women’s reproductive choices and I can guarantee you snowballs have better chances in Hades then Barack Obama with someone like me.

He wanted another Reagan Republican.

Who was that female candidate?

Why don’t you google the Democratic primary if you can’t figure out who was running in 2008?

I wonder if they’re as reliable as the “creative class” that Donna(along with some other useful idiots with blogs) insisted was gonna make up the “New Dem” party?

To all the naysayers, I too, have not always agreed with DWS, but I think she is a good choice from the available pool of likelys. He is agressive, articulate, a fighter, a women’s rights advocate, a health care advocate and she doesn’t allow some screaming GOP mouthpiece to intimidate her. She will be a good messanger and the Democrats need a good messanger badly.

At least this whore is better looking than the last one…

Want a good spokes person with a record of success?

Bring back Dean.

Progressives need to dump the Democrats in 2012 for two reasons:
1) Economy is going to implode (commodities through the roof or market in the shitter depending on QE3+) so let Republicans take the blame.
2) Democratic Party will learn not to fuck with their base.
Then we elect a real progressive in 2016.

golconda2 said:

At least this whore is better looking than the last one…

Sadly this is the best comment on the situation I’ve seen -

We can all be sure of one thing – she is just another Corporate Dem and will sell out whoever she needs to whenever she needs to.

She is too pro-Netanyahu for my tastes.

Sunday show bookers everywhere despaired at the prospect of actually having to feature a woman on their programs

That sentence bears repeating…

.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is alive because
her breast cancer was caught extremely early.

Hopefully she can provide the educational function as to why
any plan not encouraging early intervention is clinically naive.

EverNewEcoN

A DLC toad picks a DLC tadpol. What can one really expect from Barrack, the stealth DLC’er pro-corporate coward?