Yeah, this is what really sucks. The party has been so consumed with national optics and getting the media to ring a death knell for the Republican party over and over for the last eight years. Meanwhile, the idiot Tea Partiers (in name or policy) have taken over my town and the ones around it, chanting their mantra of "austerity, austerity, austerity," like lowering taxes and spending will magically fix the roads and raise test scores.She has been absolutely disastrous for the Dem party with regards to local and state elections.
Good. Fuck her.
She has been absolutely disastrous for the Dem party with regards to local and state elections. She should resign immediately. Her ineffectiveness has put Dems in a massive hole.
Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is in a behind-the-scenes struggle with the White House, congressional Democrats and Washington insiders who have lost confidence in her as both a unifying leader and reliable party spokesperson at a time when they need her most.
The perception of critics is that Wasserman Schultz spends more energy tending to her own political ambitions than helping Democrats win. This includes using meetings with DNC donors to solicit contributions for her own PAC and campaign committee, traveling to uncompetitive districts to court House colleagues for her potential leadership bid and having DNC-paid staff focus on her personal political agenda.
Shes become a liability to the DNC, and even to her own prospects, critics say.
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After the election, Obamas top political operatives strategist David Plouffe, reelection campaign manager Jim Messina and then-DNC executive director Patrick Gaspard, now U.S. ambassador to South Africa debated the decision of retaining her as DNC chair so intensely that there was already a replacement in mind: R.T. Rybak, the former mayor of Minneapolis and a DNC vice chairman.
But there was nervousness about the optics of Obama dropping a woman from the party leadership. Plus, the sense internally was that they had originally picked her largely to help win the womens vote and avert problems with Jewish donors, and both had indeed happened, whatever the other problems.
The focus in Obamas political orbit at that moment was on transforming the campaign apparatus into Organizing for America, a 501(c)4 nonprofit group led by Messina that would exist solely to back the White House agenda. The DNC got stuck with $25 million in leftover debt from the Obama campaign, while OFA started fresh and has raised $36 million of its own since, although with limited political and policy victories to brag about.
The decision to stick with Wasserman Schultz is, according to a person familiar with Obamas thinking, part of his benign neglect of the DNC overall.
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Time to bring up this hefty Politico hate piece from September 2014 again on how much she sucks so people don't think it's just due to primary salt. Again, reminder this article came out more than a month before the Red Wedding known as the 2014 midterms.
Democrats turn on Debbie Wasserman Schultz
So much gold in that article. DWS needed to go yesterday. DNC is due for an overhaul.
Some of this is inevitable due to partisan sorting and national politics, but no one since Dean seems to have even cared about investing in red states.
Why is everyone here calling DWS a failure? Don't you all realize that Obama was the one that froze lobbyist money and caused the DNC to go in the red? You can't do anything without money!
Everybody knows Obama hates DWS and politico thinkpieces are garbage spinzones, fuck that noise.
Yup. They squandered what he built.I actually don't think the DNC has had a good chair since Dean--and DWS has been bad.
Not because of any stupid angry primary rivalry stuff, but because Dean was the last chair who seemed to care about the non-blue states and I believe the failure to capitalize on the seeds he planted for the 50 state strategy accelerated and worsened the shellacking Dems have taken at the state level, particularly in the south. 15 years ago the Democrats had a majority of southern governors and legislatures, some with supermajorities, even as their national/presidential vote had collapsed.
Some of this is inevitable due to partisan sorting and national politics, but no one since Dean seems to have even cared about investing in red states.
It's a pity that the scandal-du-hour daily show / twitter class has gotten so caught up in micro level details of who said what and what the latest plot twist is that they miss big patterns in politics.
Obama put fundraising restrictions in place that Clinton removed this year, they almost certainly contributed to the problems.DNC will never catch up with RNC in money without some fundamental compromises even then RNC will beat them. It's a losing game. Not to mention Koch Bros and other PACs funding local elections outside the purview of the RNC.
I've lost a lot of respect for the Democratic Party. I don't know who I'm voting for come November
Why does everyone assume I'm voting for Trump? We have other candidates outside the two party system and I didnt explicitly rule anyone out.
This is wack and embarrassing. Awesome of Bernie to take high road.
Make Bernie the chair!
DNC will never catch up with RNC in money without some fundamental compromises even then RNC will beat them. It's a losing game. Not to mention Koch Bros and other PACs funding local elections outside the purview of the RNC.
Isn't the RNC having massive money problems ATM anyway?
I will say Wikileaks made the DNC better today. Even if that wasn't their intention. Well I suppose that depends on who gets the nod moving forward. Plz focus on the down-ticket!