Are Democrats chafing at the bit to rid themselves of Debbie Wasserman Schultz?
Well, if politico.com’s Marc Caputo has it right, yes they are. And the sooner the better.
Excerpted from his just-published article:
The chatter about a House leadership post is gone. So is talk of statewide office. After Hillary Clinton’s defeat, there’s no prospect of an administration job for Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Wasserman Schultz is again on defense after steadfastly refusing to explain why she continued to employ Imran Awan, an IT staffer who was under a federal investigation for an alleged equipment and data scam in the U.S. House since February. She finally fired him on July 25, one day after authorities arrested him on a seemingly unrelated mortgage fraud charge. He was at the airport leaving for Pakistan, after wiring $283,000 there.
The firing came a full six months after about two dozen House Democrats dismissed four of Awan’s relatives and a friend, all of whom were under investigation with him.
Wasserman Schultz broke her public silence on Awan last week, portraying herself as the victim of “right wing media” attacks rooted in anti-Muslim bigotry aimed at Awan and the IT group.
But fellow Democrats are as confounded and disbelieving as ever by her penchant for making puzzling and stubborn political missteps.
“We wish she would go away and stop being so public by doubling down on negative stories,” said Nikki Barnes, a progressive DNC member from Florida, who believes Wasserman Schultz left the national party “in shambles” while chair, culminating with the hack of DNC servers and the release of embarrassing internal emails by WikiLeaks in the 2016 campaign. As for Wasserman Schultz’s defense, Barnes said “none of this makes sense. It doesn’t sound like racial profiling … there must have been something for her.”
It wasn’t so long ago that Schultz was on top of the world. She was a high-profile house member, chairperson of the Democratic National Committee, and the air was thick with rumors that she would be running for the U.S. Senate.
Now, based on what Mr. Caputo and others are saying, Democrats are still hopeful she will run, but not for the senate; just in the opposite direction, as fast as she can.
Instead of leaving her house seat to make a senate run, they seem to prefer she leaves her house seat, period. And I don’t blame them a bit either.
We have talked for months about the awan scandal mentioned in the above excerpts. And, I strongly suspect, the Democrat powers that be are fearful the time that mainstream media can hide it on their behalf is coming to an end. If Debbie Wasserman Schultz is gone, they can sneer that it’s just old news. If she is there, they can’t.
Look for Schultz to be pressured to leave. Heavily. And very, very soon.
