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

Posted Sep 12, 2011 by Christian M. Wade

Updated Sep 12, 2011 at 05:30 PM

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.”