Debbie Wasserman Schultz Up to Her Old Deceptive Tricks

The Palm Beach Post gets high marks for catching on to Debbie Wasserman Schultz's attempt at "a bit of deception" Monday when she tried to criticize fellow Floridian Marco Rubio ahead of his State of the Union rebuttal tonight.

The story is reported in the Washington Examiner.

In a conference call with reporters, the Democratic National Committee chairwoman called on Annette Capella, described as a "Medicare recipient from Florida," to warn of the "extreme budget priorities" they think Rubio will discuss in his response to President Obama's address.

Nobody fell for Capella's "lengthy and unflattering statement" that Rubio would make life more difficult for seniors by supporting a plan to alter Medicare by reducing benefits.

It turns out, however, that Capella is not exactly your standard Medicare-dependent Floridian. She's the Democratic Party's state committeewoman for St. Johns County.

When asked for an explanation as to Capella's identity, Wasserman Schultz didn't answer but deferred to Cappella, who fessed up.

Times change but sometimes people don't: Wasserman Schultz strikes me as the same fork-tongued trickster she was during the 2012 election campaign.