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 theyre going after: Wall Street, Big Oil.
Both political parties through time immemorial have had a range of views across a spectrum, but were 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 theres 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/
revbones
(3,660 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)How on earth did she get this job? Who extorted who? She lost the House and Senate.
ReRe
(10,597 posts)... wasn't she appointed by Pres Obama?
bvar22
(39,909 posts)but remains in that position because Obama wants her there.
With "partners" like this, we don't need Republicans!
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)bvar22
(39,909 posts)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.
---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)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.
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msongs
(67,193 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)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!"
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Right.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)SoLeftIAmRight
(4,883 posts)it leaves me numb
appalachiablue
(41,048 posts)Barney, Dean, DWS. Who's up next from the Guard?
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appalachiablue
(41,048 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,817 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)Ford_Prefect
(7,817 posts)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.
dogman
(6,073 posts)We are not an alternative, we are GOP lite.
onecaliberal
(32,478 posts)FlatBaroque
(3,160 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)It was painful to watch her stagger through that response.
WestSeattle2
(1,730 posts)mudstump
(342 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)THIS is the reason I will NEVER vote for HRC.
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Good.
ananda
(28,782 posts)I really hope your opponent in FL wins!
840high
(17,196 posts)woofless
(2,670 posts)but I prescribe X-lax. This person is clearly full of shit.
GummyBearz
(2,931 posts)Because that would make sense
elleng
(130,126 posts)'rebuffed the idea that Democrats are in danger of falling prey to corporate influence.'
Omaha Steve
(99,060 posts)Donate to Democratic Underground for Tim Canova FL-23 here: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/du4timcanova
turbinetree
(24,632 posts)Honk---------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
TM99
(8,352 posts)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)Lots of high people in their tent can be comfortable in the nice weather in Florida!
TM99
(8,352 posts)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!
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)CharlotteVale
(2,717 posts)earthside
(6,960 posts)What a terribly inarticulate answer.
It would be so great if she lost her primary.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)distraught ninny.
DebbieCDC
(2,542 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)I don't know if is psychological, emotional, drugs, confusion. ..but something is not quite right.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)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.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)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)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)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)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).
MrMickeysMom
(20,453 posts)Your ways are old.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)KPN
(15,585 posts)Great team, her and Hillary. No we can't! They're worse than us!
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)You are right -- hadn't considered that.
Lunabell
(5,919 posts)Wall Street? Maybe, but big oil? NO FUCKING WAY! Hello, DWS, climate fucking change?
Zira
(1,054 posts)joedogs
(34 posts)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.
elmac
(4,642 posts)Fairgo
(1,571 posts)BeanMusical
(4,389 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Must Be Some Good DLC S**T...
Scuba
(53,475 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Buh bye DWS!
Ruby the Liberal
(26,216 posts)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.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)turbinetree
(24,632 posts)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
LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)She's a total idiot.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)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)It's the rest of us getting the bum's rush to make room for them that I'm concerned about.
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)QC
(26,371 posts)why keep anyone else out?
Is anyone still wondering why fewer working people think the Democrats are on their side?
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)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.