After
Getting Dismantled By Fact-Checkers For Her Over-The-Top Rhetoric, The DNC Chair
Finally Gets One Thing Right—Americans Disapprove Of President Obama On The
Economy
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DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ
ADMITS OBAMA’S FAILURE TO GET THE ECONOMY MOVING COST DEMOCRATS WOMEN’S
VOTES
In 2010, Women “Defected From The
Democratic Party” For The First Time In Over 30 Years. “Female voters defected from
the Democratic Party in historic numbers. Postelection surveys found female
voters preferred Republican congressional candidates over Democrats, 49 percent
to 48 percent - the first time in at least 30 years that Republican candidates
received a majority of women’s votes.” (Dave Boyer, “Obama
Courts Jilted Female Followers,” The Washington
Times, 6/1/11)
DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “The
Explanation For That Is Really Economic.” “‘The explanation for that is really
economic,’ said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, new chairwoman of the Democratic
National Committee. ‘Women make so many of the economic decisions in households.
And so the struggle economically is really borne by women, especially women who
are heads of their own households.’” (Dave Boyer, “Obama
Courts Jilted Female Followers,” The Washington
Times, 6/1/11)
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THAT WAS A REFRESHING
MOMENT OF HONESTY FROM DWS AFTER A WEEK OF OUTRAGEOUS
DISTORTIONS
DNC Chair Rep. Wasserman Schultz: “It’s
Easy To Throw Bombs And To Be Incendiary, Not So Easy To Sit Down And Actually
Govern.”(CBS’ “Face The Nation,”
5/29/11)
DWS Has
Been Called Out By The
Associated Press For “Attacking Provisions That Do Not
Exist”
The Associated
Press:Wasserman
Schultz Has “Led The Charge” Attacking Republicans With False
Accusations. “Democrats
are distorting the fundamentals of a Republican plan to reshape Medicare,
falsely accusing the GOP of pushing a proposal that tells the elderly ‘you're on
your own’ with health care and that lets insurers deny coverage to the sick. ...
The new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman
Schultz, D-Fla., led the charge this week in an appearance on CBS' ‘Face the
Nation.’” (Calvin Woodward, “FACT
CHECK: Democrats Distort GOP Medicare Plan,” The Associated
Press, 6/2/11)
The Associated
Press: Wasserman
Schultz Has Been “Attacking Provisions That Do Not Exist.” “But Wasserman Schultz and some other
Democrats who accuse the GOP of wanting to ‘end Medicare’ have skipped past the
complicated crux of that debate, instead attacking provisions that do not
exist.” (Calvin Woodward, “FACT
CHECK: Democrats Distort GOP Medicare Plan,” The Associated
Press, 6/2/11)
The
Washington Post’s The Fact Checker Gave Her “Three
Pinocchios”
The Washington
Post’s The Fact Checker Gave
Debbie Wasserman Schultz Three Pinocchios For Her Claim That The GOP’s Medicare
Reforms Will “Throw You To The Wolves.” (Glenn Kessler,
“Wasserman Schultz’s Bogus Claim That The GOP Medicare Plan Will ‘Throw You To
The Wolves’,” The Washington
Post’s The Fact Checker,
6/1/11)
Expert Whom DNC Cited Called DWS Comments
“High-Octane Idiocy.” “We checked with Michael Cannon, director
of health policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, one of the experts cited by
[DNC spokesman Hari] Sevugan as backing up Wasserman Schultz’s claim. Cannon
described her comment as ‘high-octane idiocy.’” (Glenn Kessler,
“Wasserman Schultz’s Bogus Claim That The GOP Medicare Plan Will ‘Throw You To
The Wolves’,” The Washington
Post’s The Fact Checker,
6/1/11)
FactCheck.org
Said DWS “Throws Truth To ‘Wolves’”
FactCheck.org: “DNC
Chair Throws Truth To ‘Wolves’.” (Eugene Kiely, “DNC Chair
Throws Truth to ‘Wolves’,” FactCheck.org,
5/31/11)
And
Politifact Rated Her Claims “False”
PolitiFact Rated DWS
Claim That Paul Ryan’s Medicare Reform Plan Would Allow Insurers To Use
Pre-Existing Conditions As Barrier To Coverage As “FALSE.” (Louis Jacobson, “Debbie
Wasserman Schultz Says Ryan Medicare Plan Would Allow Insurers To Use
Pre-Existing Conditions As Barrier To Coverage,” Politifact, 6/1/11)
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