DNC Chair slams Republicans for “worshiping on tea party altar”

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http://www.tboblogs.com/index.php/news/story/dnc-chair-slams-republicans-for-worshiping-on-tea-party-altar/

As Republican presidential contenders prepared to square off in a debate at the Florida State Fairgrounds tonight, Democrats held a press conference slamming the eight candidates for “continuing to worship on the altar of the tea party.”

“Throughout the campaign, we haven’t heard a single new idea from the republican candidates and tonight you shouldn’t that to change,” Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz , D-Fla., told reporters at a “pre-rebuttal statement” in a building on the other end of the fairgrounds.

Much of her criticism was leveled at Texas Gov. Rick Perry, the current frontrunner in the national polls, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the previous frontrunner, over their positions on social security.

“Social Security, like Medicare, is something Americans have earned,” Wasserman Schultz said. “We’ve paid for it, we’ve earned it, but Republicans would break that decades old compact with the American people.”


Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/09/12/317368/cnn-tea-party-debate-live-blog/
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8:06: Approximately 75 protesters have gathered outside of the debate venue with signs about protecting Social Security. Some are holding signs that read “Corporations are not people,” referencing statements made by Mitt Romney.

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8:03: Prior to the debate, Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz slammed the eight GOP candidates for “continuing to worship on the altar of the tea party.”

[muntrv]

1. Actually it's more like kissing the tea party butt cheek.

[rfranklin]

2. More like tossing their salad...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=toss%20the%20salad