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Why hasn't DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ been fired yet? (Original Post) BP2 Nov 2014 OP
Maybe no one else wants the job? femmocrat Nov 2014 #1
So why hasn't she been fired yet, again? Travelman Nov 2014 #14
Why are Reid and Pelosi not stepping down? hrmjustin Nov 2014 #2
I agree Renew Deal Nov 2014 #10
I wish Reid had the Balls Pelosi has world wide wally Nov 2014 #11
Better yet, why hasn't she resigned and taken Steve Israel with her? LoisB Nov 2014 #3
A better, better question is why she did resign a year ago! 4139 Nov 2014 #7
What's wrong? She did her job. Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #4
I wonder how much of this debacle is your fault? randys1 Nov 2014 #9
Why haven't all Dems killed themselves yet!!! JoePhilly Nov 2014 #5
Holding onto dead weight isn't helpful to the cause. n/t BP2 Nov 2014 #8
We appear to be a party of dead weight. JoePhilly Nov 2014 #19
Probably because... Mike Nelson Nov 2014 #6
She needs to go..and replaced by someone who doesn't have a day job!! tokenlib Nov 2014 #12
Bingo. Congresspeople already spend half their waking hours raising money for their own campaigns. Gidney N Cloyd Nov 2014 #20
No to Pelosi running again as Dem leader (and not Hoyer either, please), and same goes to Reid. Mass Nov 2014 #13
Agree bigwillq Nov 2014 #15
Bring Back Howard Dean. Blue Idaho Nov 2014 #16
Because she did a very good job raising money, which is what the DNC chair's job description is Recursion Nov 2014 #17
She should have tendered her resignation already. Paladin Nov 2014 #18

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)
1. Maybe no one else wants the job?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:31 PM
Nov 2014

Who knows?

Going into the convention though.... we need a strong organizer!

Travelman

(708 posts)
14. So why hasn't she been fired yet, again?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 09:35 PM
Nov 2014

If a strong organizer is what's needed (and I would agree that is the case), then it's BLATANTLY clear that DWS most certainly isn't that.

She has been one embarrassing gaffe after another, something that the Rs have used to just beat people with like a club. After that Politico article a month or so ago, I at least got some more insight into what's been going on. She talks about the party, but she acts in self-interest, and it just so happens that occasionally those two swerve into the same lane.

Someone above said that the better idea is to get someone who doesn't have a day job. I would agree. The job of being the chair is, for lack of a better description, to be a "hired gun:" someone who has a solitary purpose of bundling the party together and urging them on to go out, get motivated, and most importantly VOTE. DWS talked a lot about what a great ground game the Democrats had in the GOTV department, but it seems pretty damned apparent to me now that that talk was just that: talk, not reality, not action.


I don't know who should be in that position, but I know that she definitely shouldn't be.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
4. What's wrong? She did her job.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:32 PM
Nov 2014

She suppressed all the potential threats to Business as Usual. She re-focused the party on the No-State Strategy, and moved us a long way toward that goal.

randys1

(16,286 posts)
9. I wonder how much of this debacle is your fault?
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 06:55 PM
Nov 2014

Not necessarily you yourself alone, but that whole "Democrats aint much better than the cons cause they are all the same almost"

I mean that is kind of your and your friends spiel, right?

You see I actually agree with you for the most part but I dont know if you or your friends are for real or not or if you are here and elsewhere to cause unrest and distrust thus causing folks to NOT vote, or not.

I dont know what to believe anymore, or who.

What I know is I too think DWS has been a disaster and she needs to be replaced...

tokenlib

(4,186 posts)
12. She needs to go..and replaced by someone who doesn't have a day job!!
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:16 PM
Nov 2014

A return to a 50 state strategy,and a chair who is full time..but I'm not holding my breath...

Gidney N Cloyd

(19,833 posts)
20. Bingo. Congresspeople already spend half their waking hours raising money for their own campaigns.
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 12:12 PM
Nov 2014

How much time could a sitting congresswoman realistically have to focus on running the party?

Mass

(27,315 posts)
13. No to Pelosi running again as Dem leader (and not Hoyer either, please), and same goes to Reid.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 07:33 PM
Nov 2014

Blue Idaho

(5,048 posts)
16. Bring Back Howard Dean.
Wed Nov 5, 2014, 09:48 PM
Nov 2014

His 50 state strategy worked. What ever the hell DWS did was a complete flop.

BTW - she should have the decency to resign after mishandling of this election.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
17. Because she did a very good job raising money, which is what the DNC chair's job description is
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 02:33 AM
Nov 2014

She outraised the Republicans at least as far as hard money goes.

Paladin

(28,252 posts)
18. She should have tendered her resignation already.
Thu Nov 6, 2014, 09:35 AM
Nov 2014

I'm sick to death of second-stringers repeatedly leading our party into compromise and defeat, thereby providing aid and comfort to the radicalized right wing in this country. Enough.

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