The DNC Just Declared War on Bernie Sanders’ Political Revolution

[UglyGreed]

The Democratic National Committee, headed by the massively unpopular Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has just lifted the last restrictions preventing the DNC from receiving direct contributions from Wall Street and special interest lobbyists.

Under the new rules, political action committees (PACs) and other corporate lobbyists and special interests are now free to donate unlimited sums to the DNC itself. The previous restrictions were put in place by President Barack Obama after his own election, which he marked by saying, “We are going to change how Washington works.”

He continued by affirming that corporate PACs “will not fund my party. They will not run our White House. And they will not drown out the voice of the American people when I’m president of the United States of America.”

http://usuncut.com/news/the-dnc-opens-the-gates-to-unlimited-wall-street-funding/

We need more money to crush the people's will!!!!

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[Trajan]

1. Well ... THIS is true

Many former supporters of the DNC, myself included, have STOPPED donating to them last year ..

I'm sure I am not alone - they are hurting for clear sources ... Now they got them ...

[elleng]

10. Haven't sent them a cent in years.

[PatrynXX]

80. DNC is dead Love live Democrats.

seriously the DNC is dead. or is it the RDNC

[RKP5637]

85. The DNC is obsolete and needs to move out of the way. n/t

[elleng]

92. except they're still running things.

[bvar22]

135. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the current Chair of the DNC does not run anything.

She isn't smart enough to run the DNC.
She merely follows orders.

What most are calling "incompetence" is actually allegiance to her Party Bosses.
She "failed upwards" when she ran the DCCC "Red to Blue" program,
and she will Fail Upwards again when she leaves the DNC.

The ONLY reason she is still chair of the DNC is that her bosses approve of the "job" she is doing.
Otherwise, she would have been fired LONG ago when she refused to endorse Democrats in Florida in 2008 because it would hurt her Republican friends feelings.

"I want to thank Debbie Wasserman-Schultz for being an outstanding chair of our party. (Applause.) She is a great partner."--President Obama

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

103. Seriously, if it's a war they want, they can have it! Bernie knows how to bring it!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[mpcamb]

139. In some measure they (DNC) have lost already. So many are going to sit on their hands

rather than support an HRC ticket after this low life dreck.
It'll open the door for a truly incompetent R to win.

[Volaris]

107. It's Third Way

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

27. No DNC DSCC DCCC for me. I donate directly to the candidate.

I don't like the way they spent my money in the past.

[MissDeeds]

36. Same here

I don't think the party represents me anymore.

[Duval]

48. And same here.

The DNC no longer gets money from me. The entire Democratic Party needs Bernie to move them back from center/right.
Enough is Enough!

[monicaangela]

53. Same here...

Since the democratic party sold its soul to Wall Street during the Clinton administration and the DLC, I stopped acknowledging the fact that either party, republican or democratic have the interest of the 99% of us in mind as they continue to sell this country to the oligarchs.

[rhett o rick]

60. Same here. nm

[Sienna86]

114. Same here. nm

[Plucketeer]

141. And same here!

Yer I still get the "Survey" mailings comprized of a bevy of Stupid, push-poll like questions and a place to write in my donation. I usually wirte "Bullshit!" on them - stick them in a plain envelope and mail them to Pelosi's office. I always suggest they look to their corporate masters for dough and it looks like they're taking my advice!

[Ferd Berfel]

45. I won't donate to that cabal again

we need something new

[Arugula Latte]

69. Same here.

[Carolina]

78. Exactly

Directly to the candidates.

[RKP5637]

97. Same here, I quit when I realized what they are all about. n/t

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The Empire strikes back, I guess.

[hay rick]

28. Good guess. nt

[Fumesucker]

3. Then they fight you?

[UglyGreed]

4. I guess

[Fumesucker]

9. I don't know about you but the stuff I learn here gets spread around elsewhere

[UglyGreed]

15. .

[SammyWinstonJack]

57. Same here.

[paleotn]

58. +1000

[bigwillq]

5. Kick (nt)

[elleng]

6. Right. Robert Reich wrote this:

from Robert Reich.Democratic National Committee has quietly reversed restrictions banning donations

'According to today’s Washington Post, the Democratic National Committee has quietly reversed restrictions banning donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees -- restrictions that were put in place by Barack Obama when he was the Democratic candidate for president in 2008. (The DNC’s sweeping reversal of the previous was confirmed by three Democratic lobbyists who said they have already received solicitations from the DNC.) According to the Post, Hillary Clinton has set up a joint fundraising committee with the DNC and the new rules are likely to provide her with an advantage.

To my mind, this is the worst aspect of insider-dominated crony capitalism – the rigging of our system by big money. It’s exactly what Americans are reacting against in this election. It’s precisely what the movement to take back our democracy and economy from the moneyed interests is all about. The DNC appears to be nothing but siphon for more corruption.

What do you think?'

https://www.facebook.com/RBReich/?fref=nf

[UglyGreed]

8. IMO This will not end well

[restorefreedom]

11. oh hell, its not going to be quiet

when we get through with it!

[OZi]

14. I think they don't care how it looks.

A quick spin cycle through the infotainment apparatus will make it all seem right.

[elleng]

21. Obviously they don't care.

How many here do???

[ArcticFox]

40. more of the same

Change the rules while the ball's in the air.

[DJ13]

49. What do you think?

"the Democratic National Committee has quietly reversed restrictions banning donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees -- restrictions that were put in place by Barack Obama when he was the Democratic candidate for president in 2008."


I think that Clinton should stop hiding behind Obama if her people are going to disrespect him by doing stuff like this.

[dana_b]

54. I think that Clinton should stop hiding behind Obama if her people are going to disrespect him by

doing stuff like this.
---------------
Well said and so true!! She loves to hold him up as someone that she is 100% in line with and then she does stuff like this.
I WISH Bernie would call her out on it.

[A Simple Game]

118. What do I think? I think super delegates don't come cheap and

Hillary's donations are probably drying up.

[AlbertCat]

128. this is the worst aspect of insider-dominated crony capitalism

Needs much repeating

this is the worst aspect of insider-dominated crony capitalism
this is the worst aspect of insider-dominated crony capitalism
this is the worst aspect of insider-dominated crony capitalism

The nepotism of the Clinton Campaign is mind boggling.

not to mention of changing the rules to your advantage in the middle of the game.

[elleng]

129. Sure as hell is!

[retrowire]

7. wtf nt

[Marty McGraw]

51. ( ._.)

[John Poet]

12. I guess they don't mind throwing OBAMA under the bus

if the price is right. But they better pry HILLARY off of him first.

[rhett o rick]

20. Obama can fix this if he has the guts. He can fire DWS, but he won't. He is part of the

Establishment that doesn't want the People to have a voice. Big Money rules the leadership of our Party.

[JudyM]

42. We should all let him know what we think.

[rhett o rick]

52. I totally agree. We need to start a petition. What is the petition site. nm

[JudyM]

124. Humbled to say I'm not sure. Maybe Moveon.com?

[rhett o rick]

126. Not a bad idea. Maybe they've already started one. nm

[angrychair]

142. Whitehouse.gov

There is a petition section that has to be answered, one way or the other, if it gets enough signatures.

[rhett o rick]

144. Thanks. nm

[RKP5637]

98. Exactly! K&R! n/t

[Duckhunter935]

82. Friday night dump

Sure disrespectful of President Obama. This needs to be talked about until the news finally picks it up.

I am sure Hillary is against it and will denounce it

[colsohlibgal]

13. The Corporate Democrats Are Panicked

They will throw as many millions as they need to retain their place in the Plutocracy.

She has her name going for her, she has corporate gazillions at her disposal to squash this riff raff populist challenge. On top of that she has hordes of supporters who are either oblivious to this or just don't care.

Oh well, I will keep on sending my comparatively minor cash contributions to Bernie, feel the Bern!

[Cassiopeia]

34. None of that matters to the donors.

She will provide the policies they need to continue and expand their greed. That is the ONLY reason they give the millions they do.

[jwirr]

71. The good news is that the way she spends money even the

cover of the DWS and the DNC will not be able to keep this secret.

And this big money in politics is going to make even more people angry and ready to kick ass at the polls.

How do we get them to open the books to us? We need to be able to watch what this money is spent on.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

16. Translation. Regular Americans have stopped donating to the DNC, and they're either rapidly running

out of cash or already in debt.

[elleng]

23. I think they've been in financial trouble for some time.

No surprise, of course, but now that 'their' candidate is running into 'issues,' it's more important to them.

[Trajan]

38. Exactly

After the defection of Bernie supporters - ALL they have left is the diminishing pile of low-middle income supporters, (ala Hillary's crew here), and then?

All they have left are the billionaires ...

The regular folk feel all alone in the company of the DNC ... There is no love for regular working families .. And that is a crying shame ...

[99th_Monkey]

39. Ding! Ding! <-- ring of truth ^ nr

[Duckhunter935]

83. this^^^^

[Autumn]

17. Guess it's time to send more

"ammo" to the front line. The thing is if they want to declare war, then they better expect a fucking fight back. They need us, I'm not seeing where we need them. I have sent donations and supported Democrats without the DNC for years now

[AtomicKitten]

18. Democracy Now 2/11/16 is a must see.

Discussion with Jeffrey Sachs. Lee Fang reported on the donors and wad of corporate cash the CBCPAC takes. Explains yesterday's endorsement. I think they purposely misled the MSM to report it as from the CBC. Great discussion, especially on foreign policy. It's a must see.

[appalachiablue]

63. I saw the session today with Jeffrey Sachs, got it all. Lee Fang is an extraordinary

investigative journalist I've followed for several years. Kudos also to journalist Zaid Jilani.

[HereSince1628]

19. I assume I'll vote for the dem nominee, it's bound to be historic

And it could be historic not because it's the first secular Jew, or the first Methodist Woman. It may be the last nominee for a Dem party as we know it.

The party is showing signs of losing to the strain of being big enough for both pro-corporatist New Dems and populist Pro-labor

It seems to mostly be about campaign financing and the way current reality discounts taxpayer/voters. I really can't see the DNC turning against their funding source. They don't trust people to cough up the money and they can't get elected without money. They can't govern in the interest of people because the oligarchs control all the strings (which isn't to say all the oligarch agree with each other).

[Dustlawyer]

110. The 3rd Way Dems have destroyed our Party!

Basically, what we have now with the Democratic and Republican Party's are the Harlem Globetrotters vs. the Washington Generals! They want us to believe that they are real, but it is just a game where the owners of the two teams take all of the money from the gate that we paid for admission, then sold us overpriced Defense budgets, Wall Street bailouts, and watered down public education and social safety net.

Now they are Swift Boating Bernie before SC with coordinated, manipulative lies to try to get us to believe that Bernie was not a civil rights student leader who was arrested. Rovian Republican tactics against another Democratic candidate, because hey, the two teams are owned by the same group now. Who started us on this road by selling our team (Party) to the owners of the Republican team (Party), none other than Bill Clinton!

[Enthusiast]

131. They want to continue the following trend. Bernie is threatening it.

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[Dustlawyer]

133. You can graph how much money is stolen from the 99%

When Bernie says that he is going to tax the millionaires and billionaires, it is for good reason. It would be economic justice!

It also charts the rise in influence peddling with the resultant effects, starting when St. Reagan took office. You cannot stop influence peddling if there is no one looking for the quid pro quo. The Attorney General's have not been doing the job they are supposed to be doing. Holder was a joke, I have seen that personally as well. The AG's job now is to do what Wall Street says, and nothing more! Rich and powerful do not get investigated, indicted, or prosecuted unless they piss off someone more powerful.

[CrispyQ]

136. Damn! That is a telling chart.

[Enthusiast]

138. Thanks to Saint Ronald for starting the trend.

[farleftlib]

22. I've been sending directly to the candidate of my choice

for about 5 years now. The DNC keeps sending me those renewal forms with the postage-paid envelope. I have a mind to send them a nastygram in that free envelope.

[jham123]

24. Tape it to a box

That is filled with household trash

[Cassiopeia]

32. Or concrete.

[Fuddnik]

105. You mean, you don't?

I send them a little message back, on the form with my name on it, just so they know.

Lately, the message has been "Feel the Bern"!!

[Rilesome]

66. That may be where this ends

[Carolina]

86. Another of my favorite quotes

from the hero of my youth. He was inspiring... and we went to the moon. How has the Party gone from him to the likes of HRC!

Thanks for the reminder of a great man

[highprincipleswork]

26. This is disgusting, and ample reason alone to contribute to, work for, and vote for Bernie!

[RKP5637]

100. We all voted for Bernie today by mail. We're all fed up with The Establishment. Bernie is a breath

of fresh air.

[highprincipleswork]

104. That is so great to hear! Love it. Sending blessings and wishes of victory for us all.

[RKP5637]

109. Millions of Americans are finally waking up and finding a voice with Bernie!!!! n/t

[Fuddnik]

106. I'm hand delivering our ballots Monday morning to the elections office.

[Dont call me Shirley]

29. K & R

[sarge43]

30. Is all this money going to the Clinton campaign?

If so, what about all the other Democrats running for other offices? Wasn't there a big to-do not long ago about Senator Sanders not sharing his campaign money with other Democrats?

[Cassiopeia]

31. Not even 24 hours after Hillary says she's keeping the changes Obama made

Her closest cohort eliminates one of those changes.

Anyone still believe Hillary will keep any of her campaign promises? If so, I have tons of shit for sale, just name it. I have it and I'll give you a great price.

[JudyM]

44. What a coincidence that it happened the DAY AFTER the debate.

[Duckhunter935]

87. isn't it

And on a Friday

[JudyM]

90. Right. Obama needs to step in. I would love to be a fly on the wall in his room with Michelle.

(When they are talking about the election dramas)

[Fuddnik]

108. Do you have free delivery?

Send to:

430 South Capitol Street SE
Washington, DC 20003

c/o Debbie Weaselman-Schlitz

Put it on my Walmart credit card.

[Cassiopeia]

111. Sorry, no credit cards accepted

all payments due up front in cash only.

However, my deals are so phenomenal that it will be worth you're effort to round up the cash. I can provide free delivery after payment is received in full!

[antigop]

116. there's always this...

http://www.chocolatefantasies.com/gaggiftschocs.htm#.Vr9Z5-ag-So

[bowens43]

33. how can anyone support these people??They are pure fucking evil. Rotten

[SammyWinstonJack]

70. Yep. Rotten to the core.

[litlbilly]

35. We are in full blown stage 3...then they fight you

[99th_Monkey]

37. "HEY Corporate America. You can BUY US too. Bribery's not just for Republicans anymore. nt

[Helen Borg]

41. If the DNC can change it like that...

Then it was a bogus ban to begin with.

[Jack Rabbit]

43. No, she didn't

She (DWS, aka the DNC) declared war on Bernie's campaign a long time ago.

[xloadiex]

46. Will Bernie have to take

money from the DNC? Will they then turn around and say, "See, he does take money from lobbyists and wall street."

[red dog 1]

47. "Progressive Group Pushes For Ouster of DNC Chair"

UPI
January 7, 2016
By Ann Marie Awad


WASHINGTON, Jan. 5, 2016 - The progressive group RootsAction has collected 24,000 signatures in less than five days on a petition calling for the ouster of Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz as head of the Democratic National Committee.

More:
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/01/05/Progressive-group-pushes-for-ouster-of-DNC-chair/1321452020363/

[dana_b]

50. This is exactly why people are leaving the Democratic party

dishonest, secretive, bunch of b.s. I can't stand the DNC and if Hillary takes their money after all the "we need to reform the campaign system" crap she spouted last night, then she is no better than the DNC.

[demosocialist]

55. desperation

I think they know her donors are maxing out and need to deal with Sanders YUUUGGGEEEE amount of small donors

[TBF]

56. Where is that link to donate to Debbie's opponent?

She needs to go.

[dana_b]

59. good idea!! He's Tim Canova

Found him: https://timcanova.com/

He's a Democrat so there's no broken rules here.

[demosocialist]

62. I like this guy from what I have read! n/t

[TBF]

73. I'm supposed to send this link to my friends -

here you are fellow Bernie supporters - the link to help out Tim:

I just gave to Tim Canova.

To see details and contribute now please go to: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/timcanova2016

[TBF]

76. And more news about our friend Tim -

and in this page of links there is the petition to unseat DWS: https://timcanova.com/news.htm

[TBF]

72. Awesome, thank you! nt

[Tommymac]

91. Donated to him.

And to Blue America...who supports him and several other true progressive candidates.

BlueAmerica16 on ActBlue

[kath]

61. This is truly heinous.

[Le Taz Hot]

64. We raised almost $7 million in 24 hours.

Bring it on, muthas!

[libdem4life]

94. Precisely. HRC has to grovel before billionaires. Bernie just makes a statement on TV.

There is desperation in the air. Maybe the billionaires aren't so sure they will get their millions worth? They are not stupid, blind or clueless.

Is it too early to call this a kind of Tipping Point?

[Duppers]

65. K & R

+1000.

[WillyT]

67. K & R !!!

[cantbeserious]

68. We Us Together - Vs - Me MyBank And I -- The 1% Will Not Be Denied

eom

[silvershadow]

74. You and I

[NoMoreRepugs]

75. this kind of crap raises the chances of a Rethug Presidency

because it makes one shake their heads about the Democratic Party

[AZ Progressive]

96. Hillary's only chance of winning is if a full civil war breaks out in the Republican Convention

Republicans have a clear edge in enthusiasm, and Hillary just doesn't inspire enthusiasm

https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=1484

[RKP5637]

79. The DNC/DWS is ushering Trump right into the WH! n/t

[cantbeserious]

84. IMHO - A Vote For HRC In The Primary Is A Vote For Trump In The General Election

eom

[RKP5637]

88. Exactly what is going to happen! Millions of people are fed up with both the DNC and the RNC.

[cantbeserious]

89. This Revolt Has Been Building For Years - The DWS, DNC, DLC, Third-Way Has Only Themselves To Blame

eom

[RKP5637]

93. I've felt neglected for years. Part of some electoral machine that didn't give a damn about me.

Bernie is the first that has resonated with my thoughts in a long time.

[cantbeserious]

95. Agree Completely

eom

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

81. The DNC is reactionary.

re·ac·tion·ar·y
rēˈakSHəˌnerē/
adjective
adjective: reactionary

1.
(of a person or a set of views) opposing political or social liberalization or reform.

[libdem4life]

99. If it's Bernie vs. Trump...no contest. Bernie wins. In fact, he relishes that match up.

Acts of desperation do not make investors confident. Like when a company buys up its own shares...it's not a power move. And that's the equivalent of what DWS just did. The word is right out of the DNC's own message.

[Skrups]

101. change registrations

Maybe we can start a national campaign to change our registrations to Independent after the primary. It's easy to do and it sends a clear message. The next time around when you want to vote in a rigged primary you can easily change back.

[kgnu_fan]

102. So frustrating....

[sibelian]

112. My God, they just don't CARE any more do they?

Blatant! Out in the fucking open! Insane!

Shakes fist, rarrgh...

[Iwillnevergiveup]

113. So I'm just imagining

what it might be like....

to elect Bernie Sanders AND Tim Canova.

[Zorra]

115. We are dealing with shallow, transparent people here, people who cannot understand

that doing trash like this is driving good people, lifetime Democrats, out of the Democratic party.

They sold their souls for shiny things, and believe everyone else did too.

This one's for Debbie...

"The letter emails that you wrote me, made me stop and wonder why, but I guess you felt like you had to put things right. Just remember this my girl, when you look up in the sky, you can see the stars, and still not see the light.

Me, I'm already gone."

[Gene Debs]

121. That lyric quote made me remember something...You know how politicians are

always picking campaign songs that they don't seem to have closely scrutinized the lyrics to? How the songs often say something very different than the candidate probably wanted to put across? It reminded me of Hillary Clinton's using Tom Petty's "American Girl" during the slugfest that developed with Barack Obama during the 2008 Primary campaign...And I remember wondering whether Clinton had actually heard the line "God it's so painful when something that's so close / Is still so far out of reach"...

Irony! It ain't just what a golf club tastes like.

[snot]

117. Poor souls; money is all they've got. (nt)

[silvershadow]

119. Well, since we are allowed to do that, I have declared war on DWS. Consider supporting

Tim Canova for Congress! If there was a group here, I would join in a heartbeat. I have already donated to his campaign, and plan to do so again. Payback can sometimes be hell. Unintended consequences, Debbie.

[jalan48]

120. It's getting harder to differentiate some Democrats from the Republicans.

[dorkzilla]

122. That sound you're hearing is the sound of the final nail in the coffin

of Hillary's campaign. This is SUCH an obvious attempt to shut Bernie up through money that it is NOT going to play well with the majority of LIBERAL, PROGRESSIVE members (or former, as I am daily hearing) of the Democratic party who want MONEY OUT OF POLITICS.

Guess Maddi didn't send in her dollar!!!

[Uncle Joe]

123. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, UglyGreed.

[sammythecat]

125. "Hey! Wanna bribe somebody but think it's too complicated?"

"We're the DNC and we're taking bribes again!! If you want access to a politician, if you want a politician who will really listen to your concerns, then we almost certainly have just the right Democrat for you. For our elite "supporters" we can even arrange private one on one sessions with your favorite candidate! And what comes after that? Well, that's just between you and your candidate (wink).

We're the DNC, you're one-stop bribery central! Remember..."If you got a BOM*, we got a Dem for you!"

*Boatload o' Money

[Pakhet]

143. brilliant!

I hear that in my head like a bad old-timey radio commercial

[sammythecat]

145. It probably should've started with

"Hi, Debbie Wasserman Schultz here, to tell you about O̶x̶i̶C̶l̶e̶a̶n̶ the DNC ... ".

Thanks for the compliment but I really must share the award with the late, great, Billy Mays, infomercial pitchman extraordinaire.

[randys1]

127. Jesus, it is almost as if they want to shoot themselves in the foot.

[Enthusiast]

130. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

[dreamnightwind]

132. Rec #199, do I hear 200? Who wants it?

[avaistheone1]

134. All done for the benefit of Hillary. HRC is a crook. As far as i am concerned she may as well call

herself. Hillary CROOKton.

[99Forever]

137. Neoliberals are fine with bribery.

It's one of the reasons they must be driven from the Democratic Party and back where to they came from, the Republican cesspool they slithered out of.

[mgmaggiemg]

140. you can't crush the people's

will in a general election it's not about money ask mitt romney