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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Second ethics complaint to be filed against Wasserman Schultz over DNC ad (Daily Caller)

The Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) will submit a new ethics complaint against Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, The Daily Caller has learned.

The complaint, which will be filed on Thursday with the Office of Congressional Ethics, takes issue with DNC ads that appear to violate House rules.

Thursday’s complaint will be the second the RNLA has leveled at Wasserman Schultz. Earlier this week the group sent a letter to the OCE about a 30-second ad touting President Barack Obama’s jobs plan. The video featured footage from Obama’s Sept. 8 speech to a joint session of Congress.

House ethics rules prohibit members of Congress from using footage of official House proceedings for political purposes.

The letter that will be sent Thursday doubles down on the original complaint, targeting newly-released Spanish-language ads in Tampa, Denver, Miami and Las Vegas. The ads proclaim in Spanish: “In the face of Republicans, the President can’t do it alone. Read the plan. Stand together for more jobs.”

The RNLA letter calls for an immediate investigation by OCE and the House Ethics Committee. (RELATED: Second ethics complaint to be filed against Wasserman Schultz for DNC ad)

“The Obama Administration, the DNC and the Democrat leadership in the House believe in rules only as they apply to others,” RNLA Chairman David Norcross said in a statement.

“At a time when the president and the House Minority Leader repeatedly plead for bi-partisanship they spare no effort to be confrontational wherever and whenever possible,” Norcross said. “They certainly don’t let House rules stand in their way.”

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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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To DNC's Wasserman Shultz, Republicans' record is 'antiwoman' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Democratic Party chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz took charge of the Democratic National Committee in May. In 1992, at age 26, she became the youngest woman ever elected to the Florida House. In 2004, she became the first Jewish congress-woman elected from her state. She was the guest speaker at the May 26 Monitor breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Whether President Obama permanently damaged his standing with Israel's supporters by suggesting peace negotiations be based on Israel's 1967 borders with adjustments:

"To suggest that the president did significant damage to his support in the Jewish community is a gross overstatement."

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Partisan elements in Middle East policy:

"We need to make sure that Israel never becomes a partisan issue.... Unfortunately, I think there are organizations that claim to be pro-Israel that are partisan first and pro-Israel second.... The way the Republican Jewish Coalition has conducted itself is they put their Republicanism in front of their pro-Israel stance."

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Whether the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will be fast and deep enough to satisfy the left wing of the Democratic Party:

"I am not concerned at all.... If you asked constituents like mine if they would like to see us get out of Afghanistan, they would say yes.... So far, I have seen the voters being willing to give his [Mr. Obama's] plan an opportunity to work.... I don't see any indication that [the president] would draw a primary challenge over it."

The Republican Party's approach to women:

"Their third most important priority, by indication of it being HR3, was getting rid of ... Planned Parenthood funding [and] redefining rape so that you could not get access to an abortion paid with federal funds unless you were forcibly raped, so statutory rape did not count, date rape didn't count.... So if you look on balance at their entire record, their record is antiwoman. Their record is a war on women, and it is a priority for them."

Democratic support for the auto industry:

"You've got the Big Three automakers who are profitable for the first time since 2004 ... and the loans being paid back by Chrysler, by GM.... If it were up to the candidates running for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the automobile industry in America go down the tubes."

Made in America:

"We need to focus on making it in America again. And there are multiple meanings to that. [Possible GOP presidential candidates] Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman ... I am concerned about their commitment to American exceptionalism."

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To DNC's Wasserman Shultz, Republicans' record is 'antiwoman' (The Christian Science Monitor)

Democratic Party chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz took charge of the Democratic National Committee in May. In 1992, at age 26, she became the youngest woman ever elected to the Florida House. In 2004, she became the first Jewish congress-woman elected from her state. She was the guest speaker at the May 26 Monitor breakfast in Washington, D.C.

Whether President Obama permanently damaged his standing with Israel's supporters by suggesting peace negotiations be based on Israel's 1967 borders with adjustments:

"To suggest that the president did significant damage to his support in the Jewish community is a gross overstatement."

RELATED: President Obama in Afghanistan

Partisan elements in Middle East policy:

"We need to make sure that Israel never becomes a partisan issue.... Unfortunately, I think there are organizations that claim to be pro-Israel that are partisan first and pro-Israel second.... The way the Republican Jewish Coalition has conducted itself is they put their Republicanism in front of their pro-Israel stance."

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Whether the US withdrawal from Afghanistan will be fast and deep enough to satisfy the left wing of the Democratic Party:

"I am not concerned at all.... If you asked constituents like mine if they would like to see us get out of Afghanistan, they would say yes.... So far, I have seen the voters being willing to give his [Mr. Obama's] plan an opportunity to work.... I don't see any indication that [the president] would draw a primary challenge over it."

The Republican Party's approach to women:

"Their third most important priority, by indication of it being HR3, was getting rid of ... Planned Parenthood funding [and] redefining rape so that you could not get access to an abortion paid with federal funds unless you were forcibly raped, so statutory rape did not count, date rape didn't count.... So if you look on balance at their entire record, their record is antiwoman. Their record is a war on women, and it is a priority for them."

Democratic support for the auto industry:

"You've got the Big Three automakers who are profitable for the first time since 2004 ... and the loans being paid back by Chrysler, by GM.... If it were up to the candidates running for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the automobile industry in America go down the tubes."

Made in America:

"We need to focus on making it in America again. And there are multiple meanings to that. [Possible GOP presidential candidates] Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Jon Huntsman ... I am concerned about their commitment to American exceptionalism."

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