DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz released the following statement on the results of the Indiana Republican primary:
“It’s official: the Republican Party is now indistinguishable from the Tea Party. Tonight in Indiana, the Tea Party drove Sen. Dick Lugar out of the United States Senate and nominated Tea Party candidate Richard Mourdock, a candidate who will fit in well with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Mourdock opposed the rescue of the iconic American auto industry, calling it ‘illegal.’ Because of President Obama’s decisive action, Chrysler would have been liquidated and thousands of Hoosiers would have lost their jobs – including the 4,500 workers at four Chrysler plants in Kokomo, Indiana.
“Unfortunately for Republicans, they seem to only have room for Tea Party candidates. That might explain why Mitt Romney has embraced so many far-right positions like endorsing a budget that would end Medicare as we know it to pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, getting rid of federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and supporting the Blunt-Rubio Amendment and so-called ‘Personhood’ amendments. Mitt Romney called himself ‘the ideal Tea Party candidate,’ and his policies and positions back up the claim.
“The choice in this election could not be more clear. President Obama wants to move the country forward because America prospers when we're all in it together; when hard work pays off and responsibility is rewarded; when everyone, from Main Street to Wall Street, does their fair share and plays by the same rules. Mitt Romney, Richard Mourdock and the rest of the Tea Party Republicans are offering an economic scheme that is familiar and troubling: more budget-busting tax cuts for the wealthy; fewer rules for Wall Street--the same formula that benefitted a few, but crashed our economy and punished the middle class.”