{"id":182052,"date":"2016-01-07T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/07\/what-a-complete-prat\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T01:46:00","slug":"what-a-complete-prat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/01\/07\/what-a-complete-prat\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Complete Prat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the head of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schults, is casting about for the a scapegoat to excuse her lack of success.<\/p>\n<p>Her latest choice is to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/10\/magazine\/debbie-wasserman-schultz-thinks-young-women-are-complacent.html\">blame those millennial and generation X women for being too &#8220;complacent&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>Q:<\/b> Do you notice a difference between young women and women our age in their excitement about Hillary Clinton? Is there a generational divide? <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><b>DWS:<\/b> Here\u2019s what I see: a complacency among the generation of young women whose entire lives have been lived after Roe v. Wade was decided.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, she has pissed a lot of activists who the Democrats are going to need this November.<\/p>\n<p>I would also note that in this same interview, she doubled down on opposing medical marijuana, and repeated the canard that it is a gateway drug, while denying the actual role of pharmaceutical opiates, further demonstrating her complete cluelessness on the issues.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, We&#8217;ve also had repeated calls for her to be fired. (See <a href=\"http:\/\/act.rootsaction.org\/p\/dia\/action3\/common\/public\/?action_KEY=11885\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/act.credoaction.com\/sign\/DWS_Resign_2\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/sign\/remove-debbie-wasserman\">here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Given her history, particularly when she <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/disgraceful.html\">refused to support Democratic candidates when they were opposing Cuban American Republicans<\/a>, and was at best<a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2012\/05\/finally-national-dems-do-something-in.html\"> tepid at supporting the Walker recall in Wisconsin<\/a>, I&#8217;m not sure why she ended up in charge of the DCCC.<\/p>\n<p>She is and remains a useless careerist who leaves a trail of carnage wherever she goes.<\/p>\n<p>She shouldn&#8217;t be dog catcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that the head of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schults, is casting about for the a scapegoat to excuse her lack of success. Her latest choice is to blame those millennial and generation X women for being too &#8220;complacent&#8221;: Q: Do you notice a difference between young women and women our age &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[978,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}