Debbie Wasserman Schultz considering 2016 Senate bid

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82. Does Charlie Pierce have something to say about this? Why yes, he certainly does!

"...But not even the prospect of Rubio's abandoning a safe Senate seat in favor of a quixotic presidential run can get me excited about Debbie Wasserman Schultz running for anything except the far horizon.

For the life of me, I don't see any substantive accomplishment she has achieved as chair of the Democratic National Committee. In fact, there was a time when she actively campaigned against Democratic candidates back home. And on behalf of some fairly dodgy characters.

As one of the leaders of her party, in 2010, she helped preside over an electoral disaster. That debacle got her promoted. In 2014, as chairman of the entire DNC, she presided over a positive cataclysm.

The problem is that, if she runs, she sucks up an awful lot of money from an awful lot of people who ought not to have fk-all to do with a Democratic party that seeks to rebrand itself back to its populist roots. That puts other possible candidates -- like Congressman Patrick Murphy -- behind at the start. However, there is one scenario within which I wouldn't mind if she ran for the Senate, and that's if the DNC brought back Howard Dean as its chairman. Then, he could endorse Pat Murphy and all would be well."

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a33184/things-in-politico-that-make-me-want-to-guzzle-antifreeze-part-the-infinity/