Not to pile on, but this is the same Hillary Clinton-supporting Debbie Wasserman Schultz who wants Florida's primary and delegates "result" for Sen. Clinton to count, despite its violation of party rules accepted by all candidates in advance, including Sen. Clinton.

yeah, this debbie should step down. she helped break the dem rules and then wanted to seat delegates based on Jan result to help her "Republican" friend Hillary. Now she is refusing to help other dems challenging GOPs. How predictable...

No wonder FL is a red state. Some Dems in that state are actually closet-Republican Dems. just like this debbie.

Sounds like she's another Bush fall guy. She should step down and Florida should be castrated. Florida isn't the kind of place that would vote for New York's mayor; Florida is the kind of place that would train New York's hijackers. It's time to give them what they want: it's time to start drilling on Florida beaches.

this is excessive deference to her colleagues

uh, wouldn't democrats elected to these seats remain a part of florida's delegation. or perhaps i've missed the cessation of those districts from florida to form the 51st state.

she's gotta go as co-chair.

Please do some reporting, there are truths in this story you are ignoring.

Joe and Jane Twelvepack neither know nor care about the niceties of relations within a delegation. It's time for her to endorse the challengers.

Wasserman Schultz's excuse would be more valid if she hadn't explicitly supported a Democratic candidate over a Florida Republican incumbent during a congressional contest in the 2006 election (from Kos). Maybe the NSA phone taps picked up something on her in the last two years to make her change her point of view.

Sam Ellison writes:
"Please do some reporting, there are truths in this story you are ignoring."

Mr Ellison, don't leave us in suspense--tell us what the ignored truths in this story are. I'm certainly interested.

Thank you, I was wondering much along the same lines as to DWS's obsequious deference to the embattled GOP incumbents

"uh, wouldn't democrats elected to these seats remain a part of florida's delegation. or perhaps i've missed the cessation of those districts from florida to form the 51st state.

she's gotta go as co-chair.

Posted by: linda | March 19, 2008 07:01 PM"

Schultz is saying her friendships outweigh her duty to her country, and since the incumbents are making this a far worse society by the day, for no other reason than to obstruct the Democrats, then Schultz clear responsibility is to stand with her constituents, not her GOP friends and their anti-US agenda.

The people who have driven our country into the ground since Bush Jr first slithered into office-via unelected, activist judges-don't deserve the least bit of sympathetic political cover.

So sad. I used to like her.

She has no business chairing the DCCC if that's her position, for all the reasons noted above.

Do the ReThuglicans act the same way? I doubt it.

She should step down immediately. As for the DCCC guy, if it's so easy to dismiss our complaints, perhaps if we stop writing checks to help election efforts, then he'll listen. With that comment, no more from me. He's an as@.

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As the blogger who interviewed Rep. Wasserman Schultz (and to whom she made the "frustrated" comment -- "frustrated" was my word, not hers), I'm disappointed that she would say our conversation turned into a "game of telephone." I accurately reported what she said to me, and I certainly respect her for her progressive voting record and her candor in speaking to me.

However, I'm disappointed that she is unable to set aside her personal feelings for the Three Hyphenated Stooges in Miami in order to do the job she sought with the DCCC.

As the blogger who interviewed Rep. Wasserman Schultz (and to whom she made the "frustrated" comment -- "frustrated" was my word, not hers), I'm disappointed that she would say our conversation turned into a "game of telephone." I accurately reported what she said to me, and I certainly respect her for her progressive voting record and her candor in speaking to me.

However, I'm disappointed that she is unable to set aside her personal feelings for the Three Hyphenated Stooges in Miami in order to do the job she sought with the DCCC.

Ms. Wasserman-Schultz is afraid of the Cuban backlash. She is in a vulnerable position there and neither she nor Mr. Meeks can afford to rile up a group that has so much money and energy and the willingness to use it. She cannot afford to alienate the Cubans even though they are Republicans.

The comment about DWS being afraid of backlash is correct. Younger Cubans are much less conservative than their parents and grandparents, but DWS (or any other Democrat) has no chance whatsoever of getting their vote by disrespecting other Cubans, especially the three Cubans in question, who are revered in their community for their inroads into American politics. DWS is correctly reading the nuances of Florida politics, unlike the posters on Daily Kos.

Ms. Wasserman-Schultz is disliked because she lacks the courage to help bring about the change many people in this country crave. She is part of the problem, not the solution.

What I read in these comments is all too typical of bloggers on the Left and Right. Demonize and dehumanize the target of your wrath, damn all civility and decency, and declare total war.

You politicans are all alike. Once you get into office you'll stab your supporters in the back

You politicans are all alike. Once you get into office you'll stab your supporters in the back

Gee, do you think you used the word "liberal" enough, Mary Ann? Could you tell me the specific formula that equates wanting your party representatives to support people running from the party they represent instead of the opposition party with "liberal"? I'll wait...

With Dems like her, who needs Republicans?

As one who worked to support Democrat candidates like Congressman Ron Kline defeated Republican Clay Shaw in 2006 ,who had served nearly 20 years in Congress and who also supported other Democrats to help change the Congressional leadership to Democrats, I feel that DWS stand is indefensible. As a regular reader of the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel Newspaper I look each week at the section that shows each South Florida Congressman's vote on bills and amendments and DWS and Rep. Kendrick Meeks votes are always the opposite of the votes of Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, and Mario Diaz-Balart's on important issues which mostly supported along party lines. They both need to support the Democrat issues and not the Republicans.

Very interesting...Don't people support Obama because he is the great trancender of divides...don't you believe him to be the post partisan candidate? Yet when Wasserman-Shultz walks the talk she comes under heavy criticism. Koz has become the politiboro of all things Obama and in doing so he has lost all credibility for me and other Hillary supporters.

What is the matter with you people??? I read these posts all over the internet and say to myself I don't want anything to do with this single minded people. Meaner every day - the average american is sick of this crap!

Unfortunately, the liberal blogoshpere consists largely of individuals who seem not spend much time dwelling in reality. The people who seem so quick to criticize DWS are also some of the same folks who "stood on principle" and voted for Nader in 2000 and again in 2004, which helped bring the real Dubya to power, and keep him there.

When will the extremists on the Left and Right realize that biting your nose off to spite your face is not an effective means of achieving political objectives. Ahhh, ignorance is truly bliss.

Rep. Wasserman Schultz spoke articulately and to the point on a news show recently about how the G.O.P. sabotaged the Florida Dem primary and the problems associated with any revote. She was so impressive, I knew it was just a matter of time before the Obama surrogates put her in the crosshairs. Nita Lowey is another Clinton supporter appearing on news shows that the Obama bloggers have been roasting on an open fire, in this case accusing her of incompetence. The candidate himself equated both Geraldine Ferraro and his own white grandmother with Rev. Wright in his speech this week. It's clear an Obama Admin. would scapegoat women in exactly the same manner that the Bush Admin. has done over the last seven years. And the similarities between the two men don't end there, either. Karl Rove and the neoconservatives have backed Obama ever since they rigged his U.S. senate election in 2004. For more on this, see an article I've posted at thecityedition.com

Ahhhh.....Florida, our own THIRD-WORLD country, including the politics...

Ahhhh.....Florida, our own THIRD-WORLD country, including the politics...

She's gotta go as DCCC chair. She did not, like Congressperson Wexler have the courage to support impeachment of Cheney and Bush. Now she refuses to challenge the uncompromising right-wing Diaz-Balarts and Ileana Ross-Lehtinen. Lincoln Diaz-Balart is the elected representative of my area, and he does not represent me, a progressive Democrat! And, I have also found out that as representative she failed to launch an investigation into a serious allegation, instead got the whislteblowers into problems.

As a former resident of Ms. Ros-Lehtinen's district, and a lifelong Democrat who did not approve of her positions, I understand the demographics of the district and why her opponents have no chance. The same is true of the Diaz-Balarts as well. In the Democratic year of 2006, they received ~58-62% of the vote. They will certainly win the districts again this year, no matter the Presidential candidates. Expecting Ms. Wasserman-Schulz's endorsement to have any effect whatsoever in those districts combines naivete and ignorance. This is unlike Clay Shaw's old district, which is quite Democratic, and where it could and did work. Given that Ms. Wasserman-Schultz is a progressive Democrat by any sane standard, and the district demographics are well-known, the only point of these diatribes against her are to smear someone who supports Senator Clinton.

Senator Obama will win the nomination (my former candidate, Governor Richardson, obviously believes that to be the case as well). So what end is served in alienating those whose support he will need in the general election?

This is starting to smell like 1968 (or pick any of your favorite years) all over again. Keep this up and you will help elect Sen. McCain (D-Keating).

Show Me: Spoken like a true Clinton supporter your snarkiness is showing. Her job is to elect democrats. If she had a problem with that she should not have taken the job. Obama supporters are not post partisan. We think you can have a civil discourse and not accuse the other person of wanting to destroy the country or being unamerican. Also, no one cares that she supports Clinton. It is never mentioned on Daily Kos. The problem is that she is not doing her job.

I am a 68 year old liberal democrat from Texas, and the so called progressive bloggers are not helping the democratic party. They have decided that if you disagree with them in any way, including not supporting their candidate, Saint Obama, you are the enemy. Debbie Wasserman Shultz is a damn good democrat who happens to support Clinton, so they must demonize her. I would vote for a yellow dog if it was a domcrat, but I'm not sure I'm ready to be an Obot.

"Three Hyphenated Stooges" in concert with "Debbie Dubya" make me laugh. Those three Cubans are the most recalcitrant pro-Bush reps. Lincoln uses his postal perks to send glossy cards of propaganda, about all the pork for Florida. In a tiny font almost invisible reads a disclaimer that the mailing is paid by taxpayers. I don't know if that is legal. I wonder if the "three stooges" will pay the same way when Debbie Dubya be challenged by a republican.

"Three Hyphenated Stooges" in concert with "Debbie Dubya" make me laugh. Those three Cubans are the most recalcitrant pro-Bush reps. Lincoln uses his postal perks to send glossy cards of propaganda, about all the pork for Florida. In a tiny font almost invisible reads a disclaimer that the mailing is paid by taxpayers. I don't know if that is legal. I wonder if the "three stooges" will pay the same way when Debbie Dubya be challenged by a republican.

Typical democrat diatribe. Just bcause wassy don't want to get the cuban american community stirred up, you cats jump on her like a duck on a june bug. I have seen he act out the dem. propoganda on the floor of the house, and I guess that is why she got the job she has.All you libs tend to the business in your area, and let debbbie alone.

What a shame! Until she threw in with Hillary I had thought she was a principled progressive. Too bad!

It is a most unusual stand she is taking AND risking her own election. The question for her AND her supporters is: WOULD THOSE THREE RIGHT WING EXTREMESTS DO THE SAME FOR HER???? I doubt it very much. If any South Fla. resident (DEM) is reading this I suggest you e-mail her with this question OR call her her and tell her you will NOT VOTE FOR HER IN HER NEXT RUN!!!! That SHOULD GET HER ATTENTION!!!

-1- Since when are Native born Americans or naturalized citizens from Cubans or of Cuban ancestry instead of "Americans" or "Cuban Americans"? Are the self-hating Eastern European descended left wing Jews or Black nationalist Afro-Centrists called "Africans"? The Left always wants things two ways, three ways, four ways. When someone like Bernie Sanders, a Leftist "independent" in the Democratic Caucus votes against the Democrats he's "independent" when a Conservative "independent" in the Democratic Caucus member Joseph Liebermann votes against the Democrats he's a traitor or worst! No, I would NOT have gone into Iraq, but we are there and NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO GET OUT WITHOUT CAUSING MASSIVE BLOODSHED! Yes, the Republicans have de-regulated to the point we are in a mortgage-driven financial crisis, but the Democrats still want people such as poor Blacks to own homes they can NEVER afford for ideological if not political reasons that go against financial sense! The left wants things he has no way to fund and take foreign or military action that they can't justify, so they get into these crazy blog sites and RANT AND RAGE over NOTHING or LESS THAN NOTHING! For Heavens sakes, the issues are the getting out of Iraq and solving the home mortgage and speculation problems, not who endorsed who. All this shows is that the Left Wing is as DUMB in the States as in Europe or elsewhere.

-1- Since when are Native born Americans or naturalized citizens from Cubans or of Cuban ancestry instead of "Americans" or "Cuban Americans"? Are the self-hating Eastern European descended left wing Jews or Black nationalist Afro-Centrists called "Africans"? The Left always wants things two ways, three ways, four ways. When someone like Bernie Sanders, a Leftist "independent" in the Democratic Caucus votes against the Democrats he's "independent" when a Conservative "independent" in the Democratic Caucus member Joseph Liebermann votes against the Democrats he's a traitor or worst! No, I would NOT have gone into Iraq, but we are there and NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO GET OUT WITHOUT CAUSING MASSIVE BLOODSHED! Yes, the Republicans have de-regulated to the point we are in a mortgage-driven financial crisis, but the Democrats still want people such as poor Blacks to own homes they can NEVER afford for ideological if not political reasons that go against financial sense! The left wants things he has no way to fund and take foreign or military action that they can't justify, so they get into these crazy blog sites and RANT AND RAGE over NOTHING or LESS THAN NOTHING! For Heavens sakes, the issues are the getting out of Iraq and solving the home mortgage and speculation problems, not who endorsed who. All this shows is that the Left Wing is as DUMB in the States as in Europe or elsewhere.

Members of Congress rarely endorse opponents of their colleagues in the Congress -- regardless of their political party.

The Congresswoman has been an articulate spokesperson for the Democratic party and she has also been an effective member of Congress.

She, however, is now backing the wrong candidate in the Presidential contest. The women of this country are not well served when a woman supports another woman simply because she is a woman. Hillary Clinton is the wrong choice for the 2008 election because she is the REPUBLICAN choice. A vote for Hillary is the easiest path toward a third Bush term because the GOP hate machine is geared up to now defeat Hillary Clinton. Her tenure as a United States Senator has only given the GOP more ammunition. The American people want this election to be about the issues and not another rehash of all the past Clinton scandals.