New RNC Ad Blasts Obama and Debbie Downer on Florida Economy (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, January 30, 2012, 5:23 AM
The Republican National Committee slammed Barack Obama and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz today on their mishandling of the economy.
The Hill reported:
The Republican National Committee is launching a new web video hitting President Obama on the state of Florida’s economy and using footage of one of his staunchest public advocates.
In the new web ad entitled “Not Up to the Job” to be released Monday, the RNC reminds voters that Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) opposed Obama and backed then New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic nomination contest.
The web video shows footage of Rep. Wasserman Schultz praising then candidate-Clinton and leading supporters in a chant of “Hillary.”
On-screen text reminds viewers that “Debbie Wasserman Schultz refused to endorse Barack Obama in the 2008 Florida primary.”
The text then presents statistics about Florida’s economy “four years later, under President Obama” including figures claiming a 9.9 percent unemployment rate in the state, 1.1 million new foreclosures and a 650,000 more state residents below the poverty line.
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RedBeard commented:
Great ad. Short, hard-hitting, pointed, and factual. And aimed at the correct target.
Let’s all focus on this, and stop the bloodletting on our side.
Little Joe commented:
Next to Barack Hussein Obama, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is an incredibly polarizing figure.
raugaj commented:
dws was on Fox this am and she refused to respond to the ad saying that it was in very poor taste. This from and woman that immediately used her friends shooting as a reason to attack Palin. Nasty piece of work isn’t she?
Americanist commented:
Who has the cleanest, most consistently Constitutional voting record, without all the liberal baggage? Who hasn’t cheated on his wife, supported socialized medicine or voted to raise the debt limit 5 times? Who has never voted for an unbalanced budget or a congressional pay raise or voted against the peoples’ right to self defense? Who has actually laid out a plan to cut federal spending in real terms and balance the budget in his first term?
The one and only standing conservative candidate that can beat Obama without being a hypocrite is, Ron Paul.
There is only one big problem. The establishment insiders that chose John McCain and Barack Obama in 2008 do not care if Obama faces anyone on the Republican ballot as long as it is NOT – Congressman Ron Paul. Those who know the insides of the US political machines will tell you that if they were honest but any reasonable observer can see the bias against Paul, not for any real reason except that he stands squarely on the Constitution. That cannot be allowed in a President of the US. Reagan was the last President that gave more than lip service to our Constitution and look what happened to him on March 30th, 1981.
Ron Paul is the authentic Ron Reagan of this election! He has with his votes in Congress , “vetoed” more unconstitutional bills than any other elected official in history.
It is now time to grow up and elect a proven and consistent leader to save this republic while there is still time! Ron Paul is the man to do just that!
Nothing will change with any other! Ignorant and free can never be! Do your own research! Put a high value on your vote in your state’s primary! Do not compromise your liberties or those of your countrymen! Remember, the first Veterans were the founders! Paul is the only veteran running! Veterans, not military-industrial complex talking heads support Paul over all others! Support the Constitution and Dr. Paul before we have neither!
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Patty commented:
She was against him before she was for him. Wasserman Schultz ya yes, the little mopit head.
December 2011
Denial — it ain’t just a river in Egypt. Appearing on Fox News this morning, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz insisted that unemployment didn’t go up in Barack Obama’s term of office, a hilarious argument on several levels. Debbie Downer then lectures Gretchen Carlson that “your narrative doesn’t work any longer,” to which a bemused Carlson responds that she’s just relating the facts:
Here are a few facts that seem to have gotten past Wasserman Shultz as the head of a major political party, and as a member of Congress:
Jobless rate in January 2009: 7.8%. Jobless rate in November 2011: 8.6%.
Number of employed in January 2009, in thousands: 133,563. In November 2011: 131,708
Civilian participation rate in January 2009: 65.7%. In November 2011: 64.0%
Unemployment level in January 2009, in thousands: 11,984. In November 2011: 13,303
Number of people not in labor force, January 2009, in thousands: 80,554. In November 2011: 86,558
The number of jobs has declined almost 2 million during Obama’s term even without accounting for the 3 million-plus working-age adults who joined the population while Obama has been President, while the number of people not in the labor force has risen by six million. To give some perspective to that number, it took this measure six years to add six million people (Feb 2003 to Jan 2009), while it took Obama less than three years to achieve it. It’s also worth noting that this growth in disconnected potential workers and the associated drop in the civilian-participation rate is almost entirely responsible for the published jobless rate being as low as it is, and the exodus of 315,000 workers from the workforce last month is certainly responsible for the drop that Debbie Downer heralds in this interview.
Maybe the DNC should consider having a chair who has some connection to reality. But what fun would that be for the rest of us?
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/12/12/dnc-chair-unemployment-didnt-go-up-under-obama/
She has a tendency to lie a lot, isn’t that a novel idea for the Democrats.
RedBeard commented:
Y’know, Americanist, you’re not gaining any converts, much less friends, with your childish carpetbombing spam attack on these threads.
Patty commented:
OT
Romney Explains Why He Can’t Beat Obama
Perhaps the most egregious of Romney’s one-eighties have involved abortion. He has changed his position on that issue at least three times. During the 1994 Senate race against Kennedy he said, “I believe that abortion should be safe and legal in this country.” In 2001, however, he published a letter in The Salt Lake Tribune in which he wrote, “I do not wish to be labeled prochoice.” If the “evolution” had stopped there, many would accept what could well have been a genuine change of heart. But when he ran for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 he declared, “I will protect the right of a woman to choose under the law of the country and the laws of the Commonwealth.” Now, for purposes of his current presidential campaign, he’s again “pro-life.” How he avoids vertigo while executing so many pirouettes is anyone’s guess.
Presumably, Romney would admonish us that his about-faces are “not worth getting angry about.” That may be the one thing he really believes. What he and his supporters in the GOP establishment don’t get, however, is that real voters take these things very seriously. Those who vote based on abortion and gun rights are justifiably angered by politicians who make promises about which they forget the day after being elected. When Rick Santorum’s tone during last Thursday’s debate betrayed annoyance at Romney’s health care contortions, it was because he actually cares about the threat to basic liberty presented by Obamacare. It’s not an easy thing for a man of genuine principle to tolerate an opportunist like Romney, who obviously sees the issue as just another lever that he can use to hoist himself into public office.
It will, however, be very easy for Obama and his creatures to exploit Romney’s flip-flops in the general election. They will make sure the voters understand that these reversals reveal Romney as just another unprincipled politician willing to say anything to win the election. That the President himself is cut of the same cloth won’t matter. The reporters and bloggers whose job it is to point that out will be dutifully reciting White House talking points. One wonders if, after his resultant loss in November, Romney will find this “worth getting angry about.”
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/30/romney-explains-why-he-cant-be
Sam Stone commented:
Debbie Wasserman Pinhead has proven once again that she is a pinhead.
Patty commented:
When she speaks she even curls my hair. BLABBERING, on and on. Such a hypocrite and showboat. She would be saying the same thing for Hillary had she won. Follow the leader in order to become a cabinet member if Obama is re-elected. Little sheeplet, that is her only skill.
Oh, she won’t be hurting if Obama is re-elected and it is all about her. She needs to be out there defending her lies over and over, again. Make the mopit dance and dance mopit, dance.
That will keep her on her tootsies for a while.
pink tie Republican commented:
What? Debbie Skeezer a lying dope? No way!
Finncrisp commented:
Demomarxists are on the march. They want to put all of us under their heel and we the people need to reject Demomarxists whereever they run for office. They must be destroyed. No possible option except complete destruction.
Barry has so trashed this party that recovery will not start until they reject him after he loses. Which means we must actively work against any Demomarxist to speed the process and leave nothing to doubt.
Jay commented:
The problem with this ad is that it looks like a Hillary for President ad. Is Joe Scarborough working over at the RNC?
gracepmc commented:
And the Florida Republicans have redistricted out Col. West. Go figure.
John commented:
Comparing Ron Paul to Reagan is nuts! Paul is an isolationist, whereas Reagan brought home the Iranian hostages, built up the military, and ended the Cold War.