A recent Miami Herald piece chronicled the multi-tasking phenomenon that is U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She’s the congresswoman from South Florida (Weston) who is secure enough in her Democratic district to moonlight as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee and partisanly abrasive enough to earn the moniker of “Obama’s attack dog.”
The reporter quoted Richard DeNapoli, who chairs Broward County’s Republican Party. “She represents all of the liberal orthodoxy that you can think of on the left,” he said. He only left out that she is Jewish and is originally from Long Island.
Actually, he left out one other detail–and it gets omitted too often by the rest of the media as well. For all of her lockstep liberal bona fides, Wasserman Schultz can play the Cuban card like a Little Havana exile. She refuses to do the right thing on the embargo and won’t hear of further liberalizing of travel restrictions. Her hypocritical rhetoric on Cuban affairs could have been scripted by the Diaz-Balart brothers and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the harridan who chairs the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Relations.
The worst part is that her politically self-serving Cold War take on Cuba is obviously a non-issue for the White House.