for the attempt at changing the debate in Washington, demanding some fiscal sanity however little it will help things and standing firm despite vicious attacks from some of the lowest forms of life on the planet during "Obama's age of civility"...apparently when the left/democrats use such language it is simply "colorful phrases"...but let the other side touch the constantly in-flux border of civil discourse...and...well...we know what happens
Sources:
Joe Biden likened tea partiers to terrorists
'They have acted like terrorists,' Biden said, according to several sources in the room.
JONATHAN ALLEN & JOHN BRESNAHAN 8/1/11
Updated: 8/2/11 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.
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.”
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.
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.
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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