DCCC Claims To Be Supporting Social Security While Protecting Social Security Opponents

Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the DCCC-- she's already the de facto head of it now in anticipation of Van Hollen taking the blame for the rapidly approaching bloodbath-- are desperate for money to hold onto as many of their highly unpopular, and even more highly endangered, Blue Dogs. We saw in Creigh Deeds' case what happens when conservative Democrats try to woo Republicans and independent conservatives by stabbing the base in the back. The base stays home. Blue Dogs who have spent most of 2009 voting on the other side of the aisle-- particularly Travis Childers (MS), Bobby Bright (AL), Harry Mitchell (AZ), Walt Minnick (ID), Glenn Nye (VA), Jane Harman (CA), Frank Kratovil (MD), Baron Hill (IN), Mike Ross (AR), Betsy Markey (CO), John Barrow (GA) and Allen Boyd (FL)-- are in grave jeopardy of losing their seats, either in primaries or in the general election.

A mark of the insider desperation became apparent today when Steny Hoyer's office allegedly offered Florida state Senator Al Lawson a job at the Dept. of Agriculture if he ends his primary against Boyd, who a recent poll shows him beating by 6 points. I'll get back to the DCCC quest for cash in a moment but, just for context, keep in mind that when Bush attempted to gut Social Security, the only Democrat he could get to co-sponsor his "bipartisan" bill was... Allen Boyd. The DCCC is not just attempting to protect Boyd, they're attempting to replicate him, pushing an equally unsavory conservative, Lori Edwards in FL-12 and trying to drive a real Democrat, Doug Tudor, out of the race. Boyd, Wasserman Schultz, Hoyer and Patrick Murphy (the liaison between the Blue Dogs and the DCCC) have been writing checks to Edwards' campaign and then claiming she's more "viable" than Tudor because she raised more money, even though Florida media sees right through their scam and has termed Lori Edwards a fundraising flame-out.

So to work all their shenanigans and guarantee that both the Democratic caucus and the House are more conservative in 2011, the DCCC is constantly tweeting for cash and sending out e-mails begging grassroots progressives to send them money they can then use to destroy grassroots and progressive candidates. Here's a tweet from yesterday, followed by an e-mail from Jon Vogel the DCCC Executive Director:

Howard --

Congressional Republicans are blindly following Sarah Palin, her merry band of Tea Partiers and special interest fat cat friends right off the cliff by publicly calling for the end of Social Security and Medicare as we know it. [Note from DWT: he apparently forgot to mention Allen Boyd here.]

Well we'll let them make their bed, and make sure they lie in it. Help us hold every crazy, Social Security killing wing-nut Republican accountable for every word they say. [Note from DWT: he apparently forgot to mention Allen Boyd here too.]

That's where you come in. The DCCC is launching an advertising campaign while Republicans are home in their districts for Presidents Day.

Help me raise $50,000 before Monday, February 15th - Presidents Day - so the DCCC can run hard hitting ads while Republicans are home in their districts and hold them accountable for what they're saying about Social Security and Medicare.

It's engaged grassroots Democrats like you who are standing up to the GOP's radical plans and exposing their double-talk, misleading rhetoric and distortions.

Earlier this week, thanks to you, over 30,000 DCCC supporters of our Fact Check FOX team signed our Stand Up To Sarah Petition - calling out FOX News' newest political pundit for her smears and pathetic attempts to shift blame for our current economic mess from the failed policies of George Bush to Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats.

We're not going to let that happen. And, we're doing everything in our power to be sure voters are fully aware of what Tea Party Republicans and their special interest enablers are up to.

Help the DCCC raise $50,000 by Monday, February 15th to hold Republicans accountable by running ads in their districts while they're home for Presidents Day.

Republicans are aggressively pushing to turn over Social Security to the same Wall Street banks that ruined our economy and give control of Medicare to the health insurance industry.

The Republicans' budget is a crazy radical roadmap leading straight back into the ditch that Bush dug for us and a dead end for Medicare for our seniors. If Republicans and their Tea Party allies gain control of Congress in November's election, these radical plans will be put into action.

Nothing would make GOP special interest donors in corporate boardrooms across America happier. The popping champagne corks would break the sound barrier.

Stand with me and the DCCC against Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, the Republican special interests and their dangerous plans for America's future. Contribute today.

Aside from leaving out Boyd's enthusiasm for gutting Social Security, Vogel also neglected to even mention Paul Ryan-- who the DCCC inexplicably protects year after year and is doing it again this year-- the author of the latest initiative to gut Social Security the DCCC claims to be trying to preserve. Ryan is a potentially vulnerable congressman in a southeast Wisconsin district that went for Obama but he's heavily financed by Wall Street and the grassroots Democrat in the race, Paulette Garin, is having a hard time getting her staunchly pro-working family message out while the DCCC showers money on reactionary Blue Dogs down South while studiously ignoring-- if not undermining-- her. Like many grassroots organizations, Blue America is offering an alternative to wasting money on the pernicious DCCC. You can give directly to candidates like Paulette Garin and to Doug Tudor and you can send the DCCC a message while fighting against our real enemies-- conservatives, regardless of which party they belong to.