I must confess I had never heard of Deborah Wasserman-Schultz – Democratic Congresswoman from Florida’s 2oth – but it’s a long way from LA to Broward County. In any case she seems like a nice enough woman. She’s responsible for safety-oriented swimming pool legislation in Florida.
But she sure seemed like a deer caught in the proverbial headlights on Fox News today when asked to justify Biden’s views on Iran. (He was one of four senators to vote against declaring the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. There’s a lot more, some of which we will be revealed on Pajamas Media in days to come.) Wasserman mouthed platitudes about the Jewish vote and how it was outrageous for anyone to doubt Biden on Iran and his loyalty to Israel, etc., etc. I wonder how much Wasserman knows about Iran and about the Pasdaran and its Quds force. Not a great deal, I would hope. Otherwise she would not be so sanguine about Biden’s vote. Any normal Jewish person would cringe.
Note to Wasserman: Stop being a party hack. This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats. This is about forces far more important than mere domestic politics. Study harder. Don’t let yourself be used.
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1. Minerva:Jeez, and TIME this week picked her as one of the new faces of the revitalized Democrat Party. Not to worry, this week McCain-Powell will be announced.
Aug 24, 2008 - 4:10 pm 2. Barry Dauphin:The Administration has been so successful in the WoT that she can play party politics. We’ve been so safe that she doesn’t get it or get how it has been accomplished. In fact the left has become more or less convinced that the threat has been greatly exaggerated by Bushitlerburton and that 9/11 was a one off and that it happened on Bush’s watch so it’s his fault anyway.
Aug 24, 2008 - 4:36 pm 3. ricpic:There are a lot of Jews who think, “Oh, he’s a Democrat? he’s for us,” end of discussion. Suicidal but true.
Aug 24, 2008 - 5:52 pm 4. david levavi:…Any normal Jewish person would cringe…
Every normal Jewish person should cringe at the Jewish politicians who’ve elbowed their way onto the national scene. The cream aint that rises to the top in American Jewish society.
Joe Lieberman is the only Jewish politician of national stature with any semblance of worth. The Wassermans, Bloombergs, Shumers and Levins merely exploit their Jewish name recognition with Jewish voters to further their personal and political ambitions.
Jewish voters, sad to say, deserve these creeps. The ouster of Al D’Amato in favor of Chuck Shumer in New York was emblematic. The American Jewish community never had an abler or more devoted champion than this Italian Catholic Senator. Prejudiced and self-destructive Jewish voters dumped him for a loudmouthed, sweaty, Democrat Party hack with a Jewish name.
Jewish politicians who stand for a strong and robust America stand for a strong and robust Israel. Those who equivocate and rationalize and find sympathy with America’s enemies do likewise with Israel’s enemies.
Your advice to Wasserman is wasted. Look at her bio. This yenta could no more stop being a hack and gain principles than than a pig can sprout wings and fly.
Aug 24, 2008 - 5:54 pm 5. Captain Hate:“a loudmouthed, sweaty, Democrat Party hack with a Jewish name”
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Shumer described more accurately, although you might want to add “pathological need to be on Sunday talk shows where he says nothing of substance while creeping viewers out”. Although that might’ve been implied in the “loudmouthed” description.
Aug 24, 2008 - 8:29 pm 6. heather:as I age I become not wiser but more irritable. Roger, you are so right: there is no excuse for such as Deborah Wasserman-Schultz for NOT ‘reading’, or ‘finding out.’ What is it about these lefties: are their brains complete couch potatoes?
Also, Chuck Schumer looks exactly like a mafia lawyer. As the NE USA loses its power to the West and the South, what comes first, the chicken (less power, crappier politicians, fewer people), or a couple of generations of crappy politicians leaching the wealth of the NE??
Aug 24, 2008 - 11:44 pm 7. Charlie (Colorado):Jeez, and TIME this week picked her as one of the new faces of the revitalized Democrat Party. Not to worry, this week McCain-Powell will be announced.
They said “faces”, not “brains.”
Aug 25, 2008 - 12:31 am 8. buddy larsen:Middle daughter’s longtime boyfriend –with whom i argue politics continually because he is so ”open minded” about ”all side’s interests” in this hundred year’s war –left Texas two plus weeks ago (in some program Israeli gov’t has where Jewish young folks worlwide are offered a free ‘lifetime’ two-week trip to Israel) and is due back tomorrow. He’s half Ukrainian too –Ukraine, next on Bear’s menu –anyway i can’t wait to de-brief him after his two weeks in the target zone –wonder if he’s still so open-minded –i say this in sadness, not glee –
Aug 25, 2008 - 12:44 am 9. Michael Bryant:I live in the FL-20th District. She is my rep. She and I have had heated conversations via email and correspondence.
This county (Broward) has a large number of retirees and transplants from New York and the Northeast and they have brought their politics with them. A republican or anyone for that matter who does not toe the party line has about as much chance of being elected as a snowball in hell.
Aug 25, 2008 - 6:10 am 10. Neobuzz:Any normal . . . person would cringe.
Aug 25, 2008 - 9:32 am 11. Neobuzz:Note to Simon: “Stop being a party hack” is a topic that merits more effort than a footnote attached to a blog post. It merits a PJM article or even a book. It is the essence of what is wrong with politics today. This footnote makes for a pretty good first outline of your book:
Chapter 1 – Introduction – STOP BEING A PARTY HACK
Aug 25, 2008 - 9:49 am 12. MarcH:Chapter 2 – FORCES THAT TRANSCEND DOMESTIC POLITICS
Chapter 3 – STUDY HARDER
Chapter 4 – DON’T LET YOURSELF BE USED
“Any normal Jewish person would cringe” – that was true as recently as 1973 but, for a sizable segment of American Jews, not now true. The current generation are like any other set of suburban, affluent, pampered, secular Americans – entirely divorced from the realities of violence and fanatacism in the world. There are exceptions, mostly older and/or more traditionally religous Jews.
Aug 25, 2008 - 10:38 am 13. Susan Katz Keating:Buddy, I’d love to see the results of that debrief. “Open mindedness” is the luxury of those who are not at risk of having to pick the shrapnel out of their hides or of waking up find the bear lurking in the tree outside.
Aug 25, 2008 - 10:41 am 14. gabriel soren:Debbie is my congresswoman, I live in Montreal but vote absentee. Sh’s one dumb person. I frequently answer her official e’mails. Totally hopeless. Only voted for her hoping she’ll help Israel.
Aug 25, 2008 - 7:21 pm 15. heather:another thing about America’s Jewish Lobby: of COURSE there is a “Jewish Lobby”; just like there is/was an “Irish Republican Lobby” (Kennedys and Buchanen, all on the same page there); and the African American Lobby, which supported South Africa… and I suppose as the Vietnamese settle in, there will be a “vietnamese Lobby.” Not to mention, a “Mexico Lobby.” That is how much of America’s foreign policy moves. OK?
Sheesh.
Aug 26, 2008 - 10:27 am 16. buddy larsen:Susan –i think i’ll send him this site & try to cajole him into giving a report –all i’ve got so far is “the food was GREAT!”
Aug 27, 2008 - 3:58 pm 17. buddy larsen:over at Belmont, discussing Obama, a commenter posted:
what is the question? there’s no mystery about who is barry, nor what he is. an invited speaker at the democratic convention is ingrid mattson, an islamic fascist, president of isna, funded by mansour, with ties to the fanatical muslim brotherhood. her website calls for the murder of jews. the democrats were asked to disinvite her. they ignored the request. the only newspaper that picked up the ap release was canadian. the only question is, why are we monkeying around with this dangerous fraud, barry, and his strange candidacy?
Aug 27, 2008 - 9:26 pm