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Debbie’s Very Bad Day in Iowa

Posted on | August 22, 2011 | 44 Comments

During my Iowa trip, I got lots of photos and videos I wasn’t able to upload at the time due to connectivity issues and the very hectic schedule. One of the items that never made it to the blog was an incident at the Iowa State Fair where DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz got heckled offstage by an angry liberal. I was able to phone in a report to The American Spectator, but never got around to uploading video of the incident.

The video is about two minutes, and at about the 40-second mark, you see Wasserman-Schultz say, “The difference between Barack Obama and congressional Democrats and all the Republican presidential candidates is that all of them committed to end Medicare as we know it . . . and privatize Social Security.” This elicits a predictable chorus of boos from her Democratic audience, but it also inspired the angry liberal heckler – you’ll see him in a yellow T-shirt — to start yelling that the debt deal “put Medicare on the chopping block!” He also yells: “Stop caving in to Wall Street!” Watch:

As you see, at the 1:15 mark, Democrat loyalists try to shout down the heckler by chanting, “Debbie! Debbie!” But at the 1:30 mark, Yellow Shirt starts heckling again, which prompts Wasserman-Schultz to cut straight to her peroration – something about the great “victory” that awaits in 2012 – and end her speech well before her allotted 15 minutes were up.

Following her offstage in hope that she would hold a brief press conference, I then caught the denouement as other angry liberals – the first one wearing a “Catholic Worker” T-shirt – interrogated her about the same basic issue. Wasserman-Schultz evidently knew this guy, addressing him as “David.”

The exchange was interrupted periodically by the congresswoman’s entourage, but as much as was audible went like this:

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ:  “As someone who represents a district in South Florida, there’s nobody who fights harder to protect Medicare . . .”

FIRST LIBERAL: “You voted for the debt-ceiling bill . . . . Why don’t you have five minutes to sit down and talk?”

ENTOURAGE WOMAN:  “Because, David, it’s not built in. Don’t act like this is — you know how . . .”

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ:  “I’m happy to talk to you . . .”

FIRST LIBERAL: “You talk the talk, but your actions don’t back up the talk.”

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ:  “Oh, you know, with all due respect . . .”

FIRST LIBERAL: “Obama was the one that put cuts to Social Security and Medicare on the table.”

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ:  “That is simply not true and you know it and that is an unacceptable …”

SECOND LIBERAL: “He said everything was on the table.”

FIRST LIBERAL: “And you voted for the debt-ceiling bill, Debbie – you voted for that bill.”

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ:  “Because we needed to come together to address our deficit …”

SECOND LIBERAL: “Why is it always Democrats compromising with other Democrats?”

WASSERMAN-SCHULTZ: “Call me, David. We’ll talk later.”

It was a very enlightening glimpse at how a powerful Democrat – herself a leader of “progressives” in Congress – cannot satisfy the implacable demands of her own party’s left-wingers. Just something to keep in mind, next time someone tries to tell you that Republicans are the party beholden to fringe extremist wingnuts.

UPDATE: Welcome, Instapundit readers!

And Ed Driscoll readers, too! (I’m sure the Trotsky reference was a just a coincidence, comrade.)

UPDATE II: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz’s Left-Wing Iowa Antagonist ID’d as David Goodner.


Category: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Democrats, Fear and Loathing in Iowa, Liberals

Comments

44 Responses to “Debbie’s Very Bad Day in Iowa”

  1. Russ Emerson
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 2:40 am

    “All due respect” to DWS would, I suspect, involve a hefty wad of phlegm.

  2. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 2:40 am

    Between Wasserman-Schultz, Biden and Maxine Waters are we now Tea Party Freedom Fighting Hellhounds?

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  4. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 2:51 am

    Y’know, I just realized I missed a much better idea for a title: “Debbie Does Des Moines.”

    Always 15 minutes too late with the genius ideas …

  5. Brendon Carr
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 2:53 am

    I would have thought the abhorrent Debbie Wasserman-Schultz makes for an awful spokesperson for the Democratic Party, but never in a million years would I have imagined the reason was she isn’t lunatic-left enough.

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  7. Anamika
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 3:13 am

    RSM, we get the feeling that you are not only slow but also dense…

    It was a very enlightening glimpse at how a powerful Democrat – herself a
    leader of “progressives” in Congress – cannot satisfy the implacable
    demands of her own party’s left-wingers. Just something to keep in mind,
    next time someone tries to tell you that Republicans are the party beholden to fringe extremist wingnuts.

    A party that is beholden to it’s fringe actually placates their extremist views, unlike the dems (as your example shows) and like the present republicans.

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  9. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 3:22 am

    What a GUTLESS Socialist!

  10. Pat
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 3:37 am

    I’m getting the idea that Democrats don’t understand Ponzi schemes; they call them safety nets and social justice and economic stimuli. Ignorance is curable but leftist stupidity is forever. 

  11. Jeff McCabe
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 3:39 am

    Which extremist view do you refer? That spending money you don’t have isn’t sustainable?  That  the Constitution should mean something?  That raising taxes ALWAYS results in additional spending, not deficit reduction?  This is extremist to you.  That says a lot. 

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  13. Jake
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 4:05 am

    Don’t forget Dick Durbin…Here come the Roughriders!

  14. JeffS
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 4:21 am

    Tsk tsk, Anamika, tsk tsk!

    “Call me, David.  We’ll talk later” is an attempt to satisfy the fringe element, not brush them off.  Unless you think Wasserman-Schultz is just brushing off a nutcase…..who she knows well enough to remember his first name.  And he has her number.

    Projection is most unbecoming of anyone, but especially a sincere leftie such as yourself. 

    Tsk tsk, Anamika, tsk tsk!

  15. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 4:24 am

    Dungbat.

  16. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 4:29 am

    She seems to have lost some mojo with Weiner’s exit, now we know who had the brains in the Dingbat duo.

  17. Anamika
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 4:35 am

    Yeah, she is trying to “placate” the extremists with mere soothing words (and they ain’t working) unlike the republicans who are  placating their own with actual deeds; iow, when the fringe is happy there is no actual need to “placate” them.  The fringe has won when they become “mainstream”. The victory is almost complete on the right, no way near on the left as the current example clearly illustrates.

  18. Anamika
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 4:36 am

    Nutbag

  19. Lou Ann Watson
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 4:56 am

    next thing you know she’ll be sending pictures of her penis to all of her twitter followers

  20. Adjoran
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 5:30 am

    I think you mean, “…the brain …” as in singular.

  21. Adjoran
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 5:42 am

    No sane person with a nodding acquaintance with math – they don’t have to be good at it, just know enough to acknowledge it exists – can believe Medicare can survive without a drastic restructuring. 

    Social Security might be saved in something close to its present form by increasing retirement ages, cutting supplemental payments, means testing, and a bout of inflation every 20 years (after revising the CPI formula).  Gradual privatizing would still be better for everybody, but that is probably a lost opportunity after market volatility in recent years.

    At some point the Baby Boomers do start dying off, so if the system can be rigged to make it that far . . . but not Medicare.  Costs are out of control and the system is already underwater.  Medicaid must feel the knife too, but that will probably be postponed until after a real recovery is well under way to minimize the effect.

    These are serious issues, and somehow I just can’t see Debbie offering any productive input on a serious issue. 

    Heck, I wouldn’t even trust her judgment on hair and make-up.

  22. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 6:39 am

    Thanks for the endorsement

  23. Rose
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 6:51 am

    Anamika – WHEN did it become ‘fringe’ – when did it become ‘right wing’ – when did it become ‘evil/extremist/something to be derided’ to believe that our elected officials would  be fiscally responsible? To keep spending under control?

    Or, to put it another way – when did it become OK to spend $150 for every $100 you take in?

    You may not realize it, but you are actually smearing Democrats.

    Why do you think that people have no right to expect good management from the people they send to Washington?

    Your way of thinking is bankrupting California, it is bankrupting this entire nation. I don’t know how you sleep at night.

    Perry is right – you people are treasonous.

  24. Buddy Larsen
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 6:57 am

    Nice point, but the apostrophe takes away from it some.

  25. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 7:21 am

    A party that is beholden to it’s fringe actually placates their extremist views, unlike the dems (as your example shows) and like the present republicans.

    Well, that would certainly explain why the Tea Party Reps all lined up and voted for the debt ceiling deal, wouldn’t it?

    Oh. Wait.

  26. Brendon Carr
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 7:50 am

    Your figures are wrong: The Federal Government spends $173 for every $100 taken in. Irresponsible, sure, but what fun!

  27. mark
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 9:30 am

    and were i on the jury, you would be home free…

    sadly, i can only do my ‘patriotic duty ‘ if they charge you with a felony.

    liberals are wusses.  if they really had any fear or concern over he tea party, they wouldn’t come out in public.

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  29. Bob Belvedere
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 11:20 am

    You repeat yourself.

  30. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 11:33 am

    The politicians don’t care. Their golden parachutes are packed and their pockets lined. Their perks are protected and they need not mingle too much with the riffraff if they don’t want to. It is all play money to them and play days for them. The rest of us are just the mules that pull the cart.

  31. Frosty
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 12:22 pm

    Everyone knows that Democrats will say whatever to get elected.  Liberals have always known this.  Don’t worry about what O says during election, he is one of us and will do what is “right” when in office.

  32. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 3:22 pm

    Your argument is flawed as it presumes that ‘far left extremists’ are socio-politically equivalent to ‘far right extremists’.

    The ‘far right extremists’ advocate smaller government that adheres strictly to the Constitution and founding principles such that the people once again have levels of individual liberty and freedom the nation was founded upon at the cost of what some see as the ‘good’ that can be accomplished by big government.

    The ‘far left extremists’ advocate much larger, much more controlling government that manages, owns and/or regulates more or even most of the people’s economic activities and redirects/redistributes the earnings from those activities at the cost of less individual freedom and liberty for the average American. The Left generally want the government to be society’s ultimate source and decider of a person’s socio-economic rights (both as an individual and assembled with others as a business) to ensure equality of outcomes for politically-defined groups deemed ‘correct’ and/or ‘preferred’ at the cost of groups of people who are deemed politically incorrect or less deserving of government largesse and favors.

    If one truly believes in the values that formed the foundation of this nation, then paying attention to the founders wisdom would then be mandatory:

    Thomas Jefferson said: “The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.”;  and: “Most bad government has grown out of too much government.”

    A nation that is based on individual freedom and liberty is not ever going to be a collectivst’s idea of secular-heaven on earth – unless, by choice and/or deception, it devolves into tryanny of the soft or hard variety.

  33. DaveO
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 5:22 pm

    Think we got the name wrong. It’s clearly not “David,” it is “RUBE.” Too bad he has nowhere else to contribute his dollars and time getting out the vote. Or is he just pissed because he didn’t get his cut of the porkulus money? He can still apply under Pigford.

  34. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 5:36 pm

    ;^)

  35. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 5:38 pm

    There’s little difference between her and Alan Grayson.

    http://tinyurl.com/3apjz8g

  36. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 5:44 pm

    Oh, the weiner wars that go on between her and Hillary!

  37. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 5:45 pm

    BTW,  I so pity her children. 

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  39. Anonymous
    August 23rd, 2011 @ 6:36 pm

    I think you forgot some quotation marks there, bubba.

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  41. Anonymous
    August 24th, 2011 @ 12:33 am

    I’m not sure the Democrats really understand the Obama school of negotiation.  He’s really put nothing ON the table.  Sure, he’s said some things; but they aren’t in writing and they certainly have beaucoup conditions.  I wouldn’t trust anything, at this point in time. 

    I just hope the Republicans are falling for this.

    Vote Republican and only be called a racist one more time.

  42. Anonymous
    August 24th, 2011 @ 2:52 am

     Except she’s much better looking, IMHO.  Of course, like most of us I learned a long time ago that great packaging doesn’t make up for lousy contents.  But at least she looks good saying it.  Wait, didn’t that also apply to someone else recently?

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