Not enough: DNC Chair apologizes (not really) for cheapening the meaning of domestic abuse

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz
‘Sorry, not sorry.’

In an update to this post, the disgraceful, shamelessΒ Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, known for her insane, over-the-top, way beyond the bounds of basic civility, has issued a non-apology “apology” of sorts for her vile remarks likening Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) to a physically abusive husband:

Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she used words she β€œshouldn’t have” in her attack against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in which she said he β€œhas given women the back of his hand.”

β€œI shouldn’t have used the words I used,” Wasserman Schultz wrote in a statement on Thursday. β€œBut that shouldn’t detract from the broader point that I was making that Scott Walker’s policies have been bad for Wisconsin women, whether it’s mandating ultrasounds, repealing an equal pay law, or rejecting federal funding for preventative health care, Walker’s record speaks for itself.”

The DNC chairwoman slammed the Republican governor and the GOP during a round-table discussion in Milwaukee on Wednesday. Her remarks quickly sparked outrage.

β€œScott Walker has given women the back of his hand. I know that is stark. I know that is direct. But that is reality,” Wasserman SchultzΒ said, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

She continued, β€œWhat Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch.”

Sorry – her lame “walk-back” was not good enough. While it was refreshing today to see even some in the normally reliably left wing media take her to task for not just what she said, but how she said it, she really should have the decency to resign from her post as Chairwoman. Β But she won’t because, as I noted this morning, this is exactly the type of in-the-gutter public discourse she gets paid to come up with.

So because she won’t resign, I’m calling on people to do exactly what prominent Democrats and their allies in the press would do had this been a Republican: Keep talking about it for the next couple of weeks at least (that’s about the normal timeframe for an MSM scandal cycle, right?). On social media, on your blogs, on political message boards, everywhere you can. Remind people Wasserman Schultz’s brand of “hardball is part of a larger Democrat party election-year strategy – one in which Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC), currently in a fierce battle to try and keep her seat,Β is also taking partΒ of blatantly trying to emotionally manipulate women with baseless, false, in some cases outright reprehensible political and personalΒ attacks against their opposition … because they’re desperate to win in November. Β Of course, this is something they do all the time, but this time around they’ve cranked up efforts to levels previously unseen for a non-presidential election year.Β 

Keep what’s happening, the stunts they’re trying to pull, fresh in everyone’s minds. Don’t let Democrats get away with throwing everything but the kitchen sink again.

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