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2011-08-02 Home Front: Politix
Sources: Joe Biden likens tea partiers to terrorists
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, according to several sources in the room.
This is from a party who would never call those who kidnap civilians, hang 8-year-old boys, and burn and kill teachers 'terrorists'. Peferring to call them 'Activists'....
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.”
And the majority of americans support them and say 'Enough spending'.
Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists.”
And who had been threatening to cut off senior's Social Security checks? Checks they have paid into for their entire lives? Here's a hint - he has a D after his name.
Biden’s office initially declined to comment about what the vice president said inside the closed-door session, but after POLITICO published the remarks, spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff said: “The word was used by several members of Congress. The vice president does not believe it’s an appropriate term in political discourse.”

Biden later denied he used that term in an interview with CBS.

“I did not use the terrorism word,” Biden told CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Scott Pelley.

Earlier in the day, Biden told Senate Democrats that Republican leaders have “guns to their heads” in trying to negotiate deals.
Dear Vice President Joe Biden: That's the way a republic is supposed to work ya maroon (moron). Too bad.
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-08-02 00:33|| || Front Page|| [7 views ]  Top

#1 "Who let the dogs out" Ruff Ruff. He got away from his handlers.
Posted by Dale 2011-08-02 05:11||   2011-08-02 05:11|| Front Page Top

#2 Journolist never went away.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-08-02 05:16||   2011-08-02 05:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I imagine to Joe, Tea Partiers are just as frightning as terrorists.
Posted by Bobby 2011-08-02 06:00||   2011-08-02 06:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Bobby, probably even more frightening. After all, the Secret Service will keep him safe from terrorists. But the Tea Party types can vote him out of office.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2011-08-02 07:25||   2011-08-02 07:25|| Front Page Top

#5 I liken Biden to a morning bowel movement (with no roughage).
Posted by newc 2011-08-02 07:38||   2011-08-02 07:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Biden can be written off an the resident administration idiot because there is absolutely no connection between his brain (given that there is a brain in his cranium) and his mouth.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-02 09:47||   2011-08-02 09:47|| Front Page Top

#7 A Tea Party person snarked, "Are the Democrats now getting their talking points from North Korea?"

The funny thing is both that Joe came out later to half disavow what he said, in that he didn't say Tea Party and terrorist in the same sentence, or something. But by then, a whole slew of lefty MSM talking heads took up the talking point equating the Tea Party with terrorists.

Tucson editorial cartoonist.

Chris Matthews: Tea Party Republicans are baby kidnapping terrorists.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-02 10:05||   2011-08-02 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Al Sharpton was a little off message, by saying that the Tea Party is a monster that will destroy you. Whoever "you" is.

Paul Krugman says Tea Party will blow up economy.
Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-02 10:05||   2011-08-02 10:05|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-08-02 10:06||   2011-08-02 10:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I seem to recall connotations in a similar vain by the Democrats about the upstart Republicans in 1860 as well.
Posted by Procopius2k 2011-08-02 10:24||   2011-08-02 10:24|| Front Page Top

#11 "This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money."

Representative Doyle is not a Rantburg regular and appears to be a Democratic moron, but I say that remark is Snark of the Day material. (we will let him slide on subject/verb agreement)
Posted by SteveS 2011-08-02 11:34||   2011-08-02 11:34|| Front Page Top

#12 When you cannot defeat your adversary by reasoned discourse, then you make a personal attack.

These are the geniuses running our country.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-08-02 12:00||   2011-08-02 12:00|| Front Page Top

#13 AP, exactly what I was gonna say. The donks these days are full of hyperbole but entirely lacking in civil, well reasoned discourse. I always figured that the first person to lose his temper loses the argument. Such a person will resort to screaming and yelling when he or she can't come up something logical to say. These people have lost their temper. It sounds as if they've lost their minds. The questions is: will the American people get it?
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-08-02 12:33||   2011-08-02 12:33|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Gerthudion Thrick3118 2011-08-02 12:44||   2011-08-02 12:44|| Front Page Top

#15 It used to be that it was the party OUT of power that was insane. Maybe the democrats can see the writing on the wall.
Posted by My two cents 2011-08-02 12:48||   2011-08-02 12:48|| Front Page Top

#16 Someone made a very wise comment on this sort of language 151 years ago:

Under all these circumstances, do you really feel yourselves justified to break up this Government unless such a court decision as yours is, shall be at once submitted to as a conclusive and final rule of political action? But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union; and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, “Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!”
Posted by Eric Jablow  2011-08-02 22:36||   2011-08-02 22:36|| Front Page Top

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