Donna Brazile: We are a party that can take care of the needs of the poor and the wealthy alike.

[Fridays Child]

WTF?

(Just now, on Ed Shultz)

[LisaM]

1. Why is Donna such an influential Democrat?

I can't bear her.

[sammythecat]

20. I don't get it either.

She's never impressed me and the more I see her the less I like her.

[But....]

2. Ya have to feel bad...

for them poor needy wealthy:wtf:

[coriolis]

3. How stupid. Wealthy people don't have needs...

what is she thinking?

[Fridays Child]

6. Not unless you count the fact that they need...

...to pay their fair share of taxes.

[OwnedByFerrets]

24. What are you thinking......

They have many needs........they need many poor servile folks to do their bidding.

[BigDaddy44]

25. Fire protection, police protection

Basic services that all of us need (roads, bridges, sewers, infrastructure). Shall I continue?

[devilgrrl]

4. And people keep wondering why Democrats can't win elections - look at their leadership.

Where do they find these people? :mad:

[kstewart33]

5. Donna's great. Glad she's on the team. nt

[devilgrrl]

8. Yeah, she's wicked awesome in a "Fox in the hen house" kind of way.

:sarcasm:

[Fridays Child]

9. She's been known to make some very sensible public statements.

This, however, was not one of them.

[Deja Q]

7. Everyone has needs, and some groups have different ones.

I can't say ill will of her, though all I know is: if I were wealthy (multi-millionaire), they could take out 50% and it wouldn't bother me.

:shrug:

[Hidey]

10. I'd say the wealthy have been well taken care of for the last 8 years..

Allegedly this effect will "trickle down" on to the rest of us.

I hope they're right, because Dubya's been trickling on us for quite some time now.

They claim this is beneficial somehow... You know, being trickled on.

I thought unchecked trickling caused erosion, but they corrected me and said it was fine.

The benefits should be kicking in any minute now.. Yep.

Just any second, I'm sure..

[HughBeaumont]

11. Unfortunately, we only seem to take care of the . . . er . . . "needs" of the wealthy.

I mean, gee, who gives a fuck about things like schools, universal health care, higher education, infrastructure repair, the ecology, etc? Only the loonah leftbag conspiracy tree-nuts want those stupid things.

[Peace Patriot]

12. "Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred." --FDR

That's the kind of Democratic Party leadership we need. Take no prisoners.

Brazile is a holdover from the McAulife/DLC era. She has been particularly protective of electronic voting run on 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY programming code, owned and controlled by rightwing Bushite corporations, with virtually no audit/recount controls. I don't know how she survived into the Howard Dean era, nor who her mafia bosses...ahem, corporate sponsors are. Sorry, I find it VERY, VERY difficult to forgive any Democratic leader with so direct a hand in promoting the end of our democracy with 'TRADE SECRET' vote counting. Christopher Dodd is another one--directly responsible for getting that global corporate predator job done in time for the 2004 election. They've ALL covered it up (really, to a mind-boggling degree). But I've made a close study of this particular matter--due to its overriding importance--and these two are especially important operatives of the e-voting election theft industry.

So it doesn't surprise me that Brazile thinks that "we" should serve the rich as well as the poor. It is rather surprising to hear her say it, though. Dodd is smoother and talks a good leftist line, but is nevertheless a snake in the grass on this all-important issue. So is Brazile. I get the feeling she's more of a toady, though, while Dodd is major player.

[Fridays Child]

13. Great FDR quote.

And you're right about Brazile, I think.

[magellan]

14. Yes, wasn't she the one who determined there was no

...funny business in the 2004 election, all was well within the world of electronic voting, period, end of investigation?

And what did we learn just recently: no one at the FBI told OH gov Blackwell about any terrorist threat requiring a lock-down of the crucial Ohio precinct where they were counting votes, out of sight of everyone including the media for a few hours election night.

I didn't like Brazile before then and can't stomach her since. She's a total sell-out like the rest of the DLC. I trust what they say as much as I trust anything Bush** says.

[Peace Patriot]

15. Yes, she did the McAuliffe-DNC report on the 2004 election--a total whitewash.

I noticed her as a corporate toady then--and she hasn't done anything since to disabuse me of that notion.

[ogsbee]

22. Brazile is a mock Democrat

She, like Shrum, is paid to lose elections by their real bosses. She's not a Democrat and should go.

[KillCapitalism]

16. Let's just focus on the poor mmm'kay.

The wealthy are doing fine, always have, and always will, they don't need any help.

[KG]

17. a quote she was given, i'm sure, by her good freind karl rove in one of their weekly chats

yes, a top level dem operative considers rove a good friend. :eyes: no wonder the dems are so far from power.

[Fridays Child]

18. Tell me this isn't true.

[KG]

21. sorry, but brazile thinks karl rove is just dreamy...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A2674-2003Mar9


Brazile, the former Gore campaign manager, knows about that. The two first started talking in January 2001, with a "good-natured taunt." Now, Brazile said, "I respect him, I admire him, and though we come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, I enjoy the conversation."

Brazile tells Rove how Bush policies are playing and checks in with him before her television appearances. "He bounces things off me, and I'll say, 'That's going to get you in a lot of trouble,' " she said.

In exchange, Rove has been kind to Brazile's friends and clients, such as Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and District Mayor Anthony A. Williams (D). When she complained that one of her consulting clients was excluded from a White House event, "he sent me a three-page memo." Rove invited Brazile to the White House mess, "so we can get people wagging their tongues."

The two stopped their discussions three months before the midterm elections, then got back in touch to do an election postmortem.

"People think I'm crazy talking to Karl Rove," Brazile said, but "there's something about this guy." Still, Brazile draws the line at advising Rove about appealing to minorities, her specialty. "Hell, no," she said. "He'd have to pay for that advice."

[RainDog]

19. She is speaking to the wealthy. To assauge their fears

that if the rest of the nation is treated like human beings with rights to things like life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, it does not mean that they will be paraded around town with their heads on pikes.

The poor and the middle-class know this. The rich have to be reminded from time to time.

[blindpig]

26. I dunno.....

They're digging themselves a purtty deep hole....the poor & middle class may have a change of heart.

[RainDog]

29. that's the underside of the observation. ;) - n/t

[El Pinko]

23. WTF is right. Since when are the needs of the wealthy not being met in spades?

Donna Brazile is so fucking useless.

[SammyWinstonJack]

27. The wealthy have greeds and bu$hco has delivered.

:grr:

[arcadian]

28. Those poor downtrodden wealthy.

They often have to mingle with us unwashed masses when they go out to have their Bently washed or god forbid when the domestics have taken the night off. Being wealthy is so taxing. NOT!

[mitchum]

30. Notice how "the middle class" is absent from her pronouncement?