Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic congresswoman from Florida, was appointed to the Democratic National Committee chair in part to reach out to Jewish donors. And true to the job description, she has leaped on the Republican debate of last weekend at which Rick Perry and Mitt Romney suggested they would start all countries at zero in foreign aid.
Wasserman Schultz yesterday sent out a craven email fundraising appeal that bashed the Republicans and called on about backing Israel, below. The letter directs you to a site where the Republicans are characterized as “extreme” isolationists.
Here’s her email:
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| Kathleen —
Here’s something I never thought I’d hear an American presidential candidate pledge to do: Cut all foreign aid for Israel to zero. But that’s exactly what happened at the Republican debate on Saturday, when Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Perry raced each other to the extremes of Tea Party isolationism, saying they’d “start everything at zero” in the foreign aid budget and force Israel and every other ally to make their case for receiving American assistance. It’s outrageous and dangerous — and it shows a critical ignorance of how a president needs to act. It is never responsible to raise doubts about our commitment to the security of a key ally like Israel. Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates have spent a lot of time lately saying how much they support Israel — and openly questioning President Obama’s commitment to the Jewish state. But a stance like this tells us two really important things: 1) These guys are so eager to please the most extreme elements of their Tea Party base that they’d forget about one of the most loyal allies our country has. 2) They fundamentally don’t understand our current foreign policy agreements, like the commitments we’ve made to Israel that establish certain levels of aid for years to come. At the end of the day, foreign aid is a tiny fraction of the federal budget — less than one percent — that goes a long way to support our national security and economic goals abroad. The cuts these candidates propose wouldn’t make a dent in the deficit, but they would wreak absolute havoc on our foreign policy and America’s standing in the world. In typical fashion, the Romney campaign tried to say two different things to two different audiences, releasing a statement to try to walk back his words — saying he was referring only to Pakistan. But one look at the transcript shows otherwise: “One of the things we have to do with our foreign aid commitments, the ongoing foreign aid commitments, I agree with Governor Perry. You start everything at zero.” While his campaign is already trying to wiggle out of it, Romney himself has been conspicuously silent on the matter. He might be hoping he can get away with pandering to the Tea Party isolationists, but we won’t let him. Tell Romney, Gingrich, and Perry that it’s absolutely unacceptable for any presidential candidate to suggest zeroing out our foreign aid to Israel — add your name today to the effort to fight back: http://my.democrats.org/Stand-up-for-Israel Thanks, Debbie Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz |
Right, into the sunlight with all this.
The American voters should know what “1) a most loyal ally” and “2) foreign policy agreements” means. Then, debbie can explain “our national security and economic goals abroad” in this.
Wait.
She is ” the Democratic congresswoman from Florida”???
Reading her “email” I thought that she is a loyal , faithful representative of Israeli Knesset.
Maybe my brain is just slow in the morning.
I will re-read it again.
“Cut all foreign aid for Israel to zero.”
Tell Israel and the I lobby to stop undermining US National security by continuing to build and expand illegal settlements in the West Bank and illegal housing in E Jerusalem. Aid to Israel should be tied in to this issue.
Let Wasserman Schultz know that the scales for Palestinian justice are tipping
Contact Wasserman Schultz let her know what you think
http://wassermanschultz.house.gov/contact/
Write or Phone My Offices
You may phone or send a message to me through the U.S. Postal Service. Please note that this is the slowest method: All mail sent to my offices must be scanned for security purposes, which means it will take an additional two weeks for me to receive it.
Washington, DC Office
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 118 Cannon HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: (202) 225-7931
Fax: (202) 226-2052
Pembroke Pines, FL Office
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 10100 Pines Blvd.
Pembroke Pines, FL 33026
Phone: (954) 437-3936
Fax: (954) 437-4776
Aventura, FL Office
Debbie Wasserman Schultz 19200 West Country Club Drive
Aventura, FL 33180
Phone: (305) 936-5724
Fax: (305) 932-9664
My goodness where do I begin with this treasonous letter?
Okay, I’ll just pick the basic overall message and I’ll leave it to others to break down further the rest of this toxic and insidious piece of propaganda:
“It is never responsible to raise doubts about our commitment to the security of a key ally like Israel”, Debbie says.
My first thought was: is this woman like really a believer in democracy, a system that only works when debate is open to all, or, is she a frigging communist who wants no questions asked about a specific governmental (failed and costly) policy?
If I knew nothing of zionism I’d probably read her as a communist. And because I know zionism, I’m clear here to say that I don’t know which one is worse: zionism or communism. Both demand the individual surrender their individuality in order to serve the tribe/commune. I never understood why you couldn’t serve efficiently and effectively AND simultaneously still keep your individuality intact. Jailers of the mind of mankind. Predators of free spirited man. Soul leeches.
Okay.
And don’t you just love the money violin miss Shultz plays when she says that our foreign aid is ONLY one percent of the federal budget- instead of saying THREE BILLION DOLLARS PLUS PLUS PLUS PLUS PLUS PLUS ETC are going to a well-off Apartheid warmongering country. That’s how to soften the money blow: relay it in the smallest numerical available – and in this case, how can you get smaller than the number One. She didn’t just put a pillow on your face before she punched you in the face and wallet, she put a frigging mattress on your full length to soften the blow and kick so you won’t feel a thing.
These traitors who are ‘managing’ our collective taxes are robbing us blind of both our money AND our democratic right to question them.
How long can we live like this for? What makes us peculiarly take the incessant abuse for decades on end? Is our personal self-loathing translating collectively into our political relationship with our parental government?
I know, I know: it’s probably all too deep. But one thing’s for sure: israel WILL BE on the debating table for 2012. And may the good lord speed up that merry hour and may the dirty devils do their little dance before the learning masses.