Tuesday, August 16, 2011

"The president is in actually remarkably good shape, given that he is still struggling to help pull our economy out of the Republican -- the Republican recession that he inherited...."

so says the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Debbie Wasserman Schultz on CBS's "Face the Nation" when asked if Obama was in political trouble. - The Hill

Democrats are betting that the conservative strand that's dominating the GOP right now will advantage the president in 2012.

"Right now, they have a collection of candidates for president who are busy trying to out-right-wing each other," Wasserman Schultz argued. "Essentially, they are all so similar that they might as well be Legos; they're that interchangeable."