{"id":22906,"date":"2016-07-27T09:40:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=22906"},"modified":"2016-07-27T09:43:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:43:59","slug":"the-long-fall-of-debbie-wasserman-schultz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/07\/27\/the-long-fall-of-debbie-wasserman-schultz\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long Fall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic<\/em> magazine has the article The Long Fall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

… her tenure was rocky long before that\u2014in fact, within a month of her being named in 2011 to finish the term of Tim Kaine, who had just been elected to the Senate, Democrats were starting to grumble about her. When her term ended after Obama\u2019s reelection, there was more sniping about her leadership, and Obama\u2019s advisors urged him to bring in someone new, but Wasserman Schultz made it clear she wouldn\u2019t go without a fight, according to reports at the time and my sources inside the DNC. And so the White House chose the path of least resistance and kept her in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At the time this happened, I remember being rather disgusted that Obama allowed her to continue. It was already clear that she had a lot to do with Democratic losses. She was more interested in funneling money to her network of select campaign ill-advisors than she was interested in winning political office for other Democrats. Perhaps she was actually working to get these other Democrats to lose.<\/p>\n

After writing the above remark, I came across another important item.\u00a0 I don’t want to push fair use too far, but I have to include this excerpt.<\/p>\n

The larger issue, many Democrats told me, was the White House\u2019s lack of concern with the health of the party, which allowed the DNC to atrophy. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of soul-searching and reckoning to be done going forward about the role of the party,\u201d Smith said. Obama won the nomination by running against the party establishment, and once he got into office converted his campaign into a new organization, Organizing for America. It was technically a part of the DNC, but in reality served as a rival to it that redirected the party\u2019s organizing functions, effectively gutting its field operation. The weakened DNC bears some of the responsibility for the epic down-ballot losses\u2014in Congress, state offices, and legislatures\u2014that have occurred during Obama\u2019s presidency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why, oh why did the people in the know keep pretending that she was doing a good job?\u00a0 This is typical of private industry, too.\u00a0 People are afraid of getting sued if they say anything bad about a person’s performance.\u00a0 This makes people only too glad to help someone find a new job to get them out of their current position.\u00a0 Whoever is inquiring about hiring this hated person gets glowing reviews from his or her references who are so anxious to get rid of the person.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic magazine has the article The Long Fall of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. … her tenure was rocky long before that\u2014in fact, within a month of her being named in 2011 to finish the term of Tim Kaine, who had just been elected to the Senate, Democrats were starting to grumble about her. When her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22906"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22908,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions\/22908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}