South Florida Democratic Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has a second job in addition to representing her constituents in her Miami-Dade and Broward Counties – that's being the attack dog for the Democratic party in her role as party chair.
So while the diminutive Representative was on the air Tuesday morning on all three cable networks ostensibly talking about what President Obama should discuss on Thursday night for his big economic address, the reality was she was on to trash Mitt Romney's economic speech that he's giving from Nevada later in the day.
But as might be expected, things got a little hot on the set of "Fox and Friends," though not about Romney, nor the president. No, it got tense when host Gretchen Carlson inquired about her thoughts on Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa’s call for workers to combat the tea party and “take these son-of-a-bitches out.”
This article appears in Sep 1-7, 2011.