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.Money that doesn't exist by the way. The federal government borrows $0.40 of every dollar it spends. And cutting back such insane theft of future wealth via deficit spending is terrorism? According to Biden, yup:
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.”The 'new civility' my left foot. More from Power Line, The Sundries Shack, The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, Don Surber, And So it Goes in Shreveport, Conservatives4Palin, Gateway Pundit, Pajamas Media, Outside the Beltway, The Daily Caller, NRO, The Right Scoop, The Blaze, Hot Air, Patterico's Pontifications, The Lonely Conservative and Verum Serum
UPDATE: Via Instapundit:
ED DRISCOLL: ‘Wait, Does That Mean Obama Won the Terrorist Vote?’
Plus, Let Us Look Back at the Calm, Rational Rhetoric of the Debt Ceiling Circus.
UPDATE: The Veep Goes Vile.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Is Gabby Giffords a “terrorist?”
UPDATE #2: Palin vs. Biden's 'Terrorist' Tea Party Comments
UPDATE #4: Joe Biden - corruptocrat: Mark Levin - Joe Biden is Charging Rent To The Secret Service For Staying At His Cottage
JIM TREACHER TO JOE BIDEN: So we’re terrorists for “holding the country hostage”? Okay, then: For what you’re doing to future generations, you are pedophiles. Own it.
UPDATE: John Hawkins tweets: Dan Quayle’s on the phone, calling from 1992. He wants to know how Joe Biden could possibly more of an idiot.