MSNBC’s Brzezinski Calls For Wasserman Schultz To Resign.

[RKP5637]

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http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/18/msnbcs-brzezinski-calls-for-wasserman-schultz-to-resign-video/

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski called on Debbie Wasserman Schultz to step down as chair of the Democratic Party because the Florida congresswoman is blatantly favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders.

Appearing on “Morning Joe” on Wednesday, Brzezinski said that Sanders treatment by the Democratic Party “has been very poorly handled from the start. It has been unfair and they haven’t taken him seriously, and it starts quite frankly with the person that we just heard speaking. It just does.”

[MrWendel]

1. 1/2 of...

the Don's personal Morning reporter calls for DWS to resign. Shocked I tells ya! SHOCKED!

[Wibly]

80. Must have a point

When you have to resort to making the person guilty by association, instead of countering the suggestion with some valid reasons and facts to explain why DWS should stay, then it appears the "Don's personal Morning reporter" must have a point.

[joeybee12]

2. Mike and Morning Joe have been promoting tRump for months

Not a surprise she supports one of Bernie's poor loser memes to stir things up. Pathetic

[roguevalley]

112. sad for you

[joeybee12]

113. Don't be...

I can see motives quite easily...it's seems to finally be settling in that Senator do-Nothing really will lose, and the nastiness from his side is really bubbling over...wonder which stage of grief this is?

[RiverNoord]

115. Huh.

I've arrived at the point where I understand that I'm going to be wrong about the motives of people more often than not, no matter the people or subject at issue.

Sometimes, among a bunch of people, all involved in the same particular subject at issue, the subject turns out to be, in reality, a very different subject for each person involved. I think that's probably more the rule than the exception.

Just imagine the kind of money a skill like yours is worth. Just to start with, you could be a poker superstar. Or, imagine what kind of salesperson you could be - what was <possible buyer's> motive in asking this or that, etc.

If you want to serve your country, you could be a tremendous asset for American diplomats! Evaluating motives is critical to negotiation.

You probably had my motives for writing this nailed down after the first couple of words. Wish I could do that.

[Iliyah]

3. Right Wingers telling Dems what to do, go figure - LOL

[arcane1]

18. Makes sense, since DWS is a right winger herself n/t

[LovingA2andMI]

23. Or DWS is a DINO

Which can be one in the same....

[Plucketeer]

88. My sentiments per-zactly!

DWS and crew have been tirelessly courting the Rights base support - so it figures the Right would try to fend them off - the coronation crew - and keep that feeding trough all to themselves!

[lewebley3]

61. Sanders people are bulling DWS: they don't rep most Dem's behavior

[scscholar]

76. How long before more death threats start?

This is getting depressing.

[LiberalLovinLug]

65. Right Wingers already tell them who to hire

So why wouldn't they tell them when to let them go?

http://www.whiteoutpress.com/articles/q42012/list-of-goldman-sachs-employees-in-the-white-house/

Goldman Sachs Personnel in the Barack Obama White House:

Lael Brainard: Brainard is the United States Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs in the administration of Obama.

Gregory Craig: Former White House Counsel, Recently hired by Goldman Sachs.

Thomas Donilon: Deputy National Security Adviser (despite having a career that is mostly involved with domestic politics). Donilon was a lawyer at O’Melveny and Myers and made almost $4 million representing meltdown clients including Penny Pritzker (of Chicago) and Goldman Sachs.

William C. Dudley: President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs and was the firm’s chief U.S. economist for a decade.

Douglas Elmendorf: Obama Director of the Congressional Budget Office in January 2009, replaced Furman as Director of the Hamilton Project (Note that the Hamilton Project was funded by Robert Rubin and Goldman Sachs).

Rahm Emanuel: Obama Chief of Staff, on the payroll of Goldman Sachs receiving $3,000 per month from the firm to “introduce us to people", in the words of one Goldman Sachs partner at the time.

Dianna Farrell: Obama Administration: Deputy Director, National Economic Council. Former Goldman Sachs Title: Financial Analyst.

Stephen Friedman: Obama Administration: Chairman, President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. Former Goldman Sachs Title: Board Member (Chairman 1990-94; Director 2005).

Michael Frohman: Robert Rubin’s Chief of Staff while Rubin served as Secretary of the Treasury and an Obama “head hunter” according to “Rubin Proteges Change Their Tune as They Join Obama’s Team” in the New York Times.

Anne Fudge: Appointed to Obama budget deficit reduction committee. Fudge has been the PR craftsman for some of America’s largest corporations. She sits, according to the Washington Post, as a Trustee of the Brookings Institution within which the Hamilton Project is embedded.

Jason Furman: Directed economic policy for the Obama Presidential Campaign, served as the second Director of the Hamilton Project after Peter Orszag’s departure for the Obama administration.

Mark Gallogly: Sits on the Hamilton Project’s advisory council. He is also, according to Wikipedia, currently a member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board.

Timothy Geithner: Secretary of the Treasury, former President of the New York Fed. a former managing director of Goldman Sachs.

Gary Gensler: Obama Administration: Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Former Goldman Sachs Title: Partner and Co-head of Finance.

Michael Greenstone: The 4th Director of the Hamilton Project. Just as attorney Craig went from advising Obama to defending Goldman Sachs against the SEC complaint, Greenstone has used the revolving door to go from an Obama economic adviser position to one of the Goldman Sachs outlets - in this case its think tank embedded in the Brookings Institution and funded by Goldman Sachs and Robert Rubin. All 3 previous Directors of the Hamilton Project work in the Obama administration.

Robert Hormats: Obama Administration: Undersecretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, State Department. Former Goldman Sachs Title: Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Group.

Neel Kashkari: Served under Treasury Secretary Paulson (a former Goldman Sachs CEO) and was kept on by Obama after his inauguration for a limited period to work on TARP oversight. Former Vice President of Goldman Sachs in San Francisco where he led Goldman’s Information Technology Security Investment Banking practice.

Karen Kornbluh: (Sometimes called "Obama’s brain&quot Obama Ambassador to the OECD. Was Deputy Chief of Staff to 'Mr. Goldman Sachs', Robert Rubin.

Jacob "Jack" Lew: The United States Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources. According to Wikipedia, Lew sits on the Brookings-Rubin funded Hamilton Project Advisory Board. He also served with Robert Rubin in Bill Clinton’s cabinet as Director of OMB.

David Lipton: Now on Obama’s National Economic Council and the National Security Council. Lipton worked with Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner on the US response to the Asian financial crisis of the 1990’s. MergeFoundations reports that Lipton worked closely with Robert Rubin.

Emil Michael: White House Fellow. Former investment banker with Goldman Sachs.

Eric Mindich: Former chief strategy officer of New York-based Goldman Sachs, started Eton Park in 2004 with $3.5 billion, at the time one of the biggest hedge-fund launches ever. .....Hank Paulson Tipped Off The Goldman-Led "Plunge Protection Team" About Fannie Bankruptcy 7 Weeks In Advance (2007): Goldman operative Eric Mindich in the hierarchy of the Asset Managers' committee of the President's Working Group on Capital Markets, better known of course as the PPT (in 2009).

Philip Murphy: Obama Administration: Ambassador to Germany. Former Goldman Sachs Title: Head of Goldman Sachs, Frankfurt.

Barack Obama: Obama owes his career to Goldman Sachs which was not only his biggest financial contributor when he ran for the Presidency, but was also his biggest contributor when he ran for the US Senate.

Peter Orszag: Obama Budget Director. Founding director of the Hamilton Project, funded by Goldman Sachs and Robert Rubin. Wikipedia indicates that Robert Rubin, Goldman’s ex-CEO, was one of Orszag’s mentors.

Mark Patterson: Obama Administration: Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geitner. Former Goldman Sachs Title: Lobbyist 2005-2008; Vice President for Government Relations.

Mark Peterson: Chief of staff to Timothy Geithner. Goldman Sachs Vice President and lobbyist.

Steve Ratner: The shady billionaire financier who Obama appointed as his “car czar” and who resigned after it was revealed that his company, the Quadrangle Group, was apparently involved in “pay to play” for a billion dollars or so of New York State pension funds, and was under possible indictment by the New York AG and the SEC. Sits on the Advisory Council of the Goldman funded Hamilton Project.

Robert Reischauer: A member of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission from 2000-2009 and was its Vice Chair from 2001-2008. He too sits on the Hamilton Project’s advisory board.

Alice Rivlin: Obama named Alice Rivlin to his so-called Deficit Reduction Commission.

James Rubin: Son of Robert Rubin. Served as a 'headhunter' for Obama per the New York Times article, "Rubin Proteges Change Their Tune as They Join Obama’s Team".

Gene Sperling: Advisor to Timothy Geithner on bailouts. Sperling paid by Goldman Sachs for one year of consulting work.

Adam Storch: Obama Managing Executive of the Security and Exchange Commission’s Division of Enforcement. Former Vice President in the Goldman Sachs Business Intelligence Group.

Larry Summers: Obama chief economic adviser and head of the National Economic Counsel. Worked under Robert Rubin at Goldman Sachs.

John Thain: Obama Administration: Advisor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner. Former Goldman Sachs Title: President and Chief Operating Officer (1999-2003).


and on and on....


So many that Elizabeth Warren wrote a piece saying Enough is Enough in 2014:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/presidents-wall-street-nominee_b_6188324.html

[bjobotts]

106. When you don't like the truth message attack the messenger.Typical Clinton-no, so get real.

[bigwillq]

4. I call on DWS to resign.

DWS is terrible.

[JDPriestly]

58. She does not have a winning personality and should not be our spokesperson on TV.

[arikara]

71. That is such a polite way to say it

But to be blunt, she comes across as a crook. Shifting her eyes, unable to look at the interviewer, stuttering, stammering, gulping so much it looks like an Adam's apple going up and down.

If I was on a jury, I would be hard pressed to believe a witness who presented themselves like that.

[Plucketeer]

95. She's NOT good at putting on a facade of decency (and that's what it really is)

Even when she's smiling, you can sense the caustic person hiding beneath that facade. It's like the devil trying to hide in an ill-fitting costume. You just KNOW that ain't no little lamb neath that disguise, and you can COUNT ON getting fleeced!

[Jarqui]

74. I've never felt the DNC was corrupt until DWS's reign

I used to like her until I saw how she was running the DNC. Now, I can't wait for her to be gone. I hope the primary against her is successful

[bjobotts]

103. She throws DNC money to corporate dems to defeat progressive dems in primaries.

She backs the payday loan industry with legislation and has been a Clinton supporter using her chair position to support her candidacy. Her only supporters are Clinton supporters who seem to be able to rationalize anything as long as it favors their candidate.

[Jarqui]

110. I would never support Trump or a GOP candidate. Never. Been left all my life.

But I'm having a really hard time coming around to Hillary. Being reminded of how Hillary has also corrupted the DNC, allowed lobbyist money, etc doesn't help.

I've supported Democrats consistently since the 60s. This is the first time I've ever had a problem supporting their very likely candidate for President. I've never felt this way about a Dem candidate for President before => I can't stand her lying, flip-flops, dirty tricks, hobnobbing with the wealthy who basically own her candidacy, policy positions that flirt with being Republican, that I think she'll get into another war, etc. It goes against so many of my convictions that I'd feel very hypocritical.

I hardly post on this site any more. I don't feel like lying about it but I don't want to get in the way of those working for her. I've thrown up my hands in bewilderment as I don't want to turn my back on Democrats.

It's not a good feeling.

[nolabear]

5. I get all my political opinions from Mika.

[Dr Hobbitstein]

6. Republican calls for Democrat to resign,

reported in a RW rag. I'm sure it happened, but why link to The Daily Caller?

[Human101948]

50. Democrat calls on Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign!

As a lifelong Democrat, I call for her to begone.

[SammyWinstonJack]

116. As does this lifelong Democrat.

[pmorlan1]

7. While I agree

that Debbie should step down (won't happen..she will have to be removed) and that it's obvious she has favored Clinton through the entire campaign, I recognize that Mika has zero concern for Bernie and is only shilling for Trump.

[DLevine]

25. Spot on. nt

[WhiteTara]

8. Isn't she a republicon?

F Off Mika

[Land of Enchantment]

19. That was quite rude. Ever heard of Jimmy Carter?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Brzezinski

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (/ˈzbɪɡnjɛv brɛˈʒɪnski/ zbig-nyev breh-zhin-skee;[1] Polish: Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzeziński [ˈzbʲiɡɲɛf kaˈʑimʲɛʂ bʐɛˈʑiɲskʲi] About this sound Polish pronunciation (help·info); born March 28, 1928) is a Polish-American political scientist and geostrategist, who served as a counselor to President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966–68 and was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor from 1977–81. Brzezinski belongs to the realist school of international relations, standing in the geopolitical tradition of Halford Mackinder and Nicholas J. Spykman.[2][3]

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China (and the severing of ties with the Republic of China on Taiwan); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II); the brokering of the Camp David Accords; the transition of Iran from an important U.S. ally to an anti-Western Islamic Republic; encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union;[4] the arming of the mujahideen in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing U.S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

Brzezinski is currently Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils. He appears frequently as an expert on the PBS program The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, ABC News' This Week with Christiane Amanpour, and on MSNBC's Morning Joe, where his daughter, Mika Brzezinski, is co-anchor. In recent years, he has been a supporter of the Prague Process.[5] His son, Mark Brzezinski, was the United States Ambassador to Sweden from 2011 to 2015.

http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/mika-brzezinski-biography

Mika Brzezinski is the co-host of msnbc’s “Morning Joe” and the author of three best-selling books. Her memoir “All Things At Once” became a “New York Times” best seller in January 2010. Her second book “Knowing Your Value,” which examines the role of women in the workplace, reached #1 on The New York Times best sellers list for business books in spring 2011. Her most recent book “Obsessed: America’s Food Addiction and My Own” debuted on the best-sellers list in spring 2013. Brzezinski also writes “Getting What You Want” for Cosmopolitan, a monthly column about career confidence and empowerment.

Prior to joining msnbc in January 2007, Brzezinski was an anchor of the “CBS Evening News Weekend Edition” and a CBS News correspondent who frequently contributed to “CBS Sunday Morning” and “60 Minutes.” She reported live from Lower Manhattan for CBS News during the September 11, 2001 attacks.

A native of New York City, Brzezinski is the daughter of Foreign Policy Expert and Former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski. She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and a Williams College alum. Brzezinski lives in New York with her husband and two daughters.

You might want to enlighten yourself before insulting an accomplished, Democratic Woman.

[WhiteTara]

20. Brzenzinski got us into the mess in Afghanistan

his foreign policy expertise is questionable in my book. Mika is a democrat? I thought she was a clone of Dead Intern Joe.

[jzodda]

32. You can take her accomplishments and flush em down the toilet

She has been in the tank for Trump for months.

All credibility= GONE.

[Egnever]

34. ..

An accomplished democratic woman...

You must be watching someone else.

[UTUSN]

38. While I strongly supported President CARTER as I have and do Dems of all wings & stripes

My hopes for him dimmed into disappointment over a slow curve over his four years and ended in being dashed by his losing to RAYGUN.

As for Mika Mouse's father, he was just one of a passle of vipers in the CARTER nest: Pat CADDELL, RUBENSTEIN who went on to found the Carlyle Group, Tweety.

Also, after our long Dem/Lib history of separation of Church and State, firmly welded in place by JFK, it was President CARTER who broke that seal and carried his Bible around. I can date the rise of the Jesus Freak movement to 1968-9, when I was in our Navy dinghy being transported from our anchored-out ship to San Diego for Liberty ("r & r&quot , and it was a magnificently brilliant day, there we were on the surface of the deep blue water under a dome of brilliant blue sky, and there was this one shipmate, hunched over, alone, all of us in our CrackerJack uniforms, he PORING over his Bible. This was my first glimpse of a Jesus Freak. I was puzzled and then thought to myself as though talking to him, "Why don't you lift up your eyes to see what your God created instead of shutting it all out?!1"

It took a few years for the Jesus Freak movement to percolate until finally in 1977 there was a President and his Bible every damned Sunday.

I wasn't the only one later disappointed with CARTER. Cher, because us Great Minds Think Alike, has recounted how she and everybody were excited when he won and she was invited to some big bash and after he got through talking he had left everybody oddly puzzled and just with some vague big let-down.

So Mika Mouse is just the leftovers of the disappointment.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

53. Accomplished? Democratic?

Mika is a lightweight newsreader who stumbled ass-backward into a talk show gig ably propping up a blowhard GOP shill. Her books wouldn't have seen the light of day if it weren't for Morning Joe and helping boost sales of the books their guests are trying to sell.

[JDPriestly]

60. The ignorance among Hillary supporters is quite astonishing.

I think she may be the granddaughter of my political science professor, Benes, who was the brother of the former head of Czechoslovakia after WWII. I think her father married Benes's daughter.

[rhett o rick]

78. And DWS is a DINO. She is owned lock stock and barrel by the Oligarchy. You either support

the Oligarchy or the People and she doesnt support the People.

[Omaha Steve]

9. FIRE DWS! Donate to Democratic Underground for Tim Canova FL-23 here

We need just $6 to put Tim over $4,000 raised on Act Blue.

Donate here: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/du4timcanova

[Duval]

48. Will do, OS!

I've donated this week, but can scrap up a few more!

[RKP5637]

96. Will do! Thanks!!! n/t

[GeorgeGist]

10. So? Mika drew the short straw.

[Gomez163]

37. It was either that or a "heart attack" Lori Klausitis style.

[Buddyblazon]

11. Regardless of their politics, they're correct...

She's done a horrible job of keeping the sides together...and has actually done a terrific job at driving a wedge between the two factions of the party.

I own a business. If one of my managers split the workplace and made it this divided...soooo fired.

She's just awful at her job.

Actually...if Trump ends up in office, the blame can be laid squarely at her feet.

[LovingA2andMI]

24. #ThisIsTruth #VeryTruthful....

Actually...if Trump ends up in office, the blame can be laid squarely at her feet.

HER in this case being DWS.

[hollysmom]

54. well, it is not like DW_S has not supervised the most lost electoral offices in state and federal go

we don't even want to wander into judgeships do we? I haven't tracked them, but I know there have a been a lot of losses there.

[Divernan]

55. Re:the Democratic Party, Debbie is the Enemy Within

[JDPriestly]

62. Right. One of the jobs of management in this day is to promote harmony.

Debbie fails miserably at that. And she always has such a sourpuss look on her face on TV. That does not sell the Democratic Party. Always looks like a cat whose tail is being stepped on. Even her smiles look unhappy. Sorry to be pointing at someone's appearance because I know we can't help how we look. But, the spokesperson for a party should be able to make viewers feel upbeat and good when they see him/her or hear him/her.. Elections are won and lost on that quality in the spokesperson. There are a lot of uninformed, lazy voters out here.

Campaigning these weeks, I've been talking to a lot of them, and they are all for Hillary strangely enough.

[BuelahWitch]

79. Obama should have canned her ass after the '14 bloodbath

And appointed someone with some sense. He is partially responsible for this.

[DesMoinesDem]

12. 900+ state legislature seats, 12 governors, 69 House seats, 13 Senate seats lost

She is incompetent.

[HughBeaumont]

13. Anyone can see how bad Debbie Disasterman has been.

Even Mika Brzezinski.

Debbie Disasterman has been the greatest gift to the Republicans since Joe Lieberturd.

[jalan48]

14. Even the right wingers can see it, and Bernie's an OMG! -Socialist!

[leftofcool]

15. OMG! A Democrat favors a Democrat. Imagine that!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. IKR

Not to mention the fact that she can support whoever she wants to (I thought she could anyway. Are party heads NOT allowed to express a preference?). Shouldn't the fact that Bernie has done better than expected be viewed as some proof that the primary race has NOT been rigged against him? His supporters have basically gotten what they wanted: Hillary has NOT been "coronated" and had to fight for her votes/delegates and Bernie supporters got their candidate to push Hillary to the left and *may* even win some concessions at the DNC in July. True, they aren't going to get what they wanted in terms of Bernie winning the nomination in the end (the "math" just isn't there) but FFS they should be thankful that Bernie, who AFAIK has never been a registered Democrat, was allowed to register to run in this year's Democratic Primary.

[99th_Monkey]

35. "Are party heads NOT allowed to express a preference?" No, just ask Telsi Gabbard.

She served as a DNC executive but was FORCED to resign in order to openly
support Sen. Sanders. It's exactly this kind o two-faced double standard that
has been pissing so many people off, driving them AWAY from the Democratic
Party, because it's decidedly become very UN-democratic under DWS's tyrannical
rule.

[joeybee12]

45. That's her version of events...

Not one other person involved has supported her version...I don't believe her for a second.

[99th_Monkey]

63. You mean DWS has not "supported her version"

so everyone else at DNC has zipped their lips, lest they be forced to join Tulsi on the
way out the door.

Yet you chose to besmirch the word of a female decorated war veteran with impeccable
credentials, to buy-into DWS's pack of lies.

Thanks for showing you true colors.

[joeybee12]

72. You and others like you really need to get a grip.

A she said, she said event is hardly a fact...you hate DWS, fine, I'm not fan either, but baseless allegations like yours show your true colors...impeccable credentials to you is simply that she likes Bernie, it's a black-white world for you and that's ridiculous. In

[99th_Monkey]

77. We all know "the dirt" on DWS, i.e. her well-deserved lack of credibility

Even you admit you're "not a DWS fan".

So do you have "the dirt" on Gabbard?? i.e. examples of how she has compromised herself
and/or lacks credibility. Can you name even one thing?

[joeybee12]

82. Most of the dirt on DWS is made up here...

I have no idea who Gabbard nobody does, probably a publicity stunt on her part, not the first time an elected official had tried that...face it, you have no facts and can believe what you wnat, but don't exoect others to go along with it.

[99th_Monkey]

86. You can't back up your claims, so now you're just making shit up.

Typical Hillarian nonsense.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

46. I don't pretend to know the circumstances behind her dramatic resignation

Businesses and organizations (including party organizations) aren't necessarily "democratic" and there could have been other internal issues/matters that led to her resignation. Realistically, nobody but her and whoever she worked under will ever know for certain what happened. Any other discussion is pretty much "she said/she said".

[99th_Monkey]

73. Gabbard has been very clear and vocal about why she needed to resign

and it's exactly why I said. She was both setting an example in a way (of what DNC officials
SHOULD DO to openly support a candidate in a primary, while she's being made DWS's
example of the "Clinton/DWS's way, or the hi-way" style of mismanaging the DNC. Here's what
Tulsi herself has to say about her resignation and why she did it:

Here, at 1:38 on the video, DWS states that DNC officials must "be neural" during Primaries, while
not even trying to hold herself to that same standard. <-- as we've seen at every turn, from the
debate scheduling to how she's now stacking the convention committee assignments against
Bernie to favor Clinton

[Geronimoe]

29. 3rd way Dems favors 3rd way candidate

It seems Bernie is the real Democrat, that is for the 99% of voters. He is even funded by the 99%.

[Bucky]

44. Don't believe it. The Joe Show started sniping Clinton supporters to try to divide the party

Of course, it's not like Wasserman Schultz hasn't done her own share of being divisive.

[procon]

16. Would this be the same talk show host who is a Trump lapdog?

Why are you celebrating rightwing attacks on the leading Democratic candidate? If you've never watched Brzezinski softball, ass-kissing interviews while complimenting Trump and gushing over every word he says? Brzezinski is just a mouthpiece for the GOP, and her unwavering support for Trump includes this swipe against the Democratic Party.

Its a old politial game called divide and conquer. Sanders has created a well published spit within the party, and the Republicans would be fools not to maximize that rift by tossing out these juicy lollipops that appeal to the less sophisticated in our midst who just fell off the turnip truck.

You should delete this GOP message.

[apnu]

17. This is long over due.

If one thing Hillary and Bernie supporters around here agree upon, its DWS is toxic.

[JCMach1]

21. She should have been fired in 2014...

[lastone]

26. She has to go

Send Tim (her primary challenger) $$$ and get this loan shark pumping fool out of public "service" cause she ain't doing any serving of the public!

[TipTok]

27. DWS is banking on a Hillary win...

... to cement her position for a long time to come.

[99th_Monkey]

28. Spot on!! Tulsi Gabbard HAD to resign to openly support Sanders. Is only fair.

Not that DNC has been noted for "fairness" lately under her "leadership" so-called.

If the Democratic Party is serious about wanting to win in November, it would be
very smart to force her resignation NOW. That way the party could begin to act in
a more equitable manner to both candidates, thereby increasing the likelihood of
retaining more Sanders supporters' votes if Hillary's the nominee.

[BlueStateLib]

94. Tulsi Gabbard trashes clinton every chance she gets, when has DWS trashed sanders

[99th_Monkey]

99. Telling the truth about Hillary's consistently hawkish ways is not "trashing" her

it's setting the record straight about Hillary on foreign policy, by a woman
who really was "under sniper fire" in Iraq, for two deployments.

[merrily]

30. Schultz should resign. She should have resigned after the midterms. But she won't.

[stonecutter357]

31. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is doing more for the DNC than BS ever will.

Mika Brzezinski aka RWNJ..

[Ned Flanders]

52. DWS is doing more for the Republicans than for the Dems

Her actions have splintered the Democratic party, alienating a large portion to the point where there is a very real possibility they will not vote (D). DWS has done far more damage to the Democratic party with her slimy tricks and overt support of Hillary, and yet Bernie is getting blamed for being angry and calling her out? Imagine how things would be at this point if she had been truly neutral with regards to Bernie vs. Hillary.... I, for one, would have accepted a HRC candidacy if she had just played fair. But now?

[BuelahWitch]

81. Yep, I know longtime Democrats who have changed their affiliation to Independent.

They are sick of DWS and her shenanigans.

[6000eliot]

100. You know that these are the exact same arguments that the rightwingers have been using against

President Obama for the last seven years.

[dchill]

33. K&R.

[bucolic_frolic]

36. She'll only side with Democrats

if it undermines the party apparatus

not unexpected

[Vinca]

39. I couldn't agree more.

[nvme]

40. She is a DINO

She initially was a shill for Hillary and refused to support Obama until way late in the primaries(like 20 minutes before the convention). Under her tutelage we have lost more Democratic seats than I care to mention. Give her das boot.

[felix_numinous]

41. Good.

This debacle needs to be stopped in it's tracks.

[stopbush]

42. It must be difficult for DWS - dealing with a DINO running for the D nomination

who has overstayed his welcome by a month, whose followers are turning violent and who seems hell bent on hurting the D Party for as long and as deeply as he can.

[FighttheFuture]

56. Poor little Debbie.... snif, snif.... can't spend all her time milking the payday lenders for her

benefit while screwing the people of her district and this country.

Thank GOD for Bernie Sanders peeling the lid and exposing these "democratic" cockroaches to the light of day!!

[Divernan]

59. Not one scrap of proof of any violence at Nevada meeting.

People in attendance were video-taping and taking photos left, right and sideways of the entire meeting and there is not a single, solitary piece of evidence of any chairs being thrown. Instead we see photos of a lineup of brown-shirted police lined up in front of the podium, with no delegated within 10 feet of them.

As Cenk observed, you KNOW that if the Clinton faction had ANY evidence, it would have been spread far and wide.

[Jitter65]

43. Oh, it's just Mika. We know where the gang on Morning Joe stands.

I thought it was her dad.

[Vote2016]

47. kick & rec #75

[NurseJackie]

49. Well then, that settles it, doesn't it? If Mika is saying that, then it's GAME OVER for Debbie! :-P

[Duval]

51. K&R! nt

[puffy socks]

57. We care what Mika

thinks because?

[Loki]

64. Mika has to ask Joe's permission to talk.

Another woman who can't speak for herself and needs a man to tell her what to think and say. No thanks Mika.

[Adrahil]

66. Now, I'm not DWS fan, but Mika is a Joe Scar Bootlicker.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

67. Funny how Hillary supporters defend Debbie despite her track record.

[NewImproved Deal]

68. Thanks!

This reptile has been in the bag for Imelda from day one...

[Rafale]

69. This story is truly disturbing

https://pivotamerica.com/rip-democracy-nevada-strikes-killing-blow/

[runaway hero]

70. So why should DWS keep her job?

She and Pelosi lost the house in 2010, got crushed 2 years ago and most of the states have r legislature and r governors. She has done a bad job. I'm not even going to touch Nevadagate.

[d_legendary1]

87. Pelosi managed to pass four jobs bills out of the House

that met their demise in the Senate thanks to Republicans and Blue Dog Dems. Though she helped Mark Foley against the FBI she has done some good when the Dems had the house.

[runaway hero]

89. Fair points

But the first female speaker was only that for 4 years. Obama has had nothing to work with most of his presidency. It's a shame. DWS should be trying to flip some house seats right now.

[d_legendary1]

91. That's DWS's job

To make sure Pelosi's tenure continued as the house whip, but instead she sided with Republicans and gave them the House. For all those colossal failures DWS has gotta go. I'll be voting for Tim Canova when my ballot arrives!

[runaway hero]

97. For sure.

Hopefully Dean comes back so we can win in more than just the coasts.

[TwilightZone]

75. So, first, we wanted Trump supporters to select our candidate for us.

Now, we want Trump supporters to make our party decisions for us, too?

No, thanks.

[Wibly]

83. Just because

Brezinski is a Repub shill doesn't mean the Democrats shouldn't come up with some very good and valid reason why DWS should not resign.
Clearly, the dissatisfaction with DWS is shared by many Democrats. It is also very clear whose side she is on, which is not a good thing for someone who is supposed to be overseeing a fair race for the Dem nomination.
Ignoring the message because of who the messenger is associated with, or shooting the messenger because you don't like the message, is the purview of Republicans, not responsible Democrats.
The Democratic Party needs to have a serious discussion about the leadership of DWS. Putting Brezinski down does nothing to change that fact.

[DarkScholar82]

84. You Know Someone's An Embarrassment to the Party

when even the folks at the Daily Kos want her out for being a corporate Democrat.

[yuiyoshida]

85. The thing is she won't resign...

and I am thinking everyone knows that.

[d_legendary1]

90. That's why we're kicking her out

When my ballot get here I'll be voting for Tim Canova!

[yuiyoshida]

92. But in the mean time, she will have control over the

convention in Philly right? Here is my prediction, she will find some way to prevent Bernie Sanders and his followers from being at the Convention. She will lock them out, with Security if necessary. This will not go over well!! We may see stuff, never seen before in Convention history.

[d_legendary1]

109. It'll be the last time the Dems ever gain power in this country

Let'em try. We are the foot soldiers who go door to door, promote candidates, and our collective money is just as great as the 1%'s. We can take our country back! Though I hope we never reach this point as John F. Kennedy once said, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Sanders gave us the floor plan. Its up to us to carry it out in our favor. If I can't get Sanders to be POTUS I can at least attempt to get DWS kicked out of her position as DNC chair.

[zentrum]

93. Even MSNBC can discern

….what's going on. Yet, when we protest, the attacks by Hillary supporters are really unpleasant and entitled and worse.

This has been brewing in the party since 1968, then calmed, then arose briefly in the 90's when the Clinton-Gores set up the DLC. This is not an issue that begins with Bernie. This is happening because the Democratic party left its FDR sensibilities decades ago.

The "civil war" that's been there, is finally starting to be noticed by the media.

Wish we had Warren-OMalley and that Hillary had accepted that her time had come and gone in 2008.

[runaway hero]

98. She sucks.

I remember when most of this board was against her. When Hillary is president and there is still a repub house you will see why she should go.

[BlueMTexpat]

101. After you, Mika. eom

[EndElectoral]

102. Better late than never. My guess though is DWS gets a cabinet position if HRC wins.

[Zen Democrat]

108. The thought of that makes me less likely to vote this year.

Wasserman-Schmidt has been a complete and total failure as DNC Chair.

[Zen Democrat]

105. DWS is an embarrassment to the Democratic Party. She should have been gone after the 2014 elections.

She's a supporter of payday lenders and, as such, is anti-Democratic Party. She's much closer to the right than the left. I haven't given a dime to the DNC since 2014 and will continue to hold the purse-strings until she's gone.

People don't like her. Period.

[PufPuf23]

107. I call on DWS to resign also. What a failure. eom

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[MADem]

111. The Daily Caller??? EWWWW. We love hearing from TUCKER CARLSON @ DU.....

Who gives a shit what she has to say. She and her hair-replacement partner have sucked down the Trump kool-aid. Why are you bringing their trash here? Shame on you.


Here, some light reading to get you up to speed--should we throw Matt Taibbi under the bus as well:

[font color="red" size="20" face="face"]
Morning Blow: How Joe and Mika Became Trump's Lapdogs

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski should be herded into a rocket and shot into space for their brown-nosing of Trump[/font]



Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/morning-blow-how-joe-and-mika-became-trumps-lapdogs-20160223#ixzz492NE2b25

[RKP5637]

131. "hair-replacement partner" Absolutely!!! We watch it move around differently each show.

[Shankapotomus]

114. I want Sander's to be the nominee

(And I could be wrong about this) but my take is if Sander's wanted to be treated like any other Democrat, he should have been one all these years. I think Sander's supporters forget he was not always a Democrat and that may explain why many Democrats like Wasserman are not showing him the impartiality his supporters are expecting.

Before the tomatoes start to fly, let me get my shield. Okay, go ahead.

[Skittles]

117. who gives a fuck what MIKA thinks

[RKP5637]

118. My first thought too when I heard of this. n/t

[Skittles]

119. almost 200 recs

pathetic

[RKP5637]

120. I've been amazed. I just posted it as an fyi. n/t

[Skittles]

121. it is sad

all the sudden MIKA is their spokesgal? That is DEMENTED.

[Monk06]

122. Now now Mika, keep talkin like that and Russell Brand is going to offer to have sex with you again

For the cause of truth and fairness of course

[ViseGrip]

123. But Hillary supporters here say DWS and party have been fair? LOL!

[Moonwalk]

125. Um, several posts here from Hillary supporters say "I'm no fan of..."

They don't seem to be "fans" of the committee or Debbie. What they seem to be arguing, and you seem to be determined to miss is that the messenger here isn't asking for Debbie's resignation in order to make the Democratic committee better—it's doing it to widen the rift between Sanders folk and Hillary folk.

If you want to argue that DWS should be tossed out, then present arguments from democrats on how this would improve the party, not arguments from Trump supporters who are angling to get him elected. THAT is what I'm reading Hillary supporters in this thread as saying. But I'm guessing you're seeing what you want to see (they're fans of Debbie no matter what) and missing anything that indicates that they are in agreement WITH YOU that the DNC needs to change. They might or might not support Debbie's resignation as part of that change, but their argument in this particular thread seems to be that if you're going to argue for it, present arguments from those within the party wanting to make the party better, not without and aiming to damage it.

It's not that those aiming to damage it couldn't be telling the truth—but they really shouldn't be trusted as their goal isn't in any democrat's best interest.

[pressbox69]

124. This just in...

Lori Klausutis is calling for Mika to resign.

[TheDebbieDee]

126. Forget Mika! What I want to know is:

How many of the remaining trouble-making, boisterous Bernie Sanders supporters are legitimate and how many are conservative activists being paid to continue their fake support of Bernie, convincing him to stay in the race!

[Mike Nelson]

127. I call upon...

...Mika to resign! ...really, Mika is now calling for people to resign? ...really? lol... well, Joe and Mika, your scheme will fail - your taxes are going UP!

[RKP5637]

129. Yep, I wish both Joe and Mika would resign!

[Mike Nelson]

130. The should have hired...

...Stephanie Miller and Ron Reagan for that time slot.

[RKP5637]

132. That, would have been great! What we get now is Fox-Lite controlled by Comcast. n/t

[LiberalFighter]

128. Mika doesn't have a say about this.

[Omaha Steve]

133. Locking after a review by forum hosts

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