What Debbie Dubya Can Do To Get Me Off Her Back

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants the bloggers off her back. Okay, first a quick review.

My main problem with Debbie Dubya is that she’s a national co-chair of the Clinton campaign, and thereby complicit in the divisive, racist fear-mongering that has characterized Sen. Clinton’s candidacy. It was in that capacity that I originally came up with the derisive moniker in a post at FlaPolitics.com.

It was just coincidence that the Herald story about the DCCC mess mess broke the same day and Progressive Florida posted over at FlaPolitics.com on that issue right after mine. He picked up the Debbie Dubya name and carried it to Swing State Project (where he’s known as Progressive America, as he is here at DKos).

DavidNYC, who was also incensed over DD’s Red to Blue Project recusal, saw the Debbie Dubya name on Swing State Project, laughingly adopted it, and brought it to Daily Kos.  He has since dropped it in an attempt to be respectful and actually influence her and the DCCC.

I posted another piece about Debbie Dubya pointing out that some of her actions were characteristic of the type of politician that Markos and Jerome had criticized strongly in Crashing the Gate.

So, what would it take for me to get off her case? I’ll make it easy and give two possibilities that have nothing to do with the Clinton campaign or the DCCC.

First, speak out publicly against the Marriage Amendment here in Florida . Take advantage of the fact that you are in a safe district and make the same case that Sen. McCain made on the floor of the Senate speaking against a federal marriage constitutional amendment: it’s divisive and un-American.

Hey, your close friend Ileana Ros-Lehtinen has often spoken up for gay rights, and she’s a stinking Republican! Why can’t you do the same and help convince the older voters in your district and throughout South Florida that voting for the marriage amendment is the wrong thing to do?

Second, endorse Common Cause’s ballot initiative to stop gerrymandering in Florida. Democrats are not going to take over the State House anytime soon. If the party wants to hold on to both the congressional and legislative seats it has won or will win prior to the redistricting that the Republican legislature will impose after the 2010 census, this is critical to get passed.

You might want to confer with your fellow MOC Ron Klein about this. He could end up like Karen Thurman did in 2002. Not to mention Tim Mahoney, who might not even survive re-election, since he’s targeted by the NRCC. If he does get re-elected you know his already highly gerrymandered district will get even worse.

This is a BIG issue for the Democratic Party to address. All Democratic candidates need to bring up gerrymandering and endorse this campaign. We all need to visit the FairDistrictsFlorida.org website and download and copy the petitions and get people to sign them at campaign and party events.

Well, what do you say congresswoman? If you do either of these I will never type the name Debbie Dubya again.

Of course, if you cannot bring yourself to do either, then you probably deserve the name.

•  Roll over? :-)

  by irate on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 03:31:18 PM PDT

•  but your not being nice

  she is a democrat in power so we must all bow down. she knows whats best for he..i mean us. why should she actually fight for some of the things listed? she supports hillary isnt that enough for you?

  by Liberal Youth on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 03:44:52 PM PDT

•  Here's what needs

  to change:

  Brian Wolff, executive director of the DCCC, says the bloggers are making "much ado about nothing," noting that it's "customary" for members to remain neutral in races involving GOP members of their respective congressional delegations.

  It's "customs" like that that drove Rahm Emmanuel nuts. That's what needs to change.

  So, ya think her Goper colleagues would be so kind to her if the shoe were on the other foot?

  Florida Kossacks Rock

  Blog Florida Blue

  by gatordem on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 03:57:58 PM PDT

•  All my life Florida has seemed 20 years

  behind the rest of the country. Thanks to the shift to Internet years we've shortened our lag by a decade or so, but we're still eons behind.

  Hillary Clinton's nihilistic divisiveness, and Debbie W's equally vapid brand of selective party relativism are relics of a bygone era that only dinosaurs of American politics are trying to keep alive.

  The sooner they both get it, the better.

   

  by doorguy on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 04:11:57 PM PDT

•  I have been very mean to Debbie W Schultz.

  You can look up my posts in the DWS threads by DaveNYC.  

  I will say that she is a Democrat who has supported and urged the passage of much needed legislation.

   That said, I learned from her statements on Air America and on this very blog that impeachment was not in any way shape or form desireable or practical. The process of discovery would be a distraction. Bush should sail on to the end of his term untrammeled and serene.

  A distraction from electing her favorite, HRC as President.

  Now first of all,  DWS represents people of her district in the Congress.  It is their sons and daughters being sacrificed in an unjust war  started by a liar and a thief who stole an election in Florida, and stole our futures with a wildly inappropriate misuse of our resources and treasure.

  "Investigate, discover impeach...indict"?  No.
  Figure out how the federal non-partisan positions and appointments and agencies are being seriously undermined and politicized?  No.

  Get the funding for this wretched war (or borrowing authority) rescinded or stopped?  No.

  Have a genuine open forward looking policy for the MidEast and Cuba  and South America? No.

  Stand up for fairness and open election reform,and support a positive inclusive process nationally and honor it locally? No.

   OK Deb, you have a better idea on these issues. We disagree.  I understand that is possible and likely,no two citizens will have identity of thought and action and solutions.

   Why won't you support Democrats like Christine Jennings and the 3 running against the Balart brothers and Ileana Ros Lehtien?  At least by not telling people by your mid campaign (!)praising of the Repubs that you would rather the democrats lost?

  It even seems like a person voting for a democrat wouldn't be sure what he or she would get because they might end up acting in office just like you.

    I don't want to use the  phrase "Debbie Does Florida". I don't want it to be true, in fact I want it refuted. The ball's in your court.

  by Pete Rock on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 04:50:31 PM PDT