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It is one thing and bad enough for the Lamestream Media to Label Tea Party believers as terrorists.
It is even worse when members of Congress do so.
It is quite another altogether when the sitting Vice President of the United States of America calls us terrorists. The man who is but a heartbeat away from the most powerful position on Earth. To liken the people he is supposed to represent to the world, his fellow citizens, to those who would crash planes into buildings and blow them out of the air. Who explode VBIEDs at Government offices and randomly shoot children at a camp.
This is no mere gaffe on his part. Not just rhetoric. There is no way it can be.
When he shows such little regard for freedom of speech and opinion, especially when presented in a peaceful if boisterous voice, he shows he is not fit to lead these very people should the moment arise.
This is unconscionable and inexcusable.
I believe we should DEMAND THE RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF JOE BIDEN FROM THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IMMEDIATELY. By whatever (legal) means possible.
Politico:
Biden: Tea partiers like 'terrorists'
By JONATHAN ALLEN & JOHN BRESNAHAN | 8/1/11 4:07 PM EDT Updated: 8/1/11 4:58 PM EDT
Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit.
Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.
“We have negotiated with terrorists,” an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”
Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists,” according to several sources in the room.
Biden’s office declined to comment about what the vice president said inside the closed-door session.
Earlier in the day, Biden told Senate Democrats that Republican leaders have “guns to their heads” in trying to negotiate deals.
The vice president’s hot rhetoric about tea party Republicans underscored the tense moment on Capitol Hill as four party leaders in both chambers work to round up the needed votes in an abbreviated time frame. The bill would raise the debt limit by as much as $2.4 trillion through the end of next year and reduce the deficit by an equal amount over the next decade.
Democrats had no shortage of colorful phrases in wake of the deal.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) called it a “Satan sandwich,” and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) called seemed to enjoy the heat analogy, saying: “the Tea Partiers and the GOP have made their slash and burn lunacy clear, and while I do not love this compromise, my vote is a hose to stop the burning. The arsonists must be stopped.
The deal was consummated Sunday night, the text of the bill was posted in the wee hours of Monday morning, and the House was expected to vote first on it Monday afternoon or evening. But there are still plenty of concerns in both parties and in both chambers.
Liberal Democrats have had the most averse reaction to the plan, which ensures between $2.1 trillion and $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade without requiring any of it to come from tax increases.
Biden told Democratic lawmakers that the deal would take away the tea party’s “weapon of mass destruction” — the threat of a default on U.S. debt obligations.
“They have no compunction about blowing up the economy to get what they want,” Doyle told POLITICO after the meeting.
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Outrageous
It is one thing and bad enough for the Lamestream Media to Label Tea Party believers as terrorists.
It is even worse when members of Congress do so.
It is quite another altogether when the sitting Vice President of the United States of America calls us terrorists. The man who is but a heartbeat away from the most powerful position on Earth. To liken the people he is supposed to represent to the world, his fellow citizens, to those who would crash planes into buildings and blow them out of the air. Who explode VBIEDs at Government offices and randomly shoot children at a camp.
This is no mere gaffe on his part. Not just rhetoric. There is no way it can be.
When he shows such little regard for freedom of speech and opinion, especially when presented in a peaceful if boisterous voice, he shows he is not fit to lead these very people should the moment arise.
This is unconscionable and inexcusable.
I believe we should DEMAND THE RESIGNATION OR REMOVAL OF JOE BIDEN FROM THE OFFICE OF VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IMMEDIATELY. By whatever (legal) means possible.
Politico:
Biden: Tea partiers like 'terrorists'
By JONATHAN ALLEN & JOHN BRESNAHAN | 8/1/11 4:07 PM EDT Updated: 8/1/11 4:58 PM EDT
Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit.
Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.
“We have negotiated with terrorists,” an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”
Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists,” according to several sources in the room.
Biden’s office declined to comment about what the vice president said inside the closed-door session.
Earlier in the day, Biden told Senate Democrats that Republican leaders have “guns to their heads” in trying to negotiate deals.
The vice president’s hot rhetoric about tea party Republicans underscored the tense moment on Capitol Hill as four party leaders in both chambers work to round up the needed votes in an abbreviated time frame. The bill would raise the debt limit by as much as $2.4 trillion through the end of next year and reduce the deficit by an equal amount over the next decade.
Democrats had no shortage of colorful phrases in wake of the deal.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) called it a “Satan sandwich,” and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) called seemed to enjoy the heat analogy, saying: “the Tea Partiers and the GOP have made their slash and burn lunacy clear, and while I do not love this compromise, my vote is a hose to stop the burning. The arsonists must be stopped.
The deal was consummated Sunday night, the text of the bill was posted in the wee hours of Monday morning, and the House was expected to vote first on it Monday afternoon or evening. But there are still plenty of concerns in both parties and in both chambers.
Liberal Democrats have had the most averse reaction to the plan, which ensures between $2.1 trillion and $2.4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade without requiring any of it to come from tax increases.
Biden told Democratic lawmakers that the deal would take away the tea party’s “weapon of mass destruction” — the threat of a default on U.S. debt obligations.
“They have no compunction about blowing up the economy to get what they want,” Doyle told POLITICO after the meeting.
Hey! Uncle Joe!
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So now they're borrowing both our children's future and our parent's past to pay to keep this sham of a government alive. Treasury to tap pensions to help fund government By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Published: May 15 | Updated: Monday, May 16,...
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Via Weasel Zippers, citing this article from The Hill:High-profile liberals say President Obama's attempts to badger Democrats into voting will not work this November. Jane Hamsher, founder of the blog FireDogLake.com, told The Hill in an email Friday...
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