Listen to outraged Dems! - Spineless Wasserman Schultz Just Stepped In It!

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz just stepped in a load of crap on local 940 WINZ this morning. The phones lit up with outraged Dems calling up screaming about the outrage of her refusing to say she will vote no on Iraq funding, help with impeachment, etc. etc. I have never seen anything like the calls and emails that flooded the station.

Listen to the calls here. I am the first caller.

Warning to fans of Hillary Clinton that like to troll rate. I slam Hillary in my call, because Wasserman Schultz has endorsed her and I think that is likely why she has become less of a Democrat and Progressive on these issues and less willing to have the backbone to do what the American people want. Don't listen if you don't want to hear it.

Links to original interview and emails are here.

•  What is going on?

  I do not get what is going on with these Dems. It is truly insane for them to be incurring this wrath.

  by bradnickel on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 09:57:57 AM PDT

  •  It seems that the Dems we have now...

    were much better as the minority party.  They so much enjoyed being able to complain and say there was nothing they can do.  Now that they are the majority party, they collapse and capitulate to the Rethugs.

    Politics is like driving:  If you want to go backwards, put it in R.  If you want to go forward, put it in D.  - ANON.

    by miller415 on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:03:50 AM PDT

    •  I dunno...

      ...I think the Republicans kick our asses so far as being the minority party is concerned!

      Oh, waah waah waah, three senators from bumblefuck don't like our health care plan, I suppose we'll table it.

      Yeah.

      Like that ever would have happened under the Repubofascists.

      12 years in the minority should have taught us how to be in charge.  Maybe the reddies, fascists though they be, are just better at politics than we are.  

      by ultrageek on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:20:06 AM PDT

      •  Nicely said nt

        by bradnickel on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:21:08 AM PDT

      •  Or better at intimidation -

        - through military grade anthrax and illegal wiretapping.

        by Jack the R on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:59:07 AM PDT

        •  Yeah, makes you wonder..... nt

          by bradnickel on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 11:10:52 AM PDT

    •  Spot on! nt

      by bradnickel on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:20:55 AM PDT

•  Somebody needs to bring this to the attention...

  ... of Randi Rhodes.

  Randi and Wasserman-Schultz go way back, and Randi is all over impeachment and ending Iraq war funding these days.

  Maybe Rhodes can talk some sense into her.

  by tbetz on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:05:52 AM PDT

  •  If anyone knows the best way to get her attention

    I am all for it.

    by bradnickel on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:21:33 AM PDT

    •  866-303-2270, 3PM to 6PM EST

      Otherwise, you could send an e-mail (as I did) to [e-mail] -- if her producer (who really reads that mailbox) sees enough of them, she'll bring them to Randi's attantion.

      by tbetz on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:56:56 AM PDT

      •  I just sent mine. Thanks! nt

        by bradnickel on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 11:11:38 AM PDT

•  What I tell you

  Hillary Clinton fits right in with all the Dems in Congress that have not stepped up to the mandate of the 06 vote.

  This is a perfect preview of the kind of boldness and leadership HRC will show as president.

  by bam bam on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:13:50 AM PDT

  •  Hellllooo There, RIGHT ON THE $!

    by Sabre11 on Mon Nov 12, 2007 at 05:23:14 AM PDT

•  Hilary Clinton

  Is behind all of this!!

  by bink on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:17:19 AM PDT

  •  And her husband's dingle!

    by ultrageek on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:20:53 AM PDT

    •  That's "dongle"

      by StrayCat on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 11:37:31 AM PDT

      •  No, I'm sure it's "dingle"

        Like in the song.  You know,

        "I want to play with my dingle-ing"

        (The website's lyric transcription is obviously a typo.)

        by Laughing Vergil on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 03:22:28 PM PDT

  •  I think she holds back, because she is

    co-chair of the campaign and does not want Clinton to be asked about it because of her. I do think she will wait for Clinton to decide the polling data is solid, her corporate sponsors approve, and she can now have that position.

    by bradnickel on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:25:00 AM PDT

•  Corporate Spunk prevents Shultz from hearing

  VOTE DEM - ANY NEW DEMS.

  Throw these corporate Dem military whores into the umeployment line.

  Shultz, Feinstein, Hillary, Rockefeller can all go work for AIPAC. They will be OK.

  by Heterodoxie on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:25:37 AM PDT

•  Good for her that there is a feedback loop

  I think the lady from Florida will come around when faced with this sort of attention.

  by Dave from Oregon on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 10:55:40 AM PDT

•  NOT Spineless. Different word.

  Paul Krugman wrote:

  "One of the saddest stories I tell in my book is that of Al Smith, the great reformist governor of New York, who gradually turned into a narrow-minded economic conservative and bitter critic of F.D.R. H. L. Mencken explained it thusly: "His association with the rich has apparently wobbled him and changed him. He has become a golf player."

  So, how wobbled are today’s Democrats? I guess we’ll find out. "

  http://www.nytimes.com/...

  I adore Wasserman Schultz except when she gave a speech that leaned all AIPAC in ways I didn't recognize as fitting to Progressives. There are far too many Republican and entrenched out-of-date minset among Jews.

  We have to push back against 60 years of lobbying and much campaign and PR $.

  Better for the Jews and for the Nation than AIPAC:
  http://www.njdc.org/...

  by LNK on Thu Nov 08, 2007 at 11:45:09 AM PDT

•  Wass-Schultz Bought + Paid for By AIPAC!

  Debbie is pathetic going around the state endorsing go along get along "dems" and REPUBLICANS!  When is some one going to FILE AGAINST HER AND DUMP THIS SELLOUT TO AMERICA?

  by Sabre11 on Mon Nov 12, 2007 at 05:22:11 AM PDT