Harry Reid: The DNC was worthless under Debbie Wasserman Schultz

[justfollowingtheelections]

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/22/harry-reid-trashes-democratic-national-committee-the-dnc-has-been-worthless/
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/311506-reid-dnc-was-worthless-under-wasserman-schultz

He refuses to even call her by her name.  He calls her "that congresswoman from Florida".  WTF was Obama thinking when he appointed her head of the DNC?  She has single-handedly destroyed the party with her antics.

[justfollowingtheelections]

DWS had one big job this year and that was to put together the convention. And she did a great job! Hillary got a huge bounce coming out of the DNC in Philadelphia. It was the campaign's fault, not that of DWS that they couldn't hold onto it. To bad DWS couldn't even enjoy the convention because of the barbaric Bernie fanatics.

I think you live in an alternate reality.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Then I'm wrong and honestly, then I don't know why Lieberman wasn't coerced into supporting it. The law would be much stronger today. Maybe Lieberman was the sign the Democratic Party wasn't ready to endorse radical reform *shrugs*

Mea culpa. Sorry about that. (I still contend the blue dogs in the House blocked major healthcare reform on the scale of what was needed for a successful overhaul).

This is the truth unfortunately.  Many Democrats are in the pockets of the health insurance industry, just like Republicans are.  Lieberman's vote was a convenient excuse.

[justfollowingtheelections]

There was also the matter of getting Ben Nelson's vote - my guess would be that he was also opposed to the public option.

Nelson by the way now works as a lobbyist for the insurance industry and gets paid $1m per year.