After Getting Dismantled By Fact-Checkers For Her Over-The-Top Rhetoric, The DNC Chair Finally Gets One Thing Right—Americans Disapprove Of President Obama On The Economy

DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ ADMITS OBAMA’S FAILURE TO GET THE ECONOMY MOVING COST DEMOCRATS WOMEN’S VOTES 

In 2010, Women “Defected From The Democratic Party” For The First Time In Over 30 Years. “Female voters defected from the Democratic Party in historic numbers. Postelection surveys found female voters preferred Republican congressional candidates over Democrats, 49 percent to 48 percent - the first time in at least 30 years that Republican candidates received a majority of women’s votes.” (Dave Boyer, “Obama Courts Jilted Female Followers,” The Washington Times, 6/1/11)

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “The Explanation For That Is Really Economic.” “‘The explanation for that is really economic,’ said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. ‘Women make so many of the economic decisions in households. And so the struggle economically is really borne by women, especially women who are heads of their own households.’” (Dave Boyer, “Obama Courts Jilted Female Followers,” The Washington Times, 6/1/11)

THAT WAS A REFRESHING MOMENT OF HONESTY FROM DWS AFTER A WEEK OF OUTRAGEOUS DISTORTIONS 

DNC Chair Rep. Wasserman Schultz: “It’s Easy To Throw Bombs And To Be Incendiary, Not So Easy To Sit Down And Actually Govern.” (CBS’ “Face The Nation,” 5/29/11) 

DWS Has Been Called Out By The Associated Press For “Attacking Provisions That Do Not Exist” 

The Associated Press: Wasserman Schultz Has “Led The Charge” Attacking Republicans With False Accusations. “Democrats are distorting the fundamentals of a Republican plan to reshape Medicare, falsely accusing the GOP of pushing a proposal that tells the elderly ‘you're on your own’ with health care and that lets insurers deny coverage to the sick. ... The new chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., led the charge this week in an appearance on CBS' ‘Face the Nation.’” (Calvin Woodward, “FACT CHECK: Democrats Distort GOP Medicare Plan,” The Associated Press, 6/2/11)

The Associated Press: Wasserman Schultz Has Been “Attacking Provisions That Do Not Exist.” “But Wasserman Schultz and some other Democrats who accuse the GOP of wanting to ‘end Medicare’ have skipped past the complicated crux of that debate, instead attacking provisions that do not exist.” (Calvin Woodward, “FACT CHECK: Democrats Distort GOP Medicare Plan,” The Associated Press, 6/2/11)

The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker Gave Her “Three Pinocchios”

The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker Gave Debbie Wasserman Schultz Three Pinocchios For Her Claim That The GOP’s Medicare Reforms Will “Throw You To The Wolves.” (Glenn Kessler, “Wasserman Schultz’s Bogus Claim That The GOP Medicare Plan Will ‘Throw You To The Wolves’,” The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker, 6/1/11)

• The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker:“Wasserman Schultz’s Bogus Claim That The GOP Medicare Plan Will ‘Throw You To The Wolves’.” (Glenn Kessler, “Wasserman Schultz’s Bogus Claim That The GOP Medicare Plan Will ‘Throw You To The Wolves’,” The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker, 6/1/11)
• The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker: “But Wasserman Schultz is jumping to conclusions — not to mention scaremongering metaphors — to describe provisions in the GOP Medicare plan that just do not exist.” (Glenn Kessler, “Wasserman Schultz’s Bogus Claim That The GOP Medicare Plan Will ‘Throw You To The Wolves’,” The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker, 6/1/11)

Expert Whom DNC Cited Called DWS Comments “High-Octane Idiocy.” “We checked with Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, one of the experts cited by [DNC spokesman Hari] Sevugan as backing up Wasserman Schultz’s claim. Cannon described her comment as ‘high-octane idiocy.’” (Glenn Kessler, “Wasserman Schultz’s Bogus Claim That The GOP Medicare Plan Will ‘Throw You To The Wolves’,” The Washington Post’s The Fact Checker, 6/1/11)

FactCheck.org Said DWS “Throws Truth To ‘Wolves’" 

FactCheck.org: “DNC Chair Throws Truth To ‘Wolves’.” (Eugene Kiely, “DNC Chair Throws Truth to ‘Wolves’,” FactCheck.org, 5/31/11)

• FactCheck.org: “Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz falsely claimed that seniors with preexisting medical conditions would be denied Medicare coverage under the GOP's plan. The House GOP plan specifically says insurance companies “must agree to offer insurance to all Medicare beneficiaries.’” (Eugene Kiely, “DNC Chair Throws Truth to ‘Wolves’,” FactCheck.org, 5/31/11)
• FactCheck.org: “She also repeated a false Democratic talking point that future beneficiaries — those who are now younger than 55 — would be left on their own to buy insurance in the private market.” (Eugene Kiely, “DNC Chair Throws Truth to ‘Wolves’,” FactCheck.org, 5/31/11)
• FactCheck.org: “She is simply wrong to say that the GOP plan would allow insurance companies to ‘throw you to the wolves and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for preexisting conditions.’” (Eugene Kiely, “DNC Chair Throws Truth to ‘Wolves’,” FactCheck.org, 5/31/11)

And Politifact Rated Her Claims “False” 

PolitiFact Rated DWS Claim That Paul Ryan’s Medicare Reform Plan Would Allow Insurers To Use Pre-Existing Conditions As Barrier To Coverage As “FALSE.” (Louis Jacobson, “Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Ryan Medicare Plan Would Allow Insurers To Use Pre-Existing Conditions As Barrier To Coverage,” Politifact, 6/1/11)

• PolitiFact: “We Rate Her Statement False.” “Wasserman Schultz is free to criticize the Ryan plan on any number of grounds, but in her comment, she went too far. Both the budget plan that passed the House and its predecessor, Ryan-Rivlin, specifically noted that coverage could not be prevented by a pre-existing condition. It may be easier to say you’ll bar ‘cherry picking’ patients than it is to put it into practice, but Ryan has made his intentions consistently clear. We rate her statement False.” (Louis Jacobson, “Debbie Wasserman Schultz Says Ryan Medicare Plan Would Allow Insurers To Use Pre-Existing Conditions As Barrier To Coverage,” Politifact, 6/1/11)