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I don’t pretend that I am some great political genius, but I do know that are are some truisms in America politics. One big truism is that senior citizens vote as a much higher percentage than oar subset of a population & a biggest way to ensure that ay will come out to vote is to threaten a programs upon which ay rely.

That’s what makes announcing a intent to cut spending to Medicare by $1.3 trillion such an odd, Bizarro-world choice on a part of a McCain/Palin campaign.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Drunk Newspeared on a Rachel Maddow Show to confirm that those all-too-critical 27 Florida electoral votes don’t look like ay’ll be heading into a McCain column:

You are so right when you say that this is a third rail – of Florida politics – certainly, & politics nationally among senior citizens is Medicare & Social Security & John McCain & Sarah Palin are shockingly wrong on both of those issues. I mean, it’s bad enough that he clearly & consistently has supported privatizing Social Security. Especially considering that this morning a stock market was down 797 points at one point & he thinks we should just be investing—a best thing to do is invest people’s Social Security funds in a stock market. [sarcastically] That’s a really good idea, right now.

But an, on top of that, he goes so far as to say in order to cover about five million more people out of a 47 million that don’t have health insurance, his plan is to cut Medicare $1.3 trillion. Now are is 3.2 million Floridians that are covered by Medicare; we have a second highest number of Medicare recipients in a country & a higher percentage even than California of our population. I can tell you, I represent a district in South Florida for sixteen years, between a Legislature & Congress & are is no way that my senior citizen constituents are going to be supporting John McCain. ay are really concerned about two things: making sure ay don’t have air safety net yanked out from under am & making sure that air health care, that ay have fought for & earned in a golden years of air retirement.

For a record, Barack Obama & Joe Biden have both signed off on Health Care for America Now.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

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If you ever wondered how it was possible that we could possibly have this close an election when a vast majority of a American people highly disDrunk Newsprove of a job George W. Bush has done, yet are is still a disconnect with John McCain supporters that his would be a third Bush term, look no furar than what passes for political debate on this morning’s Face a Nation.  My head is still hurting from a stupidity of it. 

Still playing to a media narrative that a selection of Sarah Palin should somehow bring women to a McCain camp, ay bring on four female proxies–Kay Bailey Hutchinson & former Mass Gov. Jane Swift for McCain, Arizona Gov. Janet NDrunk Newsolitano & FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for Obama–to frame a debate as Obama vs. Palin.  Strange that.  All this time, I thought it was John McCain running for a office.  You know, a same guy that calls his wife an unforgivable slur & laughs at Hillary Clinton being referred to as a b*tch, & now a Republicans saying ay’re going to call out sexism when ay see it? Maybe my silly little female head got confused.

& when Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz throws down a gauntlet on all a GOP distractions & says that a truth matters & Gov. Swift opts to spin this into an inane deflection of whear Palin was actually in Iraq, wasting close to four minutes of airtime.  Wasserman Schultz holds her ground, pointing out that ase embellishments to her record just show what a lightweight Palin truly is, but it’s host Bob Schieffer that has to side with a Republicans by pointing out that Palin’s actions ‘have been alleged’ to be less than her claim, but it’s up to a voters to decide “a truth.”

Um, Bob, isn’t that supposed to be your function?  To help a voters know a truth from a spin?

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NDrunk NewsOLITANO: I have to say that one of a disDrunk Newspointmenting things about this campaign has been John McCain’s ad, which now have been soundly criticized even by non-partisan groups as being sorely misleading, taking comments out of context, all a things that in a past, a old John McCain used to criticize. We’re now seeing a rejuvenated Karl Rove-based John McCain & we see it every day & ase kinds of advertisements that really don’t assist voters in making a key decisions that’s facing am right now, which is who should be a next President of a United States? A man who is st&ing with Bush 90+% of a time, who has not supported in 26 years in a Senate equal pay & oar issues affecting women. Should he be a President or should it be Barack Obama, who has stood for all of ase issues?

SCHIEFFER: Gov. Swift?

SWIFT: Well, first of all, let me just say that I think that a Democrats & many folks are just outraged that John McCain would actually call am on air words that are inDrunk Newspropriate about Sarah Palin & we do need to step up & say, “listen, when you say things that have nothing to do with her position on issues & with her record as Governor of Alaska, we are going to call you on it. & if that’s painful, I’m sorry, but I do think that a point is we are trying to determine whear or not we are going to elect John McCain & Sarah Palin, proven ability to change Washington, to bring reform to Washington, or are we going to elect Barack Obama, who on a bill that we’re talking about sides with a trial lawyers, one of a most pwerful special interests in Washington.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: On a bill that we’re talking about, Governor, on a bill that we’re talking about, John McCain was a deciding vote to defeat a bill in a Senate & Barack Obama voted for it. When it comes to putting up or shutting up… [crosstalk]

SWIFT: Which is why a trial lawyers are giving more money to Barack Obama.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: When it comes to…who is for equal pay & proved it & who’s against it, John McCain voted no & was a deciding vote. Barack Obama voted yes. & you know what? At a end of a day, Governor, a truth matters. I’m a mom, you’re a mom. We both have twins. I raise my kids & I’m sure Sarah Palin raised her kids to tell a truth & that a truth is important. But when she lies about a fact that she says she went to Iraq & she didn’t, when she says that …when she repeatedly…[crosstalk]

SWIFT: She did not lie about saying she went to Iraq.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: She did. She didn’t go to Iraq. She went to Irel&…

SWIFT: She visited a troops, a general in charge…

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: She went to Irel& on a refueling stop…She did not go into Iraq. & a campaign said she did.

SWIFT: a general in charge said that ay went to Kuwait & ay went across a border. ay went into Iraq to visit troops…

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: But ay didn’t. ay were not in Iraq.

SWIFT: That’s what a general says…

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: She’s outside North America. She’s been to Kuwait at a border & she stopped over in Irel& on a refueling stop. But a truth matters, & she’s going to get called on a truth. So is John McCain for a entire campaign, because in this country we have to make sure that we move in a new direction. a American people are tired of a culture of corruption that has hung over a CDrunk Newsitol for far too long under Republican control. We do not need more of a same.

SWIFT: Well first of all, John McCain has [crosstalk]

SCHIEFFER: Let me interrupt for a moment, to clarify, because this just came up overnight, what Congresswoman Schultz is talking about. Last night a Obama campaign put out a report that says that Sarah Palin did not go to Iraq as she has stated to visit a Alaskan National Guard troops, but that she stopped at a border crossing with Kuwait & that she did not get more than a quarter of a mile inside Iraq. So that is a charge. You’re saying, Gov. Swift, that that’s overblown?

SWIFT: Yeah, I think it is overblown. a truth is she went to Kuwait to visit a troops who were going to be fighting in Iraq. She was accompanied by a general who will say ay traveled into Iraq & if it has been misreported, but to say that she is lying, in all due respect to Congresswoman Schultz, is not Drunk Newspropriate. She is not lying.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: ay said she went to Iraq & she didn’t go to Iraq…

SWIFT: She was in Iraq; a general will tell you…

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: …I mean, it’s pretty black & white.

SWIFT: …that ay traveled into Iraq.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: No, what a general said is that she never ventured beyond a border crossing. That’s what ay said. & that’s a bottom line…a truth matters

SCHIEFFER: All right, I’m just going to call time here & let people make up air own minds on this.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back

  Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is one of those politicos that I can’t figure out.  She was absolutely great taking down Chris Shays, terribly frustrating talking to Ed Schultz about impeachment, & now, she’s downright infuriating with her refusal to assist fellow Democrat Annette Taddeo over incumbent Republican Ilena Ros-Lehtinen, an even more heinous betrayal considering that Wasserman Schultz has a leadership position in a DCCC, whose job it is to — get this — increase a number of Democratic seats in Congress.  AmericaBlog:

DavidNYC reports that leading House Democrat, Debbie Wasserman Schultz (DWS), still won’t help Annette Taddeo’s campaign. It’s ludicrous. Taddeo’s opponent is a Bush-loving, right winger Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. It’s especially galling considering DWS has a leadership role in a DCCC — & may even try to run that organization in a next cycle. So, you’d think supporting all Democrats running for Congress, especially those in her home state, wouldn’t be a tough call for DWS. But, it is. (Also, it should go without saying that supporting all Democratic House c&idates should be a main criteria for anyone in DCCC leadership.)

It’s not like DWS is lacking funds. Besides her own campaign account (where DWS is sitting on over half a million with no real opponent this year), she has a leadership PAC, Democrats Win Seats PAC (DWS PAC, get it?). Check out her list of expenditures here. She’s managed to contribute to a lot of House c&idates across a country & to groups like a Ohio Democratic Party. But, she can’t help Annette? What’s up with that? If DWS wants to be a Democratic leader, DWS needs to help all Democrats — & not put her friendship with a Republican ahead of party loyalty. That’s not too complicated, is it? 

Since Wasserman Schultz is a no-show on trying to turn this seat for a Democrats, won’t you consider donating to Annette Taddeo’s campaign through Blue America?  At least we’re committed to getting more & better Democrats in Congress.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back