Posted on 03/25/2011 3:58:50 PM PDT by Crush
How many times did you hear socialist-progressives (so-progs) call Republicans ‘obstructionists’ when Democrats held absolute power over all three branches of the US government? Correct answer: too many times to count.
Voters wised up and restored some balance to Washington during the November midterm elections. Republicans gained control of the US House after including a major commitment in speeches across the land—to cut federal spending. There have been some small gains. But furor has arisen among the so-progs who react to talk of spending cuts in decibels a Highlands banshee would be proud of.
That furor can take an ugly turn. For instance during a March fundraiser Vice-President Joe Biden compared Republicans to rape apologists. Biden said:
“When a woman got raped, blame her because she was wearing a skirt too short, she looked the wrong way or she wasn't home in time to make the dinner,” Biden said.
“We've gotten by that,” he said. “But it's amazing how these Republicans, the right wing of this party – whose philosophy threw us into this God-awful hole we’re in, gave us the tremendous deficit we’ve inherited – that they’re now using, now attempting to use, the very economic condition they have created to blame the victim – whether it’s organized labor or ordinary middle-class working men and women. It's bizarre. It's bizarre.”[The Hill]
Biden apparently has amnesia when it comes to this “God-awful hole we’re in.” Democrats are as vested in that “tremendous deficit” as anyone, even more than Republicans depending on your ideas about the role of centralized government.
As for implying spending cuts have anything to do with rape, it's bizarre, it's bizarre.
Meanwhile tea party supporters are holding the GOP to the cut-spending pledge. CBS News said the national group Tea Party Patriots called for a rally ...
(Excerpt) Read more at theusreport.com ...
Is that why it's doubled since the Democrats recaptured Congress in 2007, Joe? I can't even think about his being Vice President of the United States. He's a toad and beneath the dignity of an office once described as "not worth a bucket of warm spit."
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