Debbie Wasserman Schultz: You guys know Romney’s a flip-flopper, right? (Daily Caller)

Speaking to reporters after Saturday’s Republican primary debate in New Hampshire, Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said Republican voters would be wise to question front-runner Mitt Romney’s conservative credentials.

“This is a candidate without any conviction at all, willing to say or do anything to get elected,” she said. “Tonight he talked about how supportive he was of overturning Roe v. Wade, yet just in 2002 he was a candidate for governor who was totally supportive of Roe v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose. I mean, that’s a pretty significant issue to have such a major flip-flop.”

“I think Republican voters need to ask themselves whether Massachusetts elected a conservative Republican candidate for governor,” she continued.

Romney’s perceived insincerity has been a major focus of criticism since he first ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. During his two campaigns for statewide office in traditionally Democratic Massachusetts — for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and for governor in 2002 — Romney ran as a moderate, pro-choice Republican.

After leaving office in 2007 and setting his sights on the presidency, however, Romney moved to the right and left many conservatives wondering if his views on issues like abortion were heartfelt or simply a matter of convenience.

Wasserman Schultz’s comments indicate that Democrats will pick up the “flip-flopper” meme if Romney should win his party’s nomination. But by attempting to exacerbate the divide between Romney and the Republican base, they also re-enforce the notion that President Obama’s allies see his as the strongest and most threatening candidate in the GOP field.

“At this point he’s certainly done everything he can to get as far to the right as possible,” she said. “He’s embraced extremism, he’s embraced the tea party, so he certainly needs to be held accountable for the things he’s saying now.”

“He’ll be held accountable for the Mitt Romney who ran in 1992 and the Mitt Romney who ran in 1994,” she continued. “You never know which Mitt Romney you’ll be running against, but we’ll be running against them all.”

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Republican legal group files ethics complaint against Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Daily Caller)

Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida is the subject of a new ethics complaint filed in the Office of Congressional Ethics. The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) filed the complaint in response to a video the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which Wasserman Schultz chairs, released last week.

As The Daily Caller previously reported, the DNC ad promoting President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act appeared to violate House ethics rules that prevent footage of floor proceedings from being used for political purposes. The 30-second ad, however, featured only footage of the president’s recent speech to a joint session of Congress — not speeches of members of Congress themselves.

Normally, that wouldn’t be a problem for the DNC. But since Wasserman Schultz is a member of Congress, some say the House ethics rules now apply to the DNC.

“This carefully orchestrated political campaign is consistent with a disturbing pattern of President Obama’s misuse of official resources for political purposes,” read the RNLA’s complaint. “Now it appears he has not only misused the resources of his own office, but he has engaged Representative Wasserman Schultz in the misuse of coverage of House proceedings, in direct violation of her ethical duties as a Member of Congress.”

The rule in question is House Rule 5, clause 2(c)(1), which says, “Broadcast coverage and recordings of House floor proceedings may not be used for any political purpose.”

Additionally, House Rule 11, clause 4(b) says that “radio and television tapes and film of any coverage of House committee proceedings may not be use, or made available for use, as partisan political campaign material to promote or oppose the candidacy of any person for public office.” (RELATED: Does a new DNC ad violate House ethics rules?

According to the Office of Congressional Ethics website, once a complaint is filed, two board members may conduct a preliminary review – a process that takes 30 days – to determine if all information available provides a reasonable basis that a violation occurred.

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Debbie Wasserman Shultz: Obama Has 'Turned This Economy Around' (ContributorNetwork)

COMMENTARY | It is fascinating to observe the new DNC Chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz, and the ease with which she is willing to verbalize her interesting thought processes. In my first article of the Florida Democrat, "New DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Shultz Makes Inauspicious Debut," I reviewed her curiously shallow perspective of her own gender. Debbie feels that Obama's pay equity legislation, naming two women to the Supreme Court and the establishment of the White House Council on Women and Girls would be enough to clinch female support for his re-election.

Debbie doesn't seem to think that a poor economy and questionable foreign policies will be of any concern to her fellow females as they step into a voting booth as long as Obama has appointed a few women as judges and started a new girl's club. Of course, that "pay equity" thing isn't of much use if you can't find a job but, what the heck.

Not long after Obama successfully insulted Israel with his demand that they conform to Palestinian demands and return their borders to 1967 lines, the backlash was immediate, causing Obama to back peddle on his inflammatory remarks. Despite the threat from offended members of the Jewish community to withdraw their votes and well as their financial support, Debbie - while launching major damage control measures - simultaneously denied that there was a problem.

"There are Jewish voters, Jewish Americans who are expressing concern about the president's policy," Politico reported the Democratic National Committee chairwoman saying at a breakfast sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. But "to suggest that the president did significant damage to his support in the Jewish community is a gross overstatement."

Well, Debbie has done it again. Appearing on Sunday's Meet the Press, the DNC Chairwoman served up another line that seems to have been pulled straight from a script of Fantasy Island. After pointing out that nearly 60 percent of Americans disapproved of Obama's job performance, that unemployment is up 25 percent, the debt is up 35 percent and a gallon of gas has risen 104 percent, David Gregory asked the curiously ignorant Debbie, "Why should Americans trust Democratic governance on the economy right now and particularly the president's?"

Then, like a slow motion train wreck, the embarrassing exchange unfolded:

DWS: "Because we were able to, under President Obama's leadership, turn this economy around. When President Obama took office -- "

DG: "Whoa, whoa, let me just stop you there. Clearly, the economy has not been turned around. I mean, you just saw those numbers."

DWS: "It, it certainly'"it has -- "

DG: "Americans don't believe that's the case."

Undaunted, Wasserman Shultz continued to bail water in her effort to prove the Good Ship Obama wasn't sinking, insisting that the president's policies had created 2.1 million private sector jobs, most of which she claims occurred in the past six months.

Unfortunately for Debbie, a recent report by The Bureau of Labor Statistics said that the 2.2 million people she may have been referring to were people who were recently counted as "marginally employed" even though they had stopped looking for a job or had simply not participated in the survey to confirm their ongoing status as unemployed.

Furthermore, according to the data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Obama economy has cost 2.5 million jobs since February of 2009.

Debbie Wasserman Shultz, for all of her adorable consistency in fact ignorance, has managed to finally clarify one thing that has left many Americans scratching their heads since Obama's stimulus shot a hole in the economy. At least now we now that when they say "jobs created", they really mean "jobs fabricated."

As for why Obama chose to appoint such an incompetent individual to head the Democrat National Committee during his re-election campaign when public perception of his judgment is already suffering, perhaps that will remain as mysterious as what they meant by "jobs saved."

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American Crossroads launches ‘Debbie Downer’ ad against DNC chairwoman (Daily Caller)

The conservative group set up by former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove is having some fun with a Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

American Crossroads unveiled a video today, “Debbie Downer.” It’s a well cut send-up of SNL’s “Debbie Downer” skit series staring Rachel Dratch. Complete with a finger-dancing jingle, the satirical video is relentless in its takedown of the DNC chairwoman. As one stanza goes:

She’s got all the grace of a punch in the face // she’s a double-down Debbie Downer

With judo-like skill, the video can’t stop laughing at Wasserman-Shultz’s comments about Republicans, which only highlights the video’s message to a comical degree:

Republicans hate all women, you know // They’ve got a plan to bring back Jim Crow // They’re gonna throw us out in the snow //oh, Debbie! Debbie Downer

“With all of her over-the-top negative remarks, new DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has become a gift that keeps giving to Republicans,” said Jonathan Collegio, American Crossroads’ communications director.

(Before calling GOP ‘anti-women,’ Wasserman Schultz politicized Ten Commandments)

So it would seem the group has found a way to turn her frown upside down.

Watch below:

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American Crossroads launches ‘Debbie Downer’ ad against DNC chairwoman (Daily Caller)

The conservative group set up by former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove is having some fun with a Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

American Crossroads unveiled a video today, “Debbie Downer.” It’s a well cut send-up of SNL’s “Debbie Downer” skit series staring Rachel Dratch. Complete with a finger-dancing jingle, the satirical video is relentless in its takedown of the DNC chairwoman. As one stanza goes:

She’s got all the grace of a punch in the face // she’s a double-down Debbie Downer

With judo-like skill, the video can’t stop laughing at Wasserman-Shultz’s comments about Republicans, which only highlights the video’s message to a comical degree:

Republicans hate all women, you know // They’ve got a plan to bring back Jim Crow // They’re gonna throw us out in the snow //oh, Debbie! Debbie Downer

“With all of her over-the-top negative remarks, new DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has become a gift that keeps giving to Republicans,” said Jonathan Collegio, American Crossroads’ communications director.

(Before calling GOP ‘anti-women,’ Wasserman Schultz politicized Ten Commandments)

So it would seem the group has found a way to turn her frown upside down.

Watch below:

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