Tag: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz stupidly forgets comparing Voter ID to Jim Crow.

Let me rephrase that: she abjectly, amazingly, incredibly stupidly forgets comparing Voter ID to Jim Crow laws, to the point of huffily walking off when reminded about that particular bit of hyper-partisan stupidity.  Watch.

Watch.

For those without video, that shows a clip of… Debbie Wasserman Schultz claiming that she ever made the above comparison, followed by a clip of… Debbie Wasserman Schultz explicitly making the above comparison, followed by a clip of… the meat of the first clip again, largely because mrctv apparently could not believe that the chair of the Democratic National Committee was this incapable of even remembering what specific fumble-fingered attempts to [incite] racial hatred were shambling about under her name. So they themselves had to go back and make sure that yes, she said this; and they must have decided that since they had to do a double-take, then so would their viewers, so they might as well make it easy for them. Continue reading DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz stupidly forgets comparing Voter ID to Jim Crow.

#rsrh Debbie Downer at the post-debate spin room.

The trouble starts on the first sentence:

When I caught up with Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., in the spin room of last night’s Republican debate, she was arguing that President Obama had turned the nation around.

Continue reading #rsrh Debbie Downer at the post-debate spin room.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s problem with the reality of unemployment.

Watching this Debbie Wasserman Schultz video is surprisingly difficult: you keep expecting her to crack up at the nonsense that she’s spouting off. But… no.

Fox News’ Gretchen Carlson: “Unemployment has gone up precipitously since he took office.”

DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “That is simply not true. In fact, unemployment has now dropped below 9%. It’s continuing to drop. He’s been focused on – ”

Carlson:  “Yes, but it’s higher than when they promised that the stimulus would lower it to 8%.”

Wasserman Schultz:  “That narrative doesn’t work for you anymore.”

Carlson: “It’s not my narrative. I’m just talking about facts of where the unemployment numbers are.”

Wasserman Schultz: “You just said that the unemployment rate is going up since he took office, and it hasn’t.”

Carlson: “Is unemployment higher now than when President Obama took office?”

Wasserman Schultz: “What’s happened since President Obama took office –  “

Carlson: “Is unemployment higher than when he took office?”

Wasserman Schultz: “Unemployment is nearing right around where it was when President Obama took office and it’s dropping. You just said that it’s been increasing and that’s not true.” (Fox News’ “Fox and Friends,” 12/12/11)

Continue reading Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s problem with the reality of unemployment.

#rsrh Hey, everyone! It’s DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

Having a moment of semi-honesty.  Apparently, we don’t elect ‘leaders’ – mind the sudden chill, there – to create jobs:

(H/T: Hot Air) I say ‘semi-honesty’ because it’s somewhat more accurate to say that empirical evidence over the last three years suggests that nobody should realistically expect that electing Democrats will create jobs.  But that is a somewhat complex concept, with several hard words in it – and Wasserman Schultz was picked for DNC chair more for her ability to snarl on cue than for her level of cognitive development.  I mean, I’m sure that she has some – but nobody’s exactly calling Debbie in to double-check the math on that neutrino thing, if you know what I mean…

#rsrh Debbie Wasserman-Schultz goes wobbly. Again.

On a day where Steny Hoyer tells the world that the House GOP is playing Russian Roulette (with a loaded gun) with the economy and the President – look, it was his tortured and brutalized metaphor, not mine – and Harry Reid is tweeting away that Tea Partiers aren’t real Americans, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz goes Full Metal Hand-Stapled-To-Forehead and starts babbling about dictatorships because House Republicans dared to show this motivational clip* at a debt ceiling meeting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub792aeMjlM&feature=player_embedded

And they wonder why every Democratic candidate for the last forty-five years has felt obligated to demonstrate at some point that he or she is not in fact a wimp.

Moe Lane

*Clip via Jim Geraghty, who also notes that Chuck Schumer seems determined to demonstrate with this that he’s a much better at being weak-willed and silly than Wasserman-Schultz could ever hope to be.  So Schumer gets a Shaddap, Sign:

Shaddap, Sign!

Debbie Downer’s bad first month as DNC Chair.

(Via Hot Air) The Politico is just now starting to realize just how big a boon DNC chair Debbie Downer (aka Debbie Wasserman Schultz) is… for the Republican Party:

She’s accused Republicans of wanting to reinstate segregation and of waging a “war on women.” She has asserted, somewhat nonsensically, that the GOP wants to make illegal immigration — by definition against the law — “a crime.” She’s also been mocked for driving a foreign car after pounding Republicans for not supporting the American auto industry.

[snip]

No one seems ready to declare her the Democratic version of Michael Steele, the gaffe-prone former Republican National Committee chairman whose rhetorical and administrative missteps led numerous party leaders to publicly insist he had to go.

Continue reading Debbie Downer’s bad first month as DNC Chair.

#Weinergate, Part 2? New Anthony Weiner pictures, emails allegedly surfacing.

Never mind on that Part 2 of the Weinergate endgame that I promised quite yet: via Ace comes this report from Big Journalism on Rep. Anthony Weiner that “suggests that the Brooklyn- and Queens-based representative and the young woman in question were involved in an online, consensual relationship involving the mutual exchange of intimate photographs.” They’ll be dribbling out their evidence for this suggestion over the day, and any hope by the Left that this will not be covered by the media will probably be neatly scuppered by this promise: “we will not be releasing all of the material because some of it is of an extreme, graphic nature.”

Yup. Statements like that are catnip for journalists – and, admittedly, for bloggers. Continue reading #Weinergate, Part 2? New Anthony Weiner pictures, emails allegedly surfacing.

Eric Cantor on deficit: progress, and no tax hikes.

Allow me to summarize for my readers this Hill article (“Cantor to Democrats: See, cutting spending’s not that hard”) on some hopeful (repeat: hopeful) signs of deficit reduction on the horizon:

Eric Cantor: …See, cutting spending’s not that hard*. And there’s not going to be any tax hikes.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: …OK, now that you’ve getting spending cuts, we want our Holy Grail, too. Raise taxes!

To which let me add:

Moe Lane: Not a chance on this world, or any other.

Continue reading Eric Cantor on deficit: progress, and no tax hikes.

Good News / Bad News for Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

The bad news: she didn’t realize that she was calling members of her own party ‘anti-woman’ before she started screaming The Weekly Standard‘s John McCormack about how people who voted to defund Planned Parenthood are anti-woman!

TWS: But there were eleven [correction: ten] Democrats who voted against funding for Planned Parenthood, so are those eleven Democrats anti-woman?

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: No, they’re not, because if you, when I declare someone, when I make a broad statement like that, I look at the balance of somebody’s–where their priorities are, the balance of their record. And so one individual isolated vote here and there does not make you anti-woman.

TWS: So what are the broader votes that make those Democrats who voted on those same issues–on Planned Parenthood on H.R. 3–what makes them not anti-woman?

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: I don’t think there are any Democrats.

TWS: Eleven.

Note that Debbie Wasserman Schultz happens to be the Deputy Minority Whip; I was unaware that the position was a sinecure.  Or that it causes traumatic memory loss among those who have been burdened by the job.  Or that the Democrats simply pick lying suckweasels for the position… actually, no: I was already aware of that one. Continue reading Good News / Bad News for Debbie Wasserman Schultz!