Pres. Obama Should Tell Wasserman Schultz To Go -- And Go Now
03/15/2016 02:52 pm ET
Two months before the 2014 midterm elections, President Obama issued this statement that read in part: "The president's foremost political goal is helping Democrats do well in the midterms -- and Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz is doing a great job in that effort."
Obama was horribly disappointed in his first wish and horribly off in the second in complimenting Wasserman Schultz. The midterm losses for the Democrats were nothing short of catastrophic. The GOP took back the Senate, tightened its grip on the House, and increased its dominance of local state legislatures and state houses nationally.
The blame finger squarely pointed at the same Wasserman Schultz that Obama had showered with fulsome praise in the months before the debacle. And rightly so. The Democratic National Committee is tasked with the chore of spotting and recruiting able talent to run as Democrats for office, then helping to raise money for the Democratic candidates and incumbents, putting volunteer and paid professional boots on the ground for their campaigns, and mounting an all-out get out the vote blitz in the weeks leading up to the election to put Democrats locally and nationally over the top.
This takes a well-oiled, well-coordinated ground game to put as many Democrats as possible in Congress and to keep the ones who are there there. That's a more than full-time job. There's no room for a part-timer and especially a part-timer who remains under fire within and without her own party for ineptness, incompetence and blatant Clinton favoritism, and is locked in a hotly contested Democratic primary race to keep her own Florida congressional seat.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/earl-ofari-hutchinson/pres-obama-should-tell-wasserman-schultz-to-go_b_9470170.html
= new reply since forum marked as read
