Debbie Wasserman Schultz fired as DNC chair on eve of Philly convention

The signs of panic were everywhere at the Democratic National Committee yesterday, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz was defenestrated in three stages in the wake of release of DNC emails by Wikileaks.  Faced with clear evidence that Schultz and the Democratic Party were sabotaging the Sanders campaign, and fearful of boos and worse from the thousand-plus Sanders delegates on the convention floor should DWS speak, the first stage was to announce that she would not get a speaker’s slot. But I was among those who immediately suggested that leaving Schultz as the convention chair, gaveling in the sessions every day and gaveling them closed at night would still leave plenty of opportunity for anger to be visibly manifested before a nationwide TV audience.  Evidently, this didn’t occur to the panicked Dems who first booted Debbie off the speakers’ list. So stage two was to fire her from any role at the convention: Democratic National Committee...(Read Full Post)