Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz Even Worse Than A Corporate-Leaning "New Democrat?" [View All]

Short answer: you have to fish pretty deep down into the barrel to find anyone as bad as Wasserman Schultz. Even though she mostly rubber stamps what the Democratic leadership wants-- unless it comes into direct conflict with her financial backers, like Florida's loathsome sugar interests-- DWS is a self-serving ruthlessly ambitious gut-fighter. Few people outside of Florida had ever even heard of her until she sabotaged three Democratic congressional nominees-- Joe Garcia, Raul Martinez and Annette Taddeo-- who were running against 3 of her far right Republican allies, the notorious Diaz-Balart brothers and Ileana Ros-Letinen. Although she was entrusted by the Democratic caucus with a chairmanship of the Red to Blue program-- the body that is charged with defeating Republicans and electing Democratic challengers-- she dealt fatal body blows to the 3 South Florida Democrats and gratuitously insulted another Florida challenger, Doug Tudor, who might have won his race against Adam Putnam if the DCCC had backed him instead of following her negative and vindictive decision to ignore his race. The three races DWS sabotaged:

FL-12
Adam Putnam- 178,808 (58%)- $1,747,288
Doug Tudor- 127,477 (42%)- $88,985

FL-18
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen- 137,817 (58%)- $2,186,243
Annette Taddeo- 100,929 (42%)- $960,807

FL-21
Lincoln Diaz-Balart- 134,134 (58%)- $2,000,553
Raul Martinez- 97,928 (42%)- $1,073,913

FL-25
Mario Diaz-Balart- 127,059 (53%)- $1,516,763
Joe Garcia- 113,495 (47%)- $1,248,126

Instead Wasserman-Schultz poured energy and resources into Blue Dog hack Christine Jennings who managed to eke out 38% of the vote in FL-13, spending over $2,000,000.

So what brings this harridan up again today?

*snip*

I've been keeping my fingers crossed that she'd resign from Congress and run for Martinez' Senate seat against Jeb Bush, which would at least offer a wonderful silver lining to the inevitability of a Senator Bush. But that isn't today's DWS story. Today we have her trying to claw her way into the Democratic House leadership again. As it becomes likelier and likelier that Xavier Becerra will be leaving the House-- GO ERIC GARCETTI!!-- Wasserman Schultz is sniffing out an opportunity for self-promotion.