DNC Chair: If it Were Up to the GOPers, We’d All Be Driving Foreign Cars (Guess What She Drives)
**Written by Doug Powers
How economically un-American and devious is the Republican field of presidential candidates? They’ve already managed to control the automobile purchasing habits of Congresswoman and DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz:
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the DNC, ripped into Republican presidential contenders who opposed President Obama’s 2009 bailouts for General Motors and Chrysler.
“If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars; they would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes,” she said at a breakfast for reporters organized by The Christian Science Monitor.
But according to Florida motor vehicle records, the Wasserman Schultz household owns a 2010 Infiniti FX35, a Japanese car whose parent company is Nissan, another Japanese company…
Don’t let this happen to you. Vote Democrat in 2012 so the Republicans can’t force you buy a foreign car. They’ve already gotten to the DNC Chair, but it’s not too late for the rest of America.
(h/t Weasel Zippers)
**Written by Doug Powers
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The Fail is strong in this one.
Liberals..stuck on stupid.
Unfortunately the truth behind the facade won’t ever be known beyond the blogs.
The only thing that sticks anymore is the initial headlines. The reverberations (of which the note about what kind of car that liar owns) never make it to the ears of the American Idol worshiping masses.
They are too distracted, too self focused, and, thanks to public schools, too stupid to care if there is any truth beyond the statement made.
Come on man someone would have filled the void.Take time and money but,GM and Chrysler aren’t irrelaceable.
Yes. You can feel the incompetence.
Wow. How … ridiculous. I suppose she would claim that she WANTS to own a foreign car, she’s just working to make sure we all have CHOICES.
“Stupid is as stupid does.”
Not only that, but they elected a foriegner for president. Next time we have to go American-made.
so according to miss big mouth, no matter how bad gm and chrysler were, they cannot go under. but, perhaps they wouldn’t have been so bad off, had she herself actually purchased some american cars herself. but, what if somebody invents personal flying machines, or jet packs, and cars are obsolete, do we still save them? i know, but don’t laugh, in the early 1900′s they said we would still be traveling on horse and buggy, and where are they today?
*The auto bailouts were wrong, period, end of story; Management and the UAW ran them into the ground, and at that point, they should have been buried; New auto blood would have emerged, and they would have looked like the Japanese, Korean, and German transplants, efficient and non-union!
*Unionism is communism.
*This Shultz must be related to that BSNBC Shultz, as in, fire, aim, ready!
Peteee: if jet packs, personal flying machines, and other technological advancements that make cars obsolete are invented by individuals who live in other countries (such as Japan), the US Government will prevent sale of those items (up to and including confiscating any attempted importing of said items) because it is looked at as “unfair” for someone with a better product to make all the “research, development, and marketing” of an American companies product suddenly useless.
It’s something that has already been happening for years. Our technology used to lead the world. Now it lags behind more and more because “jobs” are one of the biggest platforms that politicians run on, and they can’t afford to let a foreign company wipe out an entire industry if it means they won’t get re-elected.
It’s things like this that makes her Pelosi Poodle.
She should have to give up that Infinity and drive a Chevy Dolt….
typical liberal hypocrite, says one thing and does the opposite no matter the subject.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be able to sell her Infiniti FX35 and get government motor Volt just to keep unions happy.
she is one obnoxious b!45h, most females on the left are, but she sets the standard, her and Piglousi.
Well in Cambridge and Berkeley, it is a status symbol to drive a well-patinaed Saab (if your pretentiously unpretentious) or a Prius (if you have to make an “in your face” statement). If everyone is driving a foreign car, they lose their cache. The next thing you know, all middle-aged guys will be wearing ponytails and earrings too.
Without regard to politics, from a purely objective standpoint, Democrats have a number of smart, creative people who could serve as DNC chair.
Why would they ever select this person? Her incompetence is stunning.
Maybe Little Debbie thought her Infiniti was built in ‘Nissua, MN’…you know that auto plant in one of the 57 states.
Another genius with a foot in their mouth…
See post #11
Do the DNC cars include Black Boxes?
You can put a black box in my car after you pry the gun from my cold dead hand.
Gee, I feel really guilty about buying a new Accord Monday….. no I don’t.
Sweet.
Don’t be mad at me. In the Palin thread RSS admited that right now he hoped Obama loses in 2012, but not to Palin.
I told him if he gave us the name of a conservative alternative you and I would take him out for Maidrites and Chocolate malts.
Actually, the rice-burners are pretty good cars. I’ve only owned two (1969 Toyota Corona Deluxe and a 1996 Honda Accord) in my life, but they were fun to drive, and easy on the gas.
My wife loves her present car (2010 Ford Fusion Sport), but the kind of car I like to drive, America quit making years ago.
The only way I would even consider buying a GM vehicle would be if they brought back a rear-wheel drive Fleetwood Brougham D’Elegance. Something a Navy jet could land on or take off from.
If Duesenberg, Cord, Auburn, Packard, Kaiser, Hudson, and Studebaker can fail, then so can GM.
Unions have their time and place, and politics isn’t one of them. The auto industry was saved as a payback to the UAW. Volkswagon learned the hard way, leaving the USA for lower wages in Mexico, then realizing that the american worker built a better vehicle than the Germans did.
LOL,
I saw
One of Kewlest car I ever had anything to do with.
1930 Packard 733 Roadster. Pic is not car I speak of, it had a new hand woven grill. Awesome in itself.
If dems really had their way none of us would drive anything. I don’t want anyone as stupid as she telling me what I need to drive.
Oh, it just gets better by the hour. When the deal goes down I promise not to go O/T so much.
http://obamareleaseyourrecords.blogspot.com/2011/05/expanded-analysis-forged-birth.html
Stupid, ugly and liberal. No wonder this yenta got picked as the head of the DNC.
And yes, I went there.
Regards,
Peter H.
Like numerous other companies, GM and Chrysler could have gone into Ch. 11 and reorganized to compete in todays market. Instead they postponed the next failure.
If it was up to leftists, we wouldn’t drive anything because of the environazi regulations.
Leftists: stuck on stupid since 1917.
Just another case of “do as I say, not as I do”. Leave it up to those dirty, right-wing tricksters to point out her hypocrisy. Has anybody actually questioned her directly for her hypocrisy, and if so, what was her response? My guess would be something along the line of “nothing to see here folks, move along now”.
I especially like that ending bit you wrote, Doug. It has some nice phrasing to it
Must. Resist. Easy. Joke.
Why do the Dems keep repeating this story, that Obama’s bailout in ’09 saved the US auto industry, and that Republicans would have let it all fail? That just isn’t history as I remember it. Bush (Paulson) was guilty of making the ~$40B loan bailout available. The Rs at the time said this wouldn’t work, and GM/Chrysler should go through a structured bankruptcy. Dems kept saying a bankruptcy would end the industry as no one would buy cars from a company in bankruptcy. As usual, the Dems were wrong, as was Bush. The bailouts were a MASSIVE failure and Obama ended up leading them through a very union-friendly bankruptcy. I guess you could say he was following the Romney/Pawlenty plan! Of course screwing bondholders for $40B and taxpayers for another $45B tax writeoff has made GM look profitable. But to say Obama saved the industry with his bailout is beyond spin! It’s wrong.
If the Republicans had any balls and/or brains they would come out with ads to counter the Dem’s lies with the TRUTH. But it appears they can’t handle the truth! Do the republicans really want to win????
I think Wasserman / Shultz was strained through a sock.
She will be the gift that keeps on giving. In the last 2 days she is 2 for 2! Yesterday it was GOP hates women, the same day her husband Ed Shultz insulted Laura Ingram with a misogynistic insult, today this.
Can’t wait for tomorrow!
My guess is she doesn’t even know she’s driving a “foreign” automobile. She bought it right there at the corner of Main and First. That’s in USA so it must be an American car.
My 2000 Silverado has been the best, most trouble free vehicle I’ve ever owned. It has around 170,000 miles on it and it’s still going strong. My wifes 2004 Chrysler Sebring sedan is a great car. My only complaint is, I wish it had just a little more headroom. But, it runs great, and I like the low-slung, sporty appearance of it. Our 2006 Blazer 4×4 gets us around in bad weather. My 2006 Harley-Davidson Sportster is a real kick to ride, and gets around 50 mpg.
Unlike looney leftwing liberals, when I say I believe in the USA, I put my money where my mouth is.
If you like Packards, you need to go check out Afton Station on Route 66 in Afton, OK. Laurel Kane has her collection of Packards on display there, including the only known Packard motor home.
Laurel is a looney leftwing liberal, but she’s still a nice woman.
This reminds me of the chinese. 99% of chinese people dislike japanese people, yet most chinese people insist on buying japanese vehicles.
Exactly!
Bankruptcy would have allowed the companies to get out from under the crushing contracts with the UAW. There’s something seriously wrong when a company has to pay thousands of people to NOT work. The union was committing murder-suicide on the industry. They need new reasonable contracts.
There is a Packard museum in Dayton, OH at a location that had been an original Packard dealership. The have lots of beautiful cars there!
Actually what would happen would be one person will crash his / her personal flying machine(whether mechanical breakdown or user error), someone will blame the manufacturer, there will be Congressional hearings filled with sob stories of how children were hurt or died, resulting in a slapdash law which will over-regulate the manufacturers, resulting in higher prices, resulting in fewer sales, putting the manufacturers out of business.
Just ask the makers of three-wheeled ATVs.
Hypocrisy from the DNC chair? Now you’re going to tell me Obama is a glib fraud and Biden is an idiot.
It can’t be true, right? Just look at the unemployment rate and the deficit. By any objective measure, the worst of Bush was better than the best of Obama.
How can anyone even pretend, much less believe, that these lying bunglers have a clue?
This idiot is God’s gift to conservatism. When a liberal woman uses a hyphenated last name, you know you’re dealing with a radical and you know that she’ll turn off 80% of the people who have the displeasure of having to listen to her. Let’s hope that she’ front and center throughout the coming campaign.
Not true!
I mean, just look at Al Gore’s carbon footprint… oh, wait.
Nevermind.
Oh yeah,another thing… she should enter the next Westminster Dog show. She would probably win the Standard Poodle Division.
Sorry, I couldn’t help myself!
DWS also said that the Repub’s budget is anti-women. So per democrat logic of two wrongs making a right then it’s OK for women to drive a foreign car!
Nothing can trigger a gag reflex faster than seeing a Wasserman standing next to a Pelosi. Two examples of regressives who are the poster women for hypocrisy. I am not going to comment on the looks of either one. You can see for yourself and make your own judgements. But I just want to say that the inner beauty is reflected by the outer appearance. In those two, there is no inner beauty, nor do either of these pieces of garbage have an ounce of common sense between them.
We have a very similar car that we drive on weekends…I sit in the back & mrcakes drives me about.
There can no longer be ANY doubt that Obama is a fraud. IF we had an honest media, Obama would have been exposed and gone by now.
O/T some more…I just watched the DVR of Obama and Netanyahu sitting next to each other after their meeting. When Netanyahu was talking, it showed a close-up of Obama giving him such an unbelievable look of pure evil and hatred like I have NEVER seen before. I replayed it a few times and I am seriously convinced that Obama was raised to loathe Jews and he does to this day. This is a volitile and dangerous situation. And, if Obama had ever looked at me that way, I would have run screaming to the nearest priest for an exorcism. I am not joking.
Long live the Queen!
he calls it Driving Miss Crazy
Are you sure you’re not Indian? In my neck of the woods, the Indian woman sit in the back with their kids while the husband drives the family around.
Is that where you got your strange views on treatment of women? Keep them in the back with the kids when they aren’t waiting on you?
123–LOL
no, I’m pale, blue-white Celtic. And I don’t have children. I have lots of jewelry and shoes and handbags though!
The buy american cry is nonsense. If they make the best product then, yes, buy it. As long as the unions are in control, the auto industry will not be dominated by american companies. It isn’t personal, its business.
BTW, I drive a Ford F-150 because it is an awesome truck, not just because it is an american company.
This ugly a$$ b!tch should stay away from cameras. Can’t stand to see her lying, ugly face.
Must. Avoid. Easy. Joke.
Sorry, spacey, couldn’t resist…
Regards,
Peter H.
the unions in control AND costly compliance in response to overreaching government regulations.
Yes, buy American…..when you can find such. Other than food products, thanks to overbearing unions and stifling government regs, far too much of what we purchase ARE made overseas. Even the Saturn VUE we drive, while assembled in the USA has many imported parts.
A real winner they got there, them demorats.
Alas, that party teems with more like her…and voters to go with ‘em.
Isn’t Fiat buying Chrysler? That pretty much leaves GM and Ford.
I’ve been driving a Subaru legacy for the last nine years. FWIW, a sticker in the side window says it was built in Indiana. Yeah, the parts may have come from Japan…
Spoken like a truly vacuous Jewish American Princess…and, Democrat moron.
Obama appointed her, not for her intelligence, and not because of her Jewish heritage, but because he perceived her as his teleprompter in absentia.
Now that’s an American car!!!!!
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz reminds me of Owen’s wife in the movie “Trains, Planes and Automobiles.” Del and Neal offer to put a heavy trunk in the back of a pickup truck, but Owen yells for his wife to do it: “She don’t mind. She’s short and skinny, but she’s strong. Her first baby come out sideways. She didn’t scream or nothing.”
This is one scary lady. She’ll always look for a fight, so she should “step in it” quite often.
Debbie Blabbermouth-Schulz.
Classic.
So a lot of liberals out there are defending her stance and choice of vehicle as not being hypocritical. They talk about how a lot of foreign cars are actually designed and assembled in the US, along with a lot of the parts.
If this is true (and it is), then why do we need to save GM to save jobs?
I haven’t seen one of the libs here on MM defend this because its really indefensible. I also haven’t seen the same ones that claim we should shout down conservative hypocrisy every chance we get coming in here and shouting this down.
When it comes to “Schultz”, both Ed and Debbie-W are noxious fools, but at least Ed knows she’s a hapless “joke”:
http://theblogprof.blogspot.com/2011/04/msnbcs-ed-schultz-agrees-new-dnc-chief.html
It’s wonderful when they eat their own.
What is it about this little ninny…every time I see her on TV my first reaction is “She needs to take a bath.” After watching for a very few moments I feel like I need to take a bath. Yecchhh.
Debbie is a gift to the Repubs….and yet, the GOP just can’t seem to take advantage of her numerous gaffes….I don’t get it. By the way, owned Jeeps for the last 25 years – made in America – and they’re great vehicles.
And Reintz Priebus (???) is a gift to the dems! I’m sorry, but who gives a name like that to their kid? Not cool. What has Reintz done lately? I have forgotten what the guy looks like. I feel like he took the job, put his feet up on the desk and lit a cigarette as he pulled out a People Magazine to read. Where the h is he?
I bought a “foreign” vehicle years ago. It was made in the USA and contained mostly USA-made parts. I recall a recent article about a vehicle made by GM which consisted of mostly foreign-made parts. I buy vehicles based on quality and safety. I don’t plan to buy any future vehicles from those who recieved bailouts. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz needs to mind her own business.
Ah – the same look was given a year or so ago by his wife in the direction of France’s First Lady.
You folks in the rest of the United States are now discovering what we here in Florida have known all along: Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is an idiot.
I can’t tell you how happy I am the Dems voted this harpie into office as DNC chair. She is so annoying to listen to, in part because of her voice, but of course also because lies whenever her lips move.
But, but…it’s built in this country!
If that’s her take then she will be wrong again.
I have the unfortunate experience of living in a District close to hers, and she has her office in our City Hall complex. can’t wait til they start asking her about her sister who was indicted for taking kickbacks while she was a County Commissioner.
Also her non-response to Obama’s Israel soultion was specifically mentioned in an op-ed in yesterday’s paper. This will not be forgotten by her Jewish constituency which makes up about 50% of her voting base in this district.
She has attached her wagon to a falling star…
Just sayin’ is all…
Whoa, she really came out swinging! Let’s be nice now, with a caboose as big as Moochelle’s, she can’t drive a compact.
I too would like to buy American if that helped our country but I can not buy from the bailout companies that are being guided by our fearless leader. After giving the unions ownership and screwing the bond holders let them suffer, if only there was a ford car that I truly liked would I buy an american car. I prefer to buy cars that are built in the US that at least give some money to some non-union american workers, Honda and Acura specificly. 75% of my cars were made in america unlike my 2002 chevy siverado that was made in ontario canada. And just a point to those making fun/remorse at the black box issue. Since the late 1990′s all cars have black boxes in them, it’s just up to the government when the next step will be taken to data mine them for more of our personal information.
No, we would all be driving Fords. You know, the one American auto company that did not take bailouts.
Talk about stupid!
I believe the plate ‘DWS’ stands for not her name but the name given by her constituents and that is Dim Wit Schultz or DWS.
This Republican drives an American-made Chevrolet Colorado (pre-bailout) pickup truck. My Democrat wife drives a used Korean import. She whines about the gas mileage her 2.7 l V6 gets, and I just grin at the milesge my 2.9 l I4 gets. (My four-banger has more torque and horsepower than her six.)
Buy American.
ECS