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IDemo

(16,926 posts)
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 09:38 PM Apr 2016

Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Wall Street and Big Oil donors can still be ‘big tent’ Democrats

Source: Raw Story

Democratic National Committee chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) refused to disavow corporate campaign donors during a brief interview posted by The Young Turks on Friday.

The footage shows correspondent Jordan Charlton approaching Wasserman-Schultz on Thursday night and relaying to her concerns from young supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign, saying that they “feel like a lot of the establishment Democrats are taking money from the same people that they say they’re going after: Wall Street, Big Oil.”

“Both political parties through time immemorial have had a range of views across a spectrum, but we’re a big tent party,” she responded. “We have the ability to absorb and be unified with people on the far left and center right and still have the same people calling themselves Democrats.”

She also rebuffed the idea that Democrats are in danger of falling prey to corporate influence, saying that there’s more cause for concern that it may be happening to Republicans.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/04/debbie-wasserman-schultz-wall-street-and-big-oil-donors-can-still-be-big-tent-democrats/

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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: Wall Street and Big Oil donors can still be ‘big tent’ Democrats (Original Post) IDemo Apr 2016 OP
But DWS has a "D" at the end of her name. Doesn't that excuse her from any misdeeds? nt revbones Apr 2016 #1
She Sounds Like A Republican billhicks76 Apr 2016 #33
I may be wrong (and I often am) but... ReRe Apr 2016 #60
Not just appointed by Obama, bvar22 Apr 2016 #68
Or Someone Obama Is Beholden To Wants Here There billhicks76 Apr 2016 #69
Probably closer to the truth. bvar22 Apr 2016 #73
Only Idiot Fools Cry, "Tin Foil Conspiracy" billhicks76 Apr 2016 #75
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow Apr 2016 #2
the bernie crowd can stop driving gasoline cars and using electricy in protest lol nt msongs Apr 2016 #3
I think you're well-positioned to answer an urgent question. Scootaloo Apr 2016 #57
Exactly! BillZBubb Apr 2016 #76
And dingos can still be babysitters. forest444 Apr 2016 #4
In DLC/3rd Way/New Democrat world, yes. KeepItReal Apr 2016 #52
would love to say something about this SoLeftIAmRight Apr 2016 #5
Corporate full press now and wagon circling after that ghastly debate performance. Bill, Biden, appalachiablue Apr 2016 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author silvershadow Apr 2016 #13
For real, probly been working it and staffed with their sharpest tools for months. appalachiablue Apr 2016 #15
What makes you think they haven't? Ford_Prefect Apr 2016 #37
What makes you think I don't think they have? nt silvershadow Apr 2016 #42
I was paraphrasing the penguin. That you raised the question makes your position on it clear. Ford_Prefect Apr 2016 #46
Well there is one corporate Democratic stooge. dogman Apr 2016 #7
Fuck no they can't. And her ass is going to get the fuck out of office too onecaliberal Apr 2016 #8
Better question: Why are you DUCKING a debate with Tim Canova? FlatBaroque Apr 2016 #9
Because she's a coward who comes across as a mental defective whenever she speaks? n/t Chan790 Apr 2016 #14
This video is case in point of that. Joe Shlabotnik Apr 2016 #16
I live in Seattle, but sent Tim's campaign $50. I want DWS gone. WestSeattle2 Apr 2016 #36
I donated to Canova too. mudstump Apr 2016 #41
And Denny Haster can watch your kids Kelvin Mace Apr 2016 #10
Is Debbie Downer worried about losing her spot at the corporate feed trough? HooptieWagon Apr 2016 #11
DWS: stuff it. ananda Apr 2016 #12
Yes. She is tone -deaf. Sweep her out. 840high Apr 2016 #18
I'm not a doctor, woofless Apr 2016 #17
Did you stay at a Holliday Inn Express last night? GummyBearz Apr 2016 #56
Sorry, Debbie, it's all over. elleng Apr 2016 #19
FIRE DWS! Donate to Democratic Underground for Tim Canova FL-23 here Omaha Steve Apr 2016 #20
Done again.................................... turbinetree Apr 2016 #64
No, DWS, if you are a center right TM99 Apr 2016 #21
DWS and HRC both right-leaning centrists. oldandhappy Apr 2016 #24
There is no center. TM99 Apr 2016 #25
Middle-finger reflex activated. nt SusanCalvin Apr 2016 #22
What a load. CharlotteVale Apr 2016 #23
Gosh! She is awful. earthside Apr 2016 #26
Hillary is much better at saying absolutely nothing than this pangaia Apr 2016 #32
Blah blah blah nt DebbieCDC Apr 2016 #27
There is something seriously wrong with that woman. pangaia Apr 2016 #28
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is full of steer manure Jack Rabbit Apr 2016 #29
Good post! JDPriestly Apr 2016 #40
... Bubzer Apr 2016 #30
In Today's Democratic Party noretreatnosurrender Apr 2016 #31
Agree with Debbie - someone's gotta buy the tent packman Apr 2016 #34
“We have the ability to absorb and be unified with people on the far left and center right DonCoquixote Apr 2016 #35
I agree with her quote Ruby the Liberal Apr 2016 #62
Face it, Deb... MrMickeysMom Apr 2016 #38
Shut your noise hole, DWS. DisgustipatedinCA Apr 2016 #39
DWS: The Republicans are worse than us. KPN Apr 2016 #43
Obviously not. She supports a lot of them. Fuddnik Apr 2016 #44
+1! KPN Apr 2016 #50
+1 Zira Apr 2016 #48
I wonder which one gave her the bigger donation? Lunabell Apr 2016 #45
I want to see her tax returns. And check her for off shore accounts. Zira Apr 2016 #47
I think she suffering from RCI joedogs Apr 2016 #49
big tent? if she's talking circus I want no part of it. elmac Apr 2016 #51
where does the white noise machine go? Fairgo Apr 2016 #53
Can someone flush that turd? It's stinking up the "big tent". BeanMusical Apr 2016 #54
Wonder What She's Smoking... LovingA2andMI Apr 2016 #55
We're corporate whores, just like the Republicans! Hooray for the Blue Team! Scuba Apr 2016 #58
She can think and say what she wants, has everyone donated to Tim Canova this month yet? pdsimdars Apr 2016 #59
And payday lenders!!! w00t!!! Usury for everybody!! Ruby the Liberal Apr 2016 #61
Fuck off to the Republican Party where you belong, Debbie. Odin2005 Apr 2016 #63
Dear Ms. Wasserman-Schultz........................... turbinetree Apr 2016 #65
We all know who she stands with LiberalLovinLug Apr 2016 #66
In other words: Drill, Baby, Drill. Major Hogwash Apr 2016 #67
Next thing you know, they'll be bragging about how they paid for the tent. Octafish Apr 2016 #70
Of course they can LiberalElite Apr 2016 #71
No Big Oil is not welcomed in the Democratic party. Center right is not welcomed rockfordfile Apr 2016 #72
Yeah, once you let in the payday loan industry, QC Apr 2016 #74
WTF has happened to the Democratic party? BillZBubb Apr 2016 #77
Recently? Podesta/DWS/Clinton... n/t Earth_First Apr 2016 #78
I'm more concerned about those that fanatically support them and agree with them. BillZBubb Apr 2016 #79
 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
33. She Sounds Like A Republican
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:50 PM
Apr 2016

How on earth did she get this job? Who extorted who? She lost the House and Senate.

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
68. Not just appointed by Obama,
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 05:41 PM
Apr 2016

but remains in that position because Obama wants her there.

"I want to thank Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for being an outstanding chair of our party. (Applause.) She is a great partner."--President Obama


With "partners" like this, we don't need Republicans!

bvar22

(39,909 posts)
73. Probably closer to the truth.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 01:52 PM
Apr 2016

Last edited Mon Apr 18, 2016, 12:59 PM - Edit history (1)

"Someone Obama Is Beholden To Wants Her There"

I used to believe people who thought like that were paranoid...that there were no Powers-Behind-the-Throne in our democracy.

BUT, the last 30 years,
and our unchanging Foreign Policy toward the emerging true democracies in Latin America, support for Right Wing Police States in Latin America, and "projection of POWER and Regime Change in ME countries has changed my mind.

It does NOT matter who WE vote for or elect...these policies NEVER change.

"the illusion of freedom is going to continue, so long as it brings a profit to those creating the illusion. Once it becomes too expensive to maintain the illusion, the scenery will be taken down, the curtains will be removed, the tables and chairs will be moved out of your way and you will see what has actually been in front of you all along."
---Frank Zappa, prophet, visionary, philosopher, and musician



[font color=firebrick][center]The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those
who advance the agenda of THE RICH at the EXPENSE of the Working Class and the POOR. [/font]
[/center]


 

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)
75. Only Idiot Fools Cry, "Tin Foil Conspiracy"
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 07:24 PM
Apr 2016

They obviously have never operated in the business world. Everything is about favors, money, being beholden, conspiring etc. Arm chair evaluators are so naive to think everyone plays by the rules.

Response to IDemo (Original post)

 

Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
57. I think you're well-positioned to answer an urgent question.
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 03:38 AM
Apr 2016

What, exactly, the fuck is wrong with Clinton supporters? At exactly what point did you all step back, look at the democratic party, and say "Hmmm, no, it's not nearly republican enough for me!"

appalachiablue

(41,048 posts)
6. Corporate full press now and wagon circling after that ghastly debate performance. Bill, Biden,
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 09:42 PM
Apr 2016

Barney, Dean, DWS. Who's up next from the Guard?

Response to appalachiablue (Reply #6)

Ford_Prefect

(7,817 posts)
46. I was paraphrasing the penguin. That you raised the question makes your position on it clear.
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 12:42 AM
Apr 2016

I have no doubt they have cooked the convention in as many ways as they can, just as they have the primaries and caucusing. I think they take any advantage they can and believe that party politics is whatever you can get away with. Henry K. was always that sanguine about the process. The evidence is that Hillary and Debbie share his views of expedient power.

elleng

(130,126 posts)
19. Sorry, Debbie, it's all over.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:18 PM
Apr 2016

'rebuffed the idea that Democrats are in danger of falling prey to corporate influence.'

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
64. Done again....................................
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 01:19 PM
Apr 2016


Honk---------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016


 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
21. No, DWS, if you are a center right
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:29 PM
Apr 2016

person, you are not a leftist. Therefore in this two party system, you are not a Democrat. What a dumbass this woman is?!

There is more concern for it happening to the GOP? DWS, that ship done sailed. Maybe you have heard of the Powell memo and the Reagan revolution. You might also have heard of the DLC and the New Dems who are center right conservatives who are under the willing influence of corporatism.

This is truly a battle for the left in this country. Clinton and DWS must be put out to pasture.

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
24. DWS and HRC both right-leaning centrists.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:36 PM
Apr 2016

Lots of high people in their tent can be comfortable in the nice weather in Florida!

 

TM99

(8,352 posts)
25. There is no center.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:41 PM
Apr 2016

If you lean right, you are a conservative. If you lean left, you are a liberal. The two parties used to allow for this reality. Now the GOP is so far right of center that people think they DWS & HRC who are just moderate conservatives are actually Democrats!

earthside

(6,960 posts)
26. Gosh! She is awful.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:43 PM
Apr 2016

What a terribly inarticulate answer.

It would be so great if she lost her primary.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
28. There is something seriously wrong with that woman.
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:47 PM
Apr 2016

I don't know if is psychological, emotional, drugs, confusion. ..but something is not quite right.

Jack Rabbit

(45,984 posts)
29. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is full of steer manure
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:48 PM
Apr 2016

Along with crooked banks and major fossil fuel polluters -- and let's not forget Debbie's pal, your friendly neighborhood payday lender -- let's invite private prison corporations and mercenary service corporations like Blackwater Xe Academi.

The American and world economy is in crisis because of entire industries that should be done away with. Private prisons, mercenaries and payday lenders have no more right to exist than unregulated recreational drugs. I'd rather have heroin legalized than private prisons or mercenary service companies as those are industries than strive on high crime rates and international tensions. A legalized dope industry would be easier to regulate and contain, while private prisons and mercenaries would demand criminals to fill their prisons and wars, wars and more wars and bribe generously contribute to the campaigns of crooked politicians to make sure they are sustained by high crime rates and pointless wars.

Speaking of pointless wars, there are more reasons than anthropogenic climate change to want to do away with fossil fuels. The oil companies should stop lying about it; we know that knew about the dangers of climate change before the public did and immediately launched a PR campaign to deny there was any problem at all. We should make every effort to supplement and eventually supplant fossil fuels with wind and solar power in the next thirty years. If we had begun this process forty years ago, we'd done by now and the world would be a much better place with more blue sky and green grass.

Banking by its nature is a parasitic industry; it produces no wealth and only serves to move money around, which could be a useful enterprise when properly regulated. There is no question that Wall Street banks should be re-regulated by return to the status quo ante prior to 1999 when the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act became law and broken up to reduce the likelihood that a failure of one too-big-to-fail financial institution will drag the rest of the economy down with it. If that doesn't look like an adequate solution, then we can always nationalize the financial industry, which might be the ultimate solution to any parasitic industry.

noretreatnosurrender

(1,890 posts)
31. In Today's Democratic Party
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 10:49 PM
Apr 2016

Wall Street OWNS the Damn tent. Thanks Debbie for undercutting the dissent opinion on Citizens United. Why don't you just come out and tell everyone you agree with Scalia & McConnell on Citizens United instead of trying to shovel this ridiculous crap that only Republicans fall prey to corporate influence. Are there really people so stupid that they would actually believe her on this? How do they get dressed in the morning! Good grief.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
34. Agree with Debbie - someone's gotta buy the tent
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 11:00 PM
Apr 2016

and we miserable 99% just don't have that kinda money. Oh, hell - those DINO's know that they have to keep their noses up the asses of the rich , after all - how're they going to make a living when this is all over?

DonCoquixote

(13,615 posts)
35. “We have the ability to absorb and be unified with people on the far left and center right
Fri Apr 15, 2016, 11:00 PM
Apr 2016

sorry Debbie, that trick never had much pull, and it has less and less now that billionaires do not even have to show their faces behind the PACS. It is one thing to say you are a "big tent" party, but when certain people in the tent kicksout many who helped build it with our labor, votes and donations, what good is the size of the tent. The people hiding behind big money donations do NOT want a big tent to allow more people in, the Pete Petersons, The Lynn Rothschilds, the Erskine Bowles, the Rahm Emmanuels, and oh yes, you Debbie, whose outright support of Florida Republicans would get you a Pizza on DU have made it very clear that the big tent is so that the donors can fit their egos in, and that your goal is to shove us into a corner where we could be ignored and smothered (when our Social Security is cut off.)

It is one thing to have that big tent, but not when you are willing to throw out longtime residents so you can stuff it with a rich former GOP who is only trying to seek shelter from the flood they unleashed. Never mind the fact that these people you keep calling friends, the ones you reach across the aisle to work with, are merely waiting to grab you so that they can hang you from the same tree as those you back stabbed, because they really hate you just as much as they hate us.

Ruby the Liberal

(26,216 posts)
62. I agree with her quote
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 09:32 AM
Apr 2016

We are uniting the disaffected far left and center right. From the left.

If there is any sanity left, her new gig will be (D-Unemployed).

KPN

(15,585 posts)
43. DWS: The Republicans are worse than us.
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 12:18 AM
Apr 2016

Great team, her and Hillary. No we can't! They're worse than us!

Lunabell

(5,919 posts)
45. I wonder which one gave her the bigger donation?
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 12:41 AM
Apr 2016

Wall Street? Maybe, but big oil? NO FUCKING WAY! Hello, DWS, climate fucking change?

joedogs

(34 posts)
49. I think she suffering from RCI
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 01:06 AM
Apr 2016

I believe the problem is she is suffering from RCI [Rectal Cranial Inversion] in lay man's term she has her head up her ass. Once you take the money your done brought and paid for. Never to be able own your soul.

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
59. She can think and say what she wants, has everyone donated to Tim Canova this month yet?
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 07:00 AM
Apr 2016

Buh bye DWS!

Ruby the Liberal

(26,216 posts)
61. And payday lenders!!! w00t!!! Usury for everybody!!
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 08:54 AM
Apr 2016

I despise this woman. After my primary this month, off the (D) rolls I go and off I stay until she is no longer in any position of leadership in the party.

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
65. Dear Ms. Wasserman-Schultz...........................
Sat Apr 16, 2016, 01:52 PM
Apr 2016

this is what I think of your "big tent" DLC, Third Way ideas , we've seen this movie before, 1992-1999, and it is not a happy pretty picture, with a fairy tale book ending.................................and besides your record of getting "progressives, in Congress,is really not very good

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511607871

Honk-------------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016





Octafish

(55,745 posts)
70. Next thing you know, they'll be bragging about how they paid for the tent.
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 12:31 PM
Apr 2016

Then, they'll be saying, "Since I paid for the tent, I want you to do this for me."

Then those they paid for all those nice speeches will be saying, "What can I do for you?"

Then, those who hand-built the tent will be left outside, wondering, "What happened?"

LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
71. Of course they can
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 12:33 PM
Apr 2016

It's the rest of us getting the bum's rush to make room for them that I'm concerned about.

QC

(26,371 posts)
74. Yeah, once you let in the payday loan industry,
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 02:50 PM
Apr 2016

why keep anyone else out?

Is anyone still wondering why fewer working people think the Democrats are on their side?

BillZBubb

(10,650 posts)
77. WTF has happened to the Democratic party?
Sun Apr 17, 2016, 08:45 PM
Apr 2016

About the big money interests and corporations FDR said "I welcome their hatred!", DWS and Hillary say "we welcome their money!".

And anyone who tells you big money "contributions" don't buy any special favors is a damn liar. And if you believe them you are a damn fool.

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