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Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says She Doesn’t Know the Political Affiliation of Pro-Obama Super PAC

Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says She Doesnt Know the Political Affiliation of Pro Obama Super PAC Priorities USA

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Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she has “no idea the political affiliation” of the pro-Obama super PAC Priorities USA — even thought it was started by two former Obama aides and has received fundraising support from administration officials.

The Florida congresswoman appeared on “Fox News Sunday” and was asked about the super PAC’s now-famous “cancer” ad that implies Mitt Romney was responsible for the death of a former steelworker’s wife.

“First of all, that’s a Priorities USA ad. It is not a Democratic ad. It’s a Priorities USA super PAC,” Wasserman Schultz said. “I have no idea the political affiliation of folks who are associated with that super PAC. … that is not affiliated with our campaign or with the party.”

Still, Wasserman Schultz went on to defend the ad’s substance, saying it “raises facts such as that Mitt Romney when he was CEO of Bain Capital bankrupted companies, laid off workers, cut their benefits and made millions of dollars in profit.”

“That ad points out that there are consequences to making decisions like that that impacted people’s lives in a significant way,” she said.

Former steelworker Joe Soptic says in the spot, released last week, that he lost his health insurance after he was laid off by Bain Capital and couldn‘t pay for his wife’s cancer treatment. It subsequently emerged that Soptic’s wife died five years after he lost his job, and that she had had her own insurance.

Following her Fox News appearance, Wasserman Schultz took to Twitter to clarify her remarks, tweeting: “Clearly Priorities USA is a Democratic SuperPAC. Was trying to state the obvious: we have no control over their activities.”

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Comments (319)

  • Mapache
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:21pm

    Amazing that she can lie with such fluidity. I suspect she uses too much curl gel on her hair and it has leaked into her brain….how stupid does she and her ilk think we are?

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:26pm

      Watched two videos, including this one, when she prepares to lie she swallows, watch for it.

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    • azjoannie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:30pm

      I laugh every time she opens her mouth – and the eye roll is hilarious! Her acting classes need to be taken again. Too obvious!

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:31pm

      She has no problem telling us how ignorant of the facts she is!
      AND we have NO problem believing her!!!!!!!!!

      The troubling part is there are people that do believe her.

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    • historyguy48
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:32pm

      She should have kept her comments to a far more truthful “Duhhhhhhhh”

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    • sinsay7
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:32pm

      the state of california warns that her hair gel causes brain damage

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    • NeoFan
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:58pm

      This women is held up as a genius by democrats. These are the people that think they are entitled to take our liberty and replace it with decisions made by dunces like wasaman.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:20pm

      DEBBYHONEY?
      Just make a audio CD of all your CRAP POINTS,insert it into a mannequin and NEVER appear on TV again.
      HAS DEBBY EVER worked in the private sector?
      Ever written a payroll check?
      ROMNEY SAVED industrial plants—you doofus
      Yeah he made money. LIKE YOU would turn down money???
      HOW much MONEY do you have invested OVERSEAS?
      NaziPeelooski has money OVER THERE.
      Debby—-face the music. You are one flaming *******.
      OMG in Nov 2012

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    • Spankster
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:23pm

      Oh Debbie,Debbie,Debbie,You ask how she lies so easily,it’s because she and the entire Democratic party count on,and depend on the stupidity of they’re supporters. The thing that is surprising to me is how well they know the voters in they’re political party.And Quincysmith…I was going to comment on her swallowing but I’ll keep it clean and leave to others imagination.

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    • angelcat
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:24pm

      It says volumes that she is too dumb to even realize how dumb she sounds when she says stuff like this. Could it be she is actually dumb enough to believe what she says?

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    • MeteoricLimbo
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:31pm

      Deb, Nancy and Harry and Joe…….really, what more needs said.

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    • Look4DBigPicture
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:39pm

      Liar Liar DWS’ Pants are on Fire! I love it that this woman is so pathetic and transparent. As long as they keep allowing her to be the spokesperson for the DNC (Deceptive National Committee) we’ll win hands down.

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    • toto
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:52pm

      Democrats count on stupid, and have enabled our school systems to produce it on a massive scale.

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    • sillyfreshness
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:54pm

      Debbie Wasserman Schultz-lying, “chosen people”, propagandist of the Democratic Party (Communist Party, Bolshevik Party, Worker’s Party, People’s Party, Labor Party or whatever they really are). They are Marxists no matter what they call themselves.

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    • lwillis59
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:55pm

      hopefully the RNC rolls out an AD asap using her own words against her.. don‘t tell me there isn’t scads of tape out there that PROVE her lying out loud lol she has just kept this dispicable add alive for another 24 hours when they have been trying so hard to distance themselves from it…

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    • lwillis59
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:56pm

      “like”

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    • OlefromMN
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 2:07pm

      @QUINCYSMITH

      It’s not the gulp, it’s the stutter. Obama does it too.

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    • Lucci
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 2:28pm

      Amazing you never hear any democrats or media types ask about the employees of all those dealers that closed as a result of Obama’s administration in the auto industry. What happened to their health insurance Debbie?

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    • routnom23
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 2:33pm

      Look, she’s severely IQ challenged, so maybe she really doesn’t know what a 10 year old could figure out in a matter of minutes.

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    • 68Patriot
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:17pm

      QUINCEYSMITH, clarification

      When she prepares to lie her mouth is closed. When her mouth is open, she’s lying.

      68

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    • SLAPTHELEFT
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:33pm

      Im not sure what the devil has promised these people but as Paris Hilton would say-”its hot!”

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:37pm

      Is Allen Grassen her father ?

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    • TH30PH1LUS
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:48pm

      Darth Wasserman is fluent in the language of the darkside. Commies and God-hating baby-killing Liberals are speaking their native tongue when they lie.

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:53pm

      I have a suspicion that DWS is the end result of a failed sex change operation and that her brain was replaced by that of a parrot! I wonder what she will do with all of her free time when she fails to get re-elected?

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    • damnedifwedont
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:01pm

      Agreed. The left’s first instinct is ALWAYS TO LIE.

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    • roagie1
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:02pm

      I would say pretty darn stupid ,, she’s a real pip this one

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    • Gold Coin & Economic News
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:25pm

      OMG, why does this woman have any influence at all? She is one of the most ill informed political tools in modern history. Wow, it is utterly amazing how blatantly ignorant this woman is.

      She is so stupid that she’s actually an asset to conservatives because every time this woman opens up her pie hole she brings another liberal voter to their senses. I’m sure that every speech she gives and every TV appearance she makes there has to be a liberal somewhere that just says, “No way, I’m done with this philosophy. I can no longer be a party to a political belief that has someone this stupid as their spokesperson.”

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    • burnteye86
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:53pm

      It’s fun to watch them squirm while they die. (Politically speaking that is)

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:02pm

      68;

      Excuse my ignorance.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:09pm

      She probably doesn’t know. She is stupid as can be and she talks like she was deaf from birth so she probably can’t hear what anyone is saying. If I thought she actually had a brain I might think she was lying but since I know she does not have a brain I have to assume she is actually just an idiot.

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    • Ray2447
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:46pm

      She appears afflicted by a malady I’d describe as “convenient amnesia” – among other Democrat based maladies. Poor Debbie, even when she remembers and pretends to know something, she’s wrong. :-/

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    • mr.goodvibe
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 5:56pm

      Ease up, she might not be lying, she could be that stupid.

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    • mussidie
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:00pm

      The lying from this bunch really is becoming noticable, just as commenter QUINCYSMITH said! Did anybody else see David Axlerod on This Week on ABC with Stephanopolous (sic?) this morning? I never watch it, (my wife has it on while she’s getting ready for church), but I might start purely for the entertainment of it. He looked and sounded scared to death and a couple of time it actually looked like he was throwing up a little in his mouth! IT WAS SO OBVIOUS HE WAS LYING!!! I swear on my mother’s grave. He could not wait to get out of there. Watch it when you get the chance, it’s bound to be out there. LOL!

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    • FormerLib
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:44pm

      Well,she has confirmed once and for all she is either a liar or an idiot, neither qualities one looks for in a representative. She must make her constituents proud.

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    • Freedombeliever
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 6:53pm

      I’ve always said it and will say it again. The barry administration along with their democrap hacks like Wasserman-Schultz, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi – can do only 2 things well.

      Lie
      and
      Beg for donations.

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    • DoomsdayProphet
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 7:25pm

      it is not amazing It is deplorable. She should just walk away…stay away…under the sea, europe or where ever but not here.

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    • Kevin The Elder
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 10:10pm

      @Mapache. Wow, that’s not scientific but is extremely thought provoking, linking curly hair to some sort of brain malfunction that causes the person to lie or maybe not think normal. Debbie Wasserman…Barack Obama…Eric Holder… Is it possible you’re right? Can the curls be extracting common sense? Hmm, I have to think of those with curly hair that I know…

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    • Aohguy2001
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:52pm

      When thinking of Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, one thinks;
      1. DWS is just plain stupid
      2. DWS is a damn liar
      3. 0r, both 1 and 2 are correct

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    • righthearted
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 12:30am

      Apparently Wasserman-Schultz believes we’re pretty dang stupid! Especially after some outlets have already shown Joe Soptic in another, previous ad specifically for Obama! I don‘t know how anybody who’s been conscious for the past four years could still believe anything these people say.

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    • poster
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 6:45am

      She keeps all of those lies in her HUGE THIGHS!

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    • sweetgold
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 11:09pm

      I know that Debbie is quite intelligent and is a very highly educated woman. I wonder when she is going to use it and let it show?? Oh, I know. She’s too busy trying to make sense of her chosen party to learn ALL about something before she talks !! Bidenesque hmmmm?

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    • its_time_to_arrest_our_government
      Posted on August 14, 2012 at 2:14am

      do any of these ******** ever tell anything but lies? it dont seem so.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:21pm

    They have been caught in another series of lies; proven lies at that, and are running scared. Let the truth be shown for all to see their darkness of heart and bankrupt ideology and morality.

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:31pm

      Alinski 101, the ways justify the means. Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels was the master of the “big lie” tactic in which a lie, no matter how outrageous, is repeated often enough that it will eventually be accepted as truth. Unfortunately 90 days is not enough time, when even the oblama media questions this ad.

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:18pm

      does she ever tell the truth? my feeling is some of these lefties are suffering from mental illness. they wouldnt know the truth if it smakced them up side the head. it is just absurd.

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    • www.TopTheNews.com
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:49pm

      That lady is crazy and has conned her constituents into believing her lies…

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    • Bluebonnet
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:17pm

      She (deb) thinks if she tells lies and misrepresents everything, we’ll all be sprinkled with FAIRY dust and believe her eventually. I just wish she’d spit before talking to get the bacca juice out of her mouth. It’s distracting as all get out. I’m so concerned about the juice in her mouth that I miss everything she says, watching for brown streaks to come down the corners of her mouth.
      The dems put her out there to carry their water, because she’s so proficient at lying and making it sound plausible, but we know who she is and what she does, don’t we?

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    • MIBUGNU2
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 3:52pm

      How can ANYONE believe ANYTHING Liberals say ???

      When Axelrod, Ploofer and Woosermen speak, they all seem
      to have a serious case of acid reflux, especially Axelrod…
      LIES, LIES, LIES and more LIES..

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    • RJJinGadsden
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 8:22am

      QUINCYSMITH, Remember now, Goebbels studied Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Minister, Edward Bernays. So, the Nazis learned it from the Democrats.

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    • QuincySmith
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 10:48am

      RJJinGadsden;

      “Remember now, Goebbels studied Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Minister, Edward Bernays. So, the Nazis learned it from the Democrats.” I know the history, in fact the Nazis learned not from the deomcRATS, but from the PROGRESSIVES!

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  • JUSTANOTHEROPINION
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:20pm

    Debbie, Low Clas, Shultz. No need to say more. Dispicable woman.

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  • sawbuck
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:15pm

    What a twit….
    I don’t remember any liberal giving Slick Willie the credit for all the industries
    that closed their doors do to his Free trade agreements.. ..
    That Caused northern states to turn into the ‘rust- belt’ …
    Thereby putting everyone of their workers on unemployment..
    Thereby causing them to loose their medical insurance..
    How many inadvertent deaths did that cause..?

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  • normbal
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:15pm

    Debbie, you are a lying *unt.

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    • poetopoet
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:58pm

      Let’s not go there, because it’s considered racist term a :BLACKHOLE”.

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  • Mess23
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:15pm

    She lies worse than the Pres…these people are disgusting. How can people, in their right mind, support them?

    Obama must go…

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    • 1TrueOne55
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:28pm

      Double Blind Loyalty with eyes wide shut.

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    • RetiredAmericanNavyTaxpayer
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 4:36pm

      Actually, she lies better than the Preezy. Notice that she doesn‘t indicate that she’s going to lie by preceding it with a string of um, um, um, uh, uh, I, I, um, uh’s. And she looks right at the questioner instead of averting her eyes.

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  • Want our country back
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:14pm

    LIAR, just like,senior Obama campaign advisor Stephanie Cutter, James CarnyVAL, Robert Gibbs, Jen Psaki & let’s not forget Mr Soptic and the whole damned administration.

    I watched the non-stop, at the speed of light, talk-a-thon on the Fox this morning and she never disappoints. The usual talking points. Romney, Ryan, offshore accounts, Caymon Islands but DOESN’T KNOW WHAT POLITICAL ASSOCIATION THIS SUPER DIRT PAC SUPPORTS. Keep talking, all their lies are starting to catch up to them. Slow but starting.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/08/10/Conservative-SuperPAC-Ad-Hits-Back-Cancer

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  • IMCHRISTIAN
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:12pm

    Since the Democrats don’t seem to know anything I hope all are smart enough not to vote for them.

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    • Shasta
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:23pm

      With some difficulty, I have come to the conclusion that the reason Obummer is so popular has nothing to do way anthing more than entitlements. It is more than the liberal’s way of buying votes, it is their way of enslaving half of the country. Do these people who love entitlements really think that under progressive rule, our system is sustainable? 10 years tops, then we all crash and burn.

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    • RollyBones
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:56pm

      Shasta,
      Plutarch said it best:
      \”The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.\”

      Rolly

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  • Sue Dohnim
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:11pm

    Progressivism, the ponzi ideology, the lies have to get greater and greater to maintain the scam or else it collapses under truth, reason and logic……

    There is NO debating with liars….

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  • cookcountypatriot
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:11pm

    i hope they keep that turd out there talking…she,s perfect for thier hate machine and that hate machine is dooming thier master…thank god!

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  • Tigress1
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:10pm

    I almost died laughing when John Roberts brought up the subject of Harry Reid and Romney’s taxes. Schultz said “I’m so glad that you brought this up. This issue that Harry Reid raised was not raised by Harry Reid.“ John Roberts should have stopped her at that moment and said ”Woman, do you even hear yourself talking?”

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  • COFemale
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:10pm

    May I be one of many to say she is an FN idiot.
    “Still, Wasserman Schultz went on to defend the ad’s substance, saying it “raises facts such as that Mitt Romney when he was CEO of Bain Capital bankrupted companies, laid off workers, cut their benefits and made millions of dollars in profit.”

    Hey stupid venture capitalist/private equity firms do not go in to purposely bankrupt companies and lay off workers unless absolute necessary. Generally, they go in when a company is on their last leg and would be closing anyway. That would be a “corporate raider”, which is entirely different.

    I swear Democrats have no business sense; they should be forbidden by law by handling money and owning businesses. Lets pull an Atlas Shrugged on them.

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  • Mandors
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:09pm

    Let’s stop calling them Democrats and start calling them what they are: Liars.

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  • Mike Benton
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:07pm

    This woman lies when the truth would do them more good; all she had to say was that it was a serious mistake and we denounce it.

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  • woodyee
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:06pm

    Debbie Wasserman Schultz doesn‘t even know who’s hand wiped her arse this morning, nor where the paper came from.

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    • Bluefish49
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:09pm

      like I always say….if it comes from the mouth of a Democrat it is usually a lie.

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  • countrygirl56
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:03pm

    Washerwoman-Schultz is…say it with me…a L-I-A-R!!!!!

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  • grannyjojo
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:03pm

    I’m tired of people being PC…..Wasserman lied, pure and simple. That makes her a liar. I’d call her that to her face. And I don’t care WHAT political affiation you have, STOP lying.

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  • dissentnow
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:02pm

    I think that Neal Boortz said it best: “she’s Kenny G with breasts”

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  • ricckky
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:02pm

    Again–The DEVIL’S SPAWN—-We will defeat this crap through the truth and not lies like the dems only know!!!!!!!

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    • michael48
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:06pm

      this is the best of the dem-wit par-ta…lying , absolutely clueless and willing to provide proof….

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  • Margyt
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:02pm

    This woman is unbelievable (in every sense of the word).

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    • TonyFox
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 5:35am

      Her problem is to much of self abuse.

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    • TonyFox
      Posted on August 13, 2012 at 5:37am

      The best part of her ran down her fathers leg.

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  • GeorgieJo
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:01pm

    I HAD NO IDEA how horribly STUPID DebbyBlabbymouthSchultz is.
    WAIT. Yes I already KNEW THAT.
    KEEP TALKING Debs—–You continue to show how the Libs-Proggys are so delusional.
    Hard to think you are a mom….Geeze you try to brainwash them too?

    R&R in Nov 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • freenj
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:00pm

    This is the caliber of Congress critters that serve our Nation, pitiful, downright pitiful!

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  • CatB
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:59am

    Debbie Blabermouth Schultzzzy .. is nothing but a LIAR … if her lips are moving she is LYING .. please Florida we can do better .. throw this woman OUT … You can help!

    http://www.karenforcongress.com/

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  • LIBSALWAYSLIE
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:57am

    I saw this morning. Debbie Wassersnot is just one idiotic liberal talking point after another. I really despise this low life lying piece of garbage. She has no class, no morals, no ethics and no decency.

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 12:12pm

      She is a DemocRAT … through and through.

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  • PATTY HENRY
    Posted on August 12, 2012 at 11:55am

    Right, I believe that Debbie, Uh Huh. SO you have NO control over these lies and yet, you can’t condemn their lies either…right??? Dope.

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    • RaydocX
      Posted on August 12, 2012 at 1:55pm

      She is either clueless, and so is not qualified for any position in government or advising politicians, OR she is a liar of sociopathic etiology and so should not be consider for public office or a reputable advisor for said people…

      And while tempting to argue ‘they all are’, I submit they should not be so, and have not always been…

      As Adolf was directing the German nation into fascism, we’re there commentators so blindly offering devotion instead of valid criticism?

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