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TAMPA, Fla. — Republicans are “desperate to appease the Tea Party,” Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said, hours before GOP candidates were due to appear in a debate co-sponsored by the Tea Party Express.
“Tonight, I think we are likely to hear the Republican candidates for president continue to worship at the altar of the Tea Party,” Wasserman-Schultz told reporters here. Viewers “won’t find a candidate on stage tonight with a plan to do anything but return to the policies that we’re all so familiar with and that got us into this mess in the first place.”
Republicans “would shred the safety net” of Social Security and Medicare, Wasserman-Schultz said in her press conference at the Florida State Fairgrounds. “At least [Texas Gov.] Rick Perry was honest about his hostility toward Social Security, calling it a ‘Ponzi scheme.’… But Mitt Romney was not straightforward about his support for privatizing Social Security, a scheme that would be as dangerous to the future of the program as Rick Perry’s attitude and rhetoric.”
The DNC chairwoman said Romney’s “hypocrisy in galling” in his attacks on Perry over Social Security. “Romney would gamble with our Social Security in the stock market, a scheme that would devastate Social Security and leave seniors twisting in the wind.”
She also promoted the president’s recently proposed $400 billion “jobs plan,” promising that it “won’t add a dime to the deficit, while slamming the GOP as beholden to extremists.
“Each of the Republican candidates in this race is desperate to appease the Tea Party,” said Wasserman-Schultz, who represents a South Florida district in Congress. “They’ve rubber-stamped an ideologically driven agenda to end Medicare as we know it, erode Social Security, weaken middle-class security and eliminate millions of jobs.”
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Al Adab| 9.12.11 @ 6:01PM
Gotta love Debbie. She is the perfect spokesman for the delusional world The Left inhabits. Sadly the rest of us actually live in a real world being made ever more undesireable by her ilk.
SpiralArchitect| 9.12.11 @ 7:52PM
Bah. I was jsut warming up to Howard Dean & his nifty battle cry. ;)
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.13.11 @ 6:10AM
"The Republicans only want to appease the Tea Party. They want to shred Social Security, and Medicare, take away Medicines for the sick, kill our Grandparents, throw children out of schools and pollute the water and the air."
And they REPEAT it, over and over and over and over, again. For 60 YEARS they've been REPEATING this.
GOEBELLS would be proud.
Butch| 9.12.11 @ 6:05PM
In a perverse way, it's kind of funny to watch the left try to demonize "the tea party." The left is used to having high-visibility leaders--individuals--to demonize. Whether by accident or clever design, the tea party is this amorphous, leaderless, anonymous group of un-well-known people who appear at their televised gatherings to be just regular people--which they are. It's hard to demonize someone you don't know.
SpiralArchitect| 9.12.11 @ 7:55PM
Yea, not so effective talking about those guys that said that thing, that time at some place, 'you know who' ...
c. j. acworth| 9.12.11 @ 6:17PM
"Each of the Republican candidates in this race is desperate to appease the Tea Party." If only.
Timothy L. Pennell| 9.13.11 @ 6:13AM
"Now, if you'll excuse me, I have meetings with James Hoffa and Richard Trumka."
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 9.12.11 @ 6:37PM
Dumb-Dumb Debbie says, viewers "won't find a candidate on stage tonight with a plan to do anything but return to the policies,... that got us into this mess in the first place." Republicans "would shred the safety net" of Social Security and Medicare, Wasserman-Schultz said in her press conference, yes some of the "exact" policies that got us into this mess in the first place. And the Republicans got us into this mess in the first place? Does she think at all before she speaks? I'm glad she's the head of the DNC now, she sell the Democratic Party brand so well!!
Did she really say Republicans want to "erode Social Security"? Erode? That's an interesting choice of words!! Social Security is like those 100 year old Covered Bridges in Vermont, after Tropical Storm Lee passed by, it's not eroded, it's completely washed away, it's gone, it done!! It's just that they won't admit to it!! The Democratic Party set this thing up, they lied about it, and they sold this lie, and they won't face the truth that this lie has been exposed for what it is,... a lie. American workers have been robbed blind for decades, by a Ponzi scheme that's falling apart in front of our eyes, and this scheme was set up by the Democratic Party, and they're going to continue to lie about it until the day the checks finally stop. There will be no refund for you, there will be nobody you can sue, you will just have to come to terms with being been ripped off for your entire life!! Sorry about that!! But we meant well!!
Trinacria| 9.12.11 @ 6:45PM
With apologies to the fairer sex who (perhaps justifiably) will regard this observation as sexist and superficial, has anyone else ever noticed the striking dichotomy in appearance between liberal and conservative females?
On one side of the stage we have Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Nikki Haley, Renee Ellmers (look her up...); on the other side we have: Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Maxine Waters, Nancy Pelosi, Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, Sheila Jackson-Lee.
I know - sexist - but perhaps there's a legitimate question here - does one's appearance and, by extension, the attention and validation that one gets inform one's political views (i.e. happy, confident, optimistic vs. jealous, angry, neglected, victimized, pessimistic)?
Just askin'...
Al Adab| 9.12.11 @ 6:49PM
Megyn Kelly or Barbara Walters?
Trinacria| 9.12.11 @ 7:31PM
Elisabeth Hasselbeck or Whoopie Goldberg?
Laura Ingraham or Janeane Garofalo?
Ann Coulter or Rachel Maddow?
The evidence seems to be rather overwhelming...and I think there's a lesson here: Be nice to homely chicks, otherwise they'll grow up to be rabid liberal blabbermouths (there, I said it...).
Trinacria| 9.12.11 @ 7:42PM
By the way, lest I be accused of frank sexism, the same argument could be made for male liberals and their conservative counterparts.
Consider: Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Paul Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, and Marco Rubio VS. Barney Frank, Henry Waxman, Anthony Weiner, Chuck Schumer, Charlie Rangel, Harry Reid, and Janet Napolitano.
Kingofthenet| 9.12.11 @ 6:52PM
Tea Party Debate? More like the Mad Hatters Ball...
Clint| 9.12.11 @ 8:53PM
Kindofanut is The Big Yellow Bus callin' a lemon pie yellow.
Trinacria| 9.12.11 @ 11:14PM
My God, you truly are profoundly stupid! Do you really believe you're being clever and witty?
It's like watching a train wreck; I'm embarrassed for you...
FastJohnny| 9.12.11 @ 8:34PM
I still can't understand what drives the rage and anger behind Wasserman-Schultz's comments. She is one angry intolerant woman.
Conservative View| 9.13.11 @ 9:32AM
RIGHT VS CORRECT EQUALS RAGE
Johnny, it is perhaps easier to understand the rage and anger than you might think. Liberals want to do the right thing - - - always. Cost is not a matter of consideration. If it is the right thing to do, it must be done, cost be damned. That is why liberals can embrace another 400 trillion in a renewed stimulus package.
Conservatives such as myself want to do the correct thing - - - always. That means we plug in the factor of cost. Not just cost in dollars, but cost in jobs, cost in quality of life, etc. That is why Conservatives do not support the President.
Obama is very good at doing the right thing, damn the cost. He is an unabashed failure at doing the correct thing. His path to do the right thing means he must save everyone from everything. Union workers must have a powerful union to protect their "rights", it is the right thing to do. He does not realize that workers in South Carolina need jobs too, and the correct thing is to let them have their jobs as well.
So, when liberals find that their religious belief in doing the right thing is challenged, and challenged effectively, they become enraged. An effective affront against their beliefs challenges them to rethink their beliefs, and that they can not do. Imagine the shock and horror of discovering that your ideas, your plans, your way of doing things has hurt more than helped, impoverished more than raised up. This would be too much to bare for too many liberals.
So, they are enraged. Their very core beliefs are challenged, their power slips away as the sunshine of correct thinking evaporates their numbers. Sad, truly sad. Necessary, but sad.
The hard part is going to be keeping this rage from turning violent. As cost of assistance becomes too great and very difficult choices are made many who have come to believe that Federal assistance is a " social right" will find themselves left out. That is when rage turns to violence. Somehow we need to start doing the correct thing and at the same time avoid a public explosion. That is going to be tough.
Mrs Vito| 9.12.11 @ 9:22PM
The woman's hair is curled too tighlty and its affecting her judgement.
Conservative View| 9.13.11 @ 9:36AM
correction, that should read "- - - another 400 billion - - " not trillion. Please excuse the error.
CV
mrfunn| 9.13.11 @ 10:51AM
Your article title is eye catching. It was not a 'Tea Party Debate'. It was a Republican debate sponsored by CNN and the Tea Party Express.
Republican Rick Perry
Republican Mitt Romney
Republican Ron Paul
Republican Michele Bachmann
Republican Rick Santorum
Republican Newt Gingrich
Republican Herman Cain
Republican Jon Huntsman
The debate is being called a 'Tea Party debate' all over the web and TV.
I wonder why???
David R. Zukerman | 9.13.11 @ 12:32PM
If only we could be certain that Republicans were committed to the values of the Tea Party. I would ask Rep. Wasserman-Schultz to take the "It's a Wonderful Life" test. The protagonists of this Frank Capra movie are banker Henry F. Potter and businessman George Bailey. Where would Bailey be more likely to feel comfortable -- at a Tea Party rally or at a President Obama $35,800 per person fundraiser? Would Potter be comfortable at a Tea Party rally -- or is it more likely that he would dismiss Tea Party people as "rabble?"
Explanation for the venom spewed at the Tea Party by the left and the GOP establishment can be found, I think, in Psalm 37,
generally -- and, in particular, at 37:12.
Jude234| 9.16.11 @ 11:58PM
Debbie Wasserman Shultz is spinning this any way she can to try to make the democrats look better. There is nothing she can do though that will legitimize all her den of thieves is guilty of doing. For starters, obama is a pure fake, with a stolen Social Security number and a pure fake birth certificate, as stated by many graphics and computer experts. You can go here to see the evidence all in one location, and clearly explaubed. http://www.evidencevault.blogspot.com
Jude234| 9.16.11 @ 11:58PM
Debbie Wasserman Shultz is spinning this any way she can to try to make the democrats look better. There is nothing she can do though that will legitimize all her den of thieves is guilty of doing. For starters, obama is a pure fake, with a stolen Social Security number and a pure fake birth certificate, as stated by many graphics and computer experts. You can go here to see the evidence all in one location, and clearly explaubed. http://www.evidencevault.blogspot.com