Chairman of the DNC is the MOST THANKLESS job in the party.

[MohRokTah]

You take shit, you work long hours, you get no credit and take all the blame.

And you don't get paid one red cent for all that shit.

IT takes a lot of guts and party loyalty to even begin to do the job.

Thank you for your service, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. I am certain the next president of the United States will not forget your loyalty to the party as a whole when the time comes for appointments.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Yeah - maybe

Chief of Staff? Her career ain't over. It's beyond the realm of reason that she would be in line for that position.

Republican heads will explode - and that's a good thing.

[notadmblnd]

9. Right, there's a payday loan office somewhere with an open teller window

all they got to do is make up a DWS name plate and she's good to go.

[JustAnotherGen]

12. I would hire onto my team

She's loyal.

[notadmblnd]

15. to a fault

[JustAnotherGen]

27. She's one if the girls!

[virtualobserver]

2. you are right about her "loyalty" to Hillary....that's kind of what the controversy is about.

[Bluenorthwest]

3. Party Chair is not an unpaid position.

nt

[Duckhunter935]

4. Oh, I am sure she will be repaid

Sadly. She knew what she was doing.

[Iliyah]

5. And take majority of the venom spewed.

Thank you for your service!

[oxymoron]

6. Yes, she obviously served her candidate well. nt

[Iliyah]

8. Yeah, the Democratic Party"

Cheers

[Dawgs]

7. Right, she did a great job.

Got our asses handed to us twice while she was chair.

Only big win came because Obama was such a great candidate. Had nothing to do with her.

Also, Dean was praised for the work he did. So, not so thankless after all.

[Exilednight]

10. Everyone I ever met in the party loved Howard Dean. DWS?

Not so much.

How many seats did she lose us?

[runaway hero]

14. over 100

[BlueMTexpat]

11. +1! eom

[R B Garr]

13. Agree, but wanted to say I love your Putin/Trump logo!

That's hilarious!

[GummyBearz]

16. Lolol

I would ask for more but I'm laughing too hard as it is

[Rex]

17. I second that.

The extreme center is having a breakdown.

[randome]

18. Yeah, the insistence on seeing DWS as 'evil' were always too much.

She could have done things a little better but that can be said about anyone. But the rabid left needed their pound of flesh and she was a convenient target so I'm glad she's leaving the post.
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[edhopper]

20. being a shill

for pay day loan operators is evil.

[randome]

25. Local politics. But I agree, it should not have been a local issue but a moral one.

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[edhopper]

35. maybe

but she took the side of the vultures over her constituents for donations.
She acted like a typical Repuke.

[edhopper]

19. oh bullshit

if it was so "thankless", why did she extort Obama into keeping her job?

She is a loan shark shill who shouldn't even be in congress.

[leftstreet]

24. +1

[Avalon Sparks]

40. + 1000

[fishwax]

21. That may be true. But it's still possible to do the job poorly.

[DFW]

22. Everyone that came after Howard had immense shoes to fill.

The day we get a DNC chairperson who manages THAT is the day we can comfortably look forward to controlling both houses of Congress again. I have no idea at all who that might be. It is further complicated by the fact that when a party has the White House, the President is the Party head, not the national committee chairperson. Howard was so effective because he was DNC Chair in opposition. In other words, the party was in his hands. That's what made his achievements in 2006 and 2008 so noteworthy, but also so possible.

It's also why he resigned in 2009. He had no interest in coming into conflict with Obama, and did the noble thing when Obama's inauguration made him the titular party head. Howard got kicked in the ass for his trouble by Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's first White House Chief of Staff and long-time Dean-hater, and stoically accepted his fate. But WE, the Democratic Party, have never forgotten his achievement. Like Al Gore with the Vice-Presidency, Howard changed the definition of the job of Party Chair forever.

We now expect great things, nearly impossible things, from our party chairperson. Anyone holding that position from 2009 on can either thank or curse Howard Dean for that.

[PatSeg]

23. Dean did an extraordinary job

It is hard to know before hand how good a person will be at such a job and in Dean's case, it really was a thankless job.

Was there anyone that Rahm Emmanuel didn't rub the wrong way?

[former9thward]

26. Don't know why you think it is unpaid.

Dean made $105,000 a year back in 2005 when he was Chair.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/republican-party/a-look-at-the-parties-sept-spe.html

[Avalon Sparks]

28. Since when do Dems thank corrupt party representatives?

Her actions were shameful and the only appropriate response should be reprehension.

Corruption is never a good thing for the masses.

[MohRokTah]

29. She wasn't corrupt

The only corruption I've seen are people celebrating Russian hackers. That's pretty damned corrupt if you ask me.

[Avalon Sparks]

31. Lol give me a break

You know it takes integrity to call out corruption when the corruption benefits YOU.

Over a grand in this year to Senator Sanders campaign and annual contributions of 300-500 to the DNC the last 15 years, and 35 years of only voting for Democrats..... and this is what I got in return? No one pees on my leg and tells me it's raining.

I know corruption when I see it.... It doesn't take a genius to know when you're getting screwed over....

The fact that members of a forum that identifies as Democratic are looking the other way and even supporting this travesty is beyond my comprehension.

You don't have to condemn it, or even speak out against her actions....

But to support it? To thank this bitch? Really? Fucking really?

[DinahMoeHum]

30. It's a job for a strategist, not an acting legislator. . .

. . .although a former legislator would be OK.

DWS was essentially serving two masters: the Democratic Party apparatus and her own constituency. If you try to do both at the same time, you won't do either one well.

[edhopper]

37. she was actually serving the

pay-day loan sharks who prey on her constituency.

[MohRokTah]

33. Bye!

[merrily]

34. Dean got enormous props from the public for the 50 state strategy and the 2008 success.

[edhopper]

36. Which DWS

completely dismantled. She was the worst.

[merrily]

39. It was dismantled by the DWS's predecessor.

[AgadorSparticus]

38. K&R. I totally agree and I feel bad for her....