Following the Republican presidential debate held in Rochester, Michigan tonight, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement:
“By now, you’d think the Republican presidential candidates would have come up with at least one new idea to put Americans back to work, but all we heard tonight was more of the same: more plans to help big corporations and the wealthiest few at the expense of middle-class families. We heard Mitt Romney fail to explain why, when the U.S. auto industry was on the brink of collapse, he said we should simply ‘let Detroit go bankrupt’—a course of action that would have put 1.4 million Americans’ jobs on the line. It’s an appalling proposal, but coming from someone who has been all over the map on President Obama’s payroll tax cut that would give back $1,500 to the typical middle-class family, belittling it last month and tonight claiming to support it, should we really be surprised?
“Apparently Mitt Romney and the rest of the GOP field didn’t notice the results of last night’s election, in which voters across the country delivered a wholesale repudiation of the Republican Party’s failed agenda. From pushing a philosophy that balances the budget on the backs of the middle class to putting anti-women, anti-worker, anti-immigrant and anti-voters’ rights initiatives and candidates on the ballot in several different states, Republicans’ out-of-touch policies all failed to gain traction with the voters. The voices of the American people were clear last night, and will be clear in the 2012 election—they want real solutions to create jobs and restore our economic security, not more distractions from Republicans who have no plan for moving our country forward.”
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