White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Thursday compared Republicans to terrorists and arsonists.
“We are for cutting spending,” Pfeiffer said. “What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. We’re not going to do that.”
Pelosi described Tea Party Republicans as “arsonists.”
“Legislative arsonists are at work when they start using the debt limit for their own agenda,” Pelosi said. “Our country cannot afford another Republican manufactured crisis, which this is.”
Karl Rove is scared. That much is very clear. As House Tea Partiers threaten to go on what the Wall Street Journal called a "kamikaze mission" to defund Obamacare, the GOP establishment -- to which Rove definitely belongs -- find themselves strapped into the copilot's seat, without a parachute. As the nose dips down and the engines begin that high-pitched whine, the establishment gets a good look at the size of the USS Obamacare below them and thinks what every kamikaze pilot must've thought -- "This isn't even going to make a dent."
President Barack Obama, known for his lectures to others on civility, saw fit to use the obscene and derogatory term “tea-baggers” in a book interview with author Jonathan Alter.
Below is an excerpt from Alter’s new book The Promise: President Obama, Year One, to be released May 18:
Obama said that the unanimous House vote against the Recovery Act ‘set the tenor for the whole year’: ‘That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.’ For Obama this was the greatest surprise of 2009.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has suggested Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee be nominated for the position of secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
The recommendation was made in a letter dated July 25, signed by CBC chairwoman Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, suggesting that Pres. Obama nominate her to take over for outgoing DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
In 2010, Jackson Lee compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan, and this past February, she called herself a “freed slave” in a speech before the House of Representatives.
Rep. Maxine Waters continued to make waves during the summer recess, telling a town hall meeting that “the tea party can go straight to hell.”
“This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned — the tea party can go straight to hell,” Waters said, according to Los Angeles television station KABC.
The remarks came at a “Kitchen Table Summit” in Inglewood Saturday night attended by more than a thousand people. Waters’ comments came on the heels of questions about unemployment and the economy.
Calling your political opponents terrorists is no accident. For everyone knows what should happen to real terrorists. They should be killed. Right? The only question is, who are really the terrorists?
When the Vice President of the United States calls his peaceful political opponents terrorists, what he is saying is he would like to see them dead.
There’s no denying the depths — and hypocrisy — to which the New York Times opinion section has sunk. Remember that Paul Krugman carried on his own war of vilification, claiming Republicans were responsible for mass murder. As my colleague Charles Lane and the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto noted, another New York Times columnist decided to unleash his own noxious assault on the right. Yesterday Joe Nocera coughed up this bile on the Times’ op-ed page:
These last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took.
Dem. senator says tea party ‘as dangerous’ to America as Civil War
September 27, 2013 by Tom Tillison 12 Comments
politix.topix.com U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, took to the floor of the Senate on Friday and said the tea party is just as dangerous for the country as the Civil War, as reported by The Hill.
Not long ago, President Barack Obama called for a more civil and honest public discourse in the country, reminding us that “we can question each other’s ideas without questioning each other’s love of country.” Words that clearly had little impact on Sen. Harkin.
“A small group of willful men and women who have a certain ideology about how our country should run and what we should do cannot get their way in a normal discourse and votes,” Harkin said. “Since they can’t get their way, they’re going to create this confusion and discourse and hope the public is so mixed up in who to blame for this that perhaps they’ll blame both sides.”
Harkin then takes his demagoguery to an unprecedented level:
“That is the path they see for taking over the government. It’s dangerous. It’s very dangerous. I believe, Mr. President, we are at one of the most dangerous points in our history right now. Every bit as dangerous as the break-up of the Union before the Civil War.”
For the record, the Civil War was America’s bloodiest conflict that cost nearly 1,100,000 casualties and claimed more than 620,000 lives. But this is how the Democratic senator chose to describe average everyday Americans who simply ask for a fiscally responsible government with a limited role in their lives.
Harkin made the contemptible comments as the Senate prepared to vote on a continuing resolution that would fund the government past Sept 30, as reported by The Hill. The chamber is expected to advance the bill today after adding an amendment that restores ObamaCare funding that was nixed by the House.
While listening to Harkin denigrate the “minority” he speaks of, it’s brings to mind the words of the man known as the father of the American Revolution:
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” ~ Samuel Adams
Well Sen Harkin is partially right. The slavery south was just as adamant to have their way in 1860 as the Tea Baggers :) are today. Who knows what is in store down the road for this country. Tea Baggers = more and bigger guns, Tea Baggers= continued gridlock and inaction in Washington. Tea baggers = continued economic strife.
Can't argue with you Rick. The Tea Party does stand behind the second amendment. The Tea Party will support limited government by any means possible. If you call the promotion of a sound economic structure based on resources flowing to the most efficient location economic strife then I'm with you on that one also Rick.
Miss a meal how cute. Yeah I did. The year was 1971-1972. Those were the years that my family was homeless part of the time. Real funny comment now isn't it? But since I have been a responsible democratic adult no I have not nor have I ever been unemployed except for one month (the company I worked for shutdown) since I was 17 years old. Can you say the same doubt it.
White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer on Thursday compared Republicans to terrorists and arsonists.
ReplyDelete“We are for cutting spending,” Pfeiffer said. “What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. We’re not going to do that.”
In the words of Sen. Chuck Schumer:
ReplyDeleteWe won't be extorted now, we won't be extorted two weeks from now, we won't be extorted in December. Speaker Boehner: Pass our bill.
Pelosi described Tea Party Republicans as “arsonists.”
ReplyDelete“Legislative arsonists are at work when they start using the debt limit for their own agenda,” Pelosi said. “Our country cannot afford another Republican manufactured crisis, which this is.”
Reid: “We’re Not Going to Bow to Tea Party Anarchists"
ReplyDeleteKarl Rove is scared. That much is very clear. As House Tea Partiers threaten to go on what the Wall Street Journal called a "kamikaze mission" to defund Obamacare, the GOP establishment -- to which Rove definitely belongs -- find themselves strapped into the copilot's seat, without a parachute. As the nose dips down and the engines begin that high-pitched whine, the establishment gets a good look at the size of the USS Obamacare below them and thinks what every kamikaze pilot must've thought -- "This isn't even going to make a dent."
ReplyDeleteExcerpt:
ReplyDeletePresident Barack Obama, known for his lectures to others on civility, saw fit to use the obscene and derogatory term “tea-baggers” in a book interview with author Jonathan Alter.
Below is an excerpt from Alter’s new book The Promise: President Obama, Year One, to be released May 18:
Obama said that the unanimous House vote against the Recovery Act ‘set the tenor for the whole year’: ‘That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.’ For Obama this was the greatest surprise of 2009.
The Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has suggested Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee be nominated for the position of secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
ReplyDeleteThe recommendation was made in a letter dated July 25, signed by CBC chairwoman Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, suggesting that Pres. Obama nominate her to take over for outgoing DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano.
In 2010, Jackson Lee compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Klan, and this past February, she called herself a “freed slave” in a speech before the House of Representatives.
http://www.examiner.com/article/congressional-black-caucus-recommends-sheila-jackson-lee-for-dhs-secretary
Rep. Maxine Waters continued to make waves during the summer recess, telling a town hall meeting that “the tea party can go straight to hell.”
ReplyDelete“This is a tough game. You can’t be intimidated. You can’t be frightened. And as far as I’m concerned — the tea party can go straight to hell,” Waters said, according to Los Angeles television station KABC.
The remarks came at a “Kitchen Table Summit” in Inglewood Saturday night attended by more than a thousand people. Waters’ comments came on the heels of questions about unemployment and the economy.
Charlie Rangel: These tea partiers are the same terrorist white crackers we fought during desegregation
ReplyDeleteCokie Roberts on MSNBC: ‘Some … tea party anger is racist’
ReplyDeleteGosh W.M., Sounds like the Tea Party has a few people riled up.
ReplyDeleteBecause 99% of democrats are assholes....................
ReplyDeleteWaaaa, somebody called me names...I can't take this abuse...somebody throw those bad guys in jail...
ReplyDeleteCalling your political opponents terrorists is no accident. For everyone knows what should happen to real terrorists. They should be killed. Right? The only question is, who are really the terrorists?
ReplyDeleteWhen the Vice President of the United States calls his peaceful political opponents terrorists, what he is saying is he would like to see them dead.
There’s no denying the depths — and hypocrisy — to which the New York Times opinion section has sunk. Remember that Paul Krugman carried on his own war of vilification, claiming Republicans were responsible for mass murder. As my colleague Charles Lane and the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto noted, another New York Times columnist decided to unleash his own noxious assault on the right. Yesterday Joe Nocera coughed up this bile on the Times’ op-ed page:
ReplyDeleteThese last few months, much of the country has watched in horror as the Tea Party Republicans have waged jihad on the American people. Their intransigent demands for deep spending cuts, coupled with their almost gleeful willingness to destroy one of America’s most invaluable assets, its full faith and credit, were incredibly irresponsible. But they didn’t care. Their goal, they believed, was worth blowing up the country for, if that’s what it took.
Dem. senator says tea party ‘as dangerous’ to America as Civil War
ReplyDeleteSeptember 27, 2013 by Tom Tillison 12 Comments
politix.topix.com
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, took to the floor of the Senate on Friday and said the tea party is just as dangerous for the country as the Civil War, as reported by The Hill.
Not long ago, President Barack Obama called for a more civil and honest public discourse in the country, reminding us that “we can question each other’s ideas without questioning each other’s love of country.” Words that clearly had little impact on Sen. Harkin.
“A small group of willful men and women who have a certain ideology about how our country should run and what we should do cannot get their way in a normal discourse and votes,” Harkin said. “Since they can’t get their way, they’re going to create this confusion and discourse and hope the public is so mixed up in who to blame for this that perhaps they’ll blame both sides.”
Harkin then takes his demagoguery to an unprecedented level:
“That is the path they see for taking over the government. It’s dangerous. It’s very dangerous. I believe, Mr. President, we are at one of the most dangerous points in our history right now. Every bit as dangerous as the break-up of the Union before the Civil War.”
For the record, the Civil War was America’s bloodiest conflict that cost nearly 1,100,000 casualties and claimed more than 620,000 lives. But this is how the Democratic senator chose to describe average everyday Americans who simply ask for a fiscally responsible government with a limited role in their lives.
Harkin made the contemptible comments as the Senate prepared to vote on a continuing resolution that would fund the government past Sept 30, as reported by The Hill. The chamber is expected to advance the bill today after adding an amendment that restores ObamaCare funding that was nixed by the House.
While listening to Harkin denigrate the “minority” he speaks of, it’s brings to mind the words of the man known as the father of the American Revolution:
“It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” ~ Samuel Adams
Well Sen Harkin is partially right. The slavery south was just as adamant to have their way in 1860 as the Tea Baggers :) are today. Who knows what is in store down the road for this country. Tea Baggers = more and bigger guns, Tea Baggers= continued gridlock and inaction in Washington. Tea baggers = continued economic strife.
ReplyDeleteCan't argue with you Rick. The Tea Party does stand behind the second amendment. The Tea Party will support limited government by any means possible. If you call the promotion of a sound economic structure based on resources flowing to the most efficient location economic strife then I'm with you on that one also Rick.
Delete1773-2009 Miss a meal yet Rick?
Miss a meal how cute. Yeah I did. The year was 1971-1972. Those were the years that my family was homeless part of the time. Real funny comment now isn't it?
DeleteBut since I have been a responsible democratic adult no I have not nor have I ever been unemployed except for one month (the company I worked for shutdown) since I was 17 years old. Can you say the same doubt it.
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DeleteOwned my own company since I was 22 years old. 41 years. Seen many people fall on hard times and don't wish it on anyone.
DeleteLet me ask you one question Rick. How come we have so many obese people using food stamps?
1773-2009 as a country we are going into debt at the rate of ten billion dollars a day since deficit day in September.