Hey, DNC, Whose SIDE Are You On?

[Segami]

Friday morning, Sen. Elizabeth Warren rocked the Netroots Nation 2014 crowd with a rousing speech about what it means to be a Democrat, what we believe in.

"The game is rigged. And the rich and the powerful have lobbyists and lawyers and plenty of friends in Congress. Everybody else, not so much. So the way I see this is we can whine about it, we can whimper about it or we can fight back. I'm fighting back!"

Warren ran through a list of progressive policy positions, asserting that "we believe" in tougher rules for Wall Street; science; net neutrality; raising the minimum wage; a livable wage for fast food workers; making sure students aren't burdened by crushing debt; protecting Social Security, Medicare and pensions; equal pay for equal work; equality; immigration reform and the fact that corporations are not people.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/elizabeth-warren-netroots-nation_n_5599178.html

That's good red meat for a Democratic base that needs to be activated for November, the speech she's been giving to mobilize the base around the country. So where was the DNC this week, in Detroit, backing up Warren? Nope. DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was hanging out with the Third Way.






Yeah. That would be the Third Way that attacked Sen. Warren for her economic populism, the Third Way whose board of directors is completely stacked with CEOs and investment bankers. Maybe Third Way puts out a better breakfast spread than Netroots Nation. But the DNC has to consider this. When the chips are down this fall, who are they going to be asking to make GOTV calls and go door to door? Who is running their voter registration drives? And just which Democratic senator is out working the crowds in the red states for a Democratic Senate in 2014?



DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz might want to reconsider the kind of crowd she's hanging with.




http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/18/1314951/-Hey-DNC-whose-side-are-you-on

[antigop]

1. k&r nt

[Scuba]

2. K&R

[L0oniX]

3. Hey DNC ...good luck with that.

[Hoppy]

4. That's why I don't donate to DNC.

[zeemike]

17. Well let's face it they don't really need your money anyway.

they have corporate persons that can donate ten times as much as you.

[WillyT]

5. K & R !!!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The DNC are bagmen for the corporations.

[cantbeserious]

9. + 1,000

eom

[DonCoquixote]

7. reason number one million why we need DWS OUT!

She is a major reason why the Florida democrats are WEAK.

[cantbeserious]

8. Proof Positive - HRC And The DNC Leadership - DLC Shills - Are Not Interested In Principles

eom

[stillwaiting]

20. Oh they are interested in principles that support the interests of the elite at the expense of 99%nt

[cantbeserious]

25. + 1

eom

[Triana]

10. GIVE. THEM. HELL. @DWSTweets and @TheDemocrats

They ought to be SLAMMED with tweets about this.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. The DNC loves to cruise the DC Beltway parties and brag about getting more money from corporations.

[abelenkpe]

12. K&R

[obxhead]

13. Their corporate overlords side.

The DNC couldn't give a shit about the people or even Democrats. All they care about are the corporations and their profits.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. A foul canard, my friend.

Their major concerns are not the corporations at all, except insofar as said corporations can contribute to their own power and wealth, whether via campaign contributions and cushy jobs after leaving office (for the politicians), or super-lobbyist money and consultant fees for the non-elected pundits, gurus, and think-tank denizens.

[Ed Suspicious]

14. K&R. Yes there is a growing rift in the democratic party. Don't fear it, just get the third

way to start acting the right way and all will be fine. The energy is behind the right way. The people are behind the right way. The third way better take notice.

[Jack Rabbit]

16. Detroit is the last place a Democrat should palling around with economic terrorists.

Not after the way Snyder and Orr fucked over that city. I'd be very suspicious of any one who acts like a good friend of power elites. In fact, I would say that is acting like a Republican. If I want a future where the corporate pay working people nothing and collect it all, stifle innovation because they don't want any competition, rob their customers blind because they've bribed the politicians into repealing laws against fraud, don't pay taxes because they think they're better than people work for a living, and can get a kangaroo court with corporates shysters for judges created by a free trade agreement negotiated in secret to invalidate heath and safety regulations, then I'll vote Republican.

[Enthusiast]

18. Kicked and recommended!

Sorry to say it but I am clear done with Wasserman Schultz.

[stillwaiting]

19. It's clear whose side they are on. No further questions needed.

It needs to be openly and boldly asserted at every moment so that more and more people wake up to what's going on within the Democratic Party.

[PowerToThePeople]

21. Puke

[pa28]

22. Can we please have Howard Dean back now?

[BuelahWitch]

23. I was thinking the same thing

But the Democrats threw him under the bus ages ago.

[calimary]

29. Not THIS Democrat!

I want Dr. Dean back, too! His 50-State Strategy was EXCELLENT. And it drew blood in 2006 AND 2008.

[Martin Eden]

24. Corporate Democrats

The same as corporate Republicans, in many ways that count.

[fredamae]

26. Seems to me

"DNC Chair Wasserman Schultz might want to reconsider the kind of crowd she's hanging with."

She's clearly already made her choice and btw, she Also is a member of The New Dem Coalition-which is also Clintonian "RW Corp Blue Dog Dem" types, imo,
http://newdemocratcoalition-kind.house.gov/membership

I have no use for any of them...I am, after-all a Democrat and these people, who like to call themselves Democrats have long ago left traditional Democratic Values behind...because Money.

[1StrongBlackMan]

27. Funny ...

Elizabeth Warren and Debbie Wasserman Schultz consider themselves on the SAME side.

As much as (some) DUers would have it otherwise, we need both the progressive wing AND the "3rd-Way" wing to win in 2014.

[JoePhilly]

28. They are vested in division.

[1StrongBlackMan]

30. {Insert name of Libertarian Candidate of your choosing here} for 2016!!!! ...

(because, hey ... NSA, No More War, Complete (non-existent) Government Transparency)