Democratic dudgeon from Wasserman Schultz over Romney’s ‘also unemployed’ remark
by George Bennett | June 16th, 2011
Wasserman Schultz
Romney “chuckled” about his employment status while visiting a Tampa coffee shop and chatting with unemployed people about the economy, The New York Times reported, adding that “The eight people gathered around him, who had just finished talking about strategies of finding employment in a slow-to-recover economy, joined him in laughter.”
Wasserman Schultz was not amused.
Read her comments after the jump…
DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s reaction to Mitt Romney’s ‘also unemployed’ remark:
“Mitt Romney’s comments today at an event with unemployed Floridians that he’s ‘also unemployed’ is inappropriate and insensitive to the millions of Americans looking for work. This comment shows that Mitt Romney – a man who wants for nothing and whose only occupation for more than four years has been to run for President – is incredibly out of touch with what’s going on in our country and around the dinner tables of those who are out of work.
“Being unemployed, Mr. Romney, is not a joke – not to my constituents in Florida or to millions of Americans across the country. Folks in my home state and across the country, who are struggling every day to make ends meet, do not need someone making light of their situation. Equating his run for the presidency with the difficulties of these honest hard-working Americans is shocking and is a reflection of his inability to comprehend the struggles of the American people. The fact is, the failed policies of the past, that he is advocating for, got us into the situation we’re in the first place and Americans want neither a repeat of those policies or the type of out-of-touch and failed leadership Mitt Romney represents.”
June 16th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Screw that ugly hag and her worthless opinion as she is just towing the party line. It is fitting that she is considered the Democrats pit bull since she does resemble a dog.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:26 pm
All I can say is I’m glad we didnt have to be subject to pictures of Wassermans weiner…
June 16th, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Must be true what they say about liberal women. No sense of humor.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
@npgator Keep dragging your party’s line down into the depths of misogynistic woman bashing. That will go over real well in the next election when women realize that Republicans are attacking their rights on every front, and their favorite way to do it is to denigrate them for taking strong positions.
Republicans just hate to see a strong woman stand up to their hypocritical vapidly-moralistic greed.
June 16th, 2011 at 2:44 pm
DWS’s pitbull, Tony Weiner, also is unemployed. Are we allowed to laugh about that?
June 16th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
@Jessica Says…. Haven’t you heard of Sara Palin or Michele Bachmann? I know it’s hard but try to think before you open your mouth and make a fool of yourself.
June 16th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH. HERE WE GO AGAIN..LONG ROAD TO THE ELECTION. FOLKS JUST THINK PLAINLY…ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE 4 OR 5 YEARS AGO? IF YOU DID NOT DO YOUR JOB OR AT YOUR JOB (IF YOU ARE LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE ONE) YOU HAVE NOT PERFORMED UP TO WHAT WAS EXPECTED OF YOU, YOU WOULD BE FIRED. SIMPLE. IF OUR COLUMNIST, GEORGE BENNETT, DID NOT PRODUCE THESE POLITICAL ARTICLES THEN HE WOULD BE UNEMPLOYED. SO WHO SHOULD BE UNEMPLOYED….PRESIDENT OBAMA.
June 16th, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Get a life Debbie. Your constituents are smarter than you think and will not fall for your political propaganda rhetoric which only makes you look like a bitch and Mitt Romney a humorous nice guy.
June 16th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Debbie, what offends me, is OBAMA and his is ECONOMIC COUNCIL smugly and
arrogantly laughing that the ” shovel
ready jobs” were not so shovel ready.
Can’t you address real issues?
June 16th, 2011 at 5:04 pm
@ Constitution 101: Your comment verifies the inherent danger in the misinformation that is propagated by the right wing radio entertainers. I heard that clip of Obama commenting that some of the projects weren’t as shovel ready as they originally thought and a couple of people in the audience chuckled, but the radio host added a roaring laugh track at the end and even subtly mentioned that he did to amplify the effect. You bought it hook line and sinker because you never bother to fully analyze anything before forming your opinion just like the lemming you are. And to npgator, you should really get your eyes checked because your way off base. I could say the same thing about Michelle Bachmann but like your comment that would be mean, childish and untrue.
June 16th, 2011 at 5:54 pm
Jeff Immelt the GE CEO was sitting next to Obama and laughed pretty hard. And he’s sent a lot of American jobs overseas while he’s been on the President’s “jobs council”. In fact most of the corporate cronies that Obama has on his council have put thousands of Americans out of work.
Obama refers to the problems with our economy and 9.1% unemployment rate (which is actually much higher) as “bumps in the road”. Those aren’t bumps in the road those are 14+ million unemployed Americans.
DWS attacks Republicans as not supporting US automakers while she drives 2 japanese cars.
She also says that “under President Obama’s leadership Democrats have turned the economy around”. Really? Under GW Bush unemployment was 5% and Democrats said that was “unacceptably high”.
Wake up. The Democrats are following their Keynesian economic model right off a cliff and you’re following them.
June 16th, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Barb: Get your ample arse off the computer and get me my dinner!
You started out on here at 3pm-ish, then went to the tea bag websites!?!?
I have to go online to get you to log off? Is that what it takes now Barb?
My Gawd, I either need a divorce or a woman who gets out and gets some fresh air once in a blue moon. Barb, you’re turning into a sad sack.
June 16th, 2011 at 8:40 pm
You, little miss priss, are a dimwit!
June 16th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
I agree with Rep. Wasserman Schultz reaction for she speaks about realities that are common to many more of us, our neighbors, our friends, our family.
I USED TO THINK I WAS BETTER OFF 4 YEARS AGO THAN NOW BUT THEN I THOUGHT HOW MUCH BETTER OFF I WAS 10 YEARS AGO AND THEN REALIZED THAT TODAY’S SITUATION IS NOT RELATED TO JUST ME BUT OUR ECONOMY’S DECLINE WHICH HAD BEEN FUELED OVER TIME BY THE RICH GETTING RICHER AND GREEDIER TO THE POINT THAT HAVING MORE MONEY IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH AND THEY TURN TO POWER AND THE CONTROL OF IT BY BUYING THEMSELVES A CAMPAIGN TO GET INTO OFFICE AND MAKE “THE RIGHT” CHANGES.
It is not all about YOU and how much HATE has CONSUMED YOU. There is always HOPE no matter what. THINK where you learned to hate the ways you do – is it really your HATE or someone ELSE’S? No matter how vile and personal your attacks are the majority of AMERICANS that see right through them is growing beyond your controls. There is always HOPE for IGNORANCE.
June 17th, 2011 at 10:45 am
Wow! Now she will have to answer to Obama’s laughing about the lack of shovel ready jobs he promissed. Also, the comment about the 9.1% unemployment being just a “bump in the road” comment by Obama.
I think she put her foot in her nasty mouth!
June 17th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
DWS before this is all over you will also implode. Start acting like a leader and not like some spoiled child.
June 17th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
One has to love GOP plants on every board who shift names but are the same person; it just sends goose bumps up my arm in anticipation.
June 17th, 2011 at 6:59 pm
Pretending your being pinched on the butt isn’t funny Mitt Romney.
Your an, unemployed dirty old man.
Nessus
June 19th, 2011 at 7:38 am
Debbie makes me cringe when her ugly whining face makes my 60″ TV screen.
She makes me ashamed to be a Jew.
June 19th, 2011 at 8:02 am
This humorless, PC bitch has me ready to register as NPA.
June 19th, 2011 at 9:20 am
Well Deb, what are you going to do to help create jobs? Quit? Stop Spending? Cut Taxes? Reduce Government Regulation? Take a salary cut? Cut your own benefits? Tell Unions to stop over promising?
June 19th, 2011 at 9:24 am
@Itsallnotaboutyou: Do you realize DWS, Pelosi, Obama, Soros are all getting rich off of you? Do you think that’s ok? Washington DC is the only market to have job/housing increases, while most others fall. You hate the rich but idolize LIBs that are getting rich. MAKES NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. NO ONE IS BETTER OFF WHEN GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL.
June 19th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Debbie Wasserman Schultz-”HAITI IS FLORIDA’S 69TH COUNTY.”
Just what we need more democrats of the same philosophy which Obama is preaching.
Open borders, let Americans fund the care, the costs of illegals.
June 19th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Did you know Wasserman Schultz was in the top 50 most beautiful lawmakers in the USA!
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=216454&R=R5
Now, ask, who did the polling!
June 19th, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Has Obama’s programs created debt?
Has Obama created jobs?
Has Obama started a 3rd war costing the taxpayers $9 billion a day and costing Americans their lives?
Will Yemen, Syria, Sudan come under the ridiculous KINETIC MILITARY ACTION.
NO transparency, huge debt, no trust in Obama.
We can’t afford more of his LIFETIME judicial appointments. A lingering effect years after he is out of office.
June 19th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Rich getting richer!
Nancy Pelosi’s income increase 62%.
Obama’s income increased also.
Don’t be fooled by their rhetoric. They just want power to usurp the people’s rights. Tell you what to eat, what to drive.
June 20th, 2011 at 10:44 am
man, the pro-Royalist Romney trolls are out in force here.