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Isn't that what THE PEOPLE voted them in for?

 

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.


( If the hypocritical B**tards in Washington had a clue, they would know the economy is already "blown", after almost 3 years of the community organizer)

 

 



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Originally Posted by Roland Pfalz:

 

Isn't that what THE PEOPLE voted them in for?

 

POSSIBLY, this was the real plan of **** Armey and Freedomworks all along.  TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY.  THEY ALMOST DID IT and MAY YET if we don't get rid of the TEABAGGERS in congress!!!!!!!!!

 

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.”

 

YES, if it was left up to the teabaggers, the country would not SPEND ANY MONEY to pay the DEBTS we already have.  DEADBEAT TEABAGGERS!



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.

 

Earlier in the day, Biden told Senate Democrats that Republican leaders have “guns to their heads” in trying to negotiate deals.

 

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.

 

Well there you have it! 


Thanks for pointing it out Roland!

Not that you MEANT to, you are just THAT stupid (You really are using Politico as your provenance????????????)

Originally Posted by JimiHendrix:
Yep, they did what they were elected todo: destroy the republican party. If they could manage to destroy the country and the economy at the same time, that was just a bonus.

This guy claims to be a retired vet.  Most I know speak English as their first language.  What Army did you serve, North Koreas?

Originally Posted by rocky:
Originally Posted by b50m:

Nice way to mend those fences.  Those Tea Party reps are still there for at least another year.

 

Just wait for the next meeting and see what happens.


Knowing how you weigh your words, do I sense a "crack" in the shell??


Not really, at least not the way you think.  Both sides will pay heavily at the polls in 2012. The libs hate the dems in Congress and Obama as much as the conservatives hate the republicans.

Both sides will see big turnovers.

I hope you like political ads, there will be all you can stand to watch and more next year.

 

With unemployment so high, plus other factors, Obama doesn't stand a chance of getting re-elected. A lot of Americans on both sides of the issue are not happy about this compromise. There will be a lot of new people elected to office in 2012.

The struggle to return fiscal sanity to government will be a long one.  Simply controlling one-half of one-third of the government will no ensure success.  The $200 billion, or so, saved during the FY11 continuing budget resolution battle was a skirmish.  The fiscal conservatives won, but a skirmish only.  The budget ceiling is a small victory -- think El Alamein, not a D Day landing. 

 

Fiscal conservatives must now battle for the minds of the public, educating them to the perils of not significantly reducing the debt.  Time to slough thru the mud, dragging the seige engines towards the liberals' ivory towers. 

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