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    Biden, Carney deny reports of VP’s ‘terrorists’ statement

    White House spokesman Jay Carney and Vice President Joe Biden are refuting reports from Monday that Biden said Republicans “acted like terrorists” during the debt-ceiling debate.

    “He didn’t say those words,” said Carney during a Tuesday White House briefing. “Any kind of comments like that are simply not conducive to the kind of political discourse that we hope to have.”

    On Monday evening, Biden himself denied the report, which was first published in Politico.

    Biden told CBS News, “I did not use the terrorism word.” During a Capitol Hill meeting of Democrats on Monday, Biden said, “there were some people who said they felt like they were being held hostage by terrorists … I never said that they were terrorists or weren’t terrorists, I just let them vent.”

    Politico reported that Biden heard fellow Democrats complain about GOP legislators sympathetic to the Tea Party’s small-government goals, and that he responded by saying those Republicans “have acted like terrorists.”

    The Politico report and other reports prompted complaints from numerous GOP politicians, including Sarah Palin and Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee.

    Vice President Biden more than crossed a line today when he called fiscal conservatives “terrorists,” Priebus tweeted on Monday. “I demand an apology.” (RELATED: Obama shifts focus to jobs and taxes, away from debt talks)

    Carney did say Biden’s reaction, whatever it consisted of, “was the product of an emotional discussion, [of] very passionately held positions in this debate.”

    When pressed about Biden’s specific statements, Carney declined to comment, saying “lowering the temperature in general is a good thing … I think I’ve said all I can about that.”

    In an impromptu press conference after the Monday meeting, Biden said Democratic legislators “expressed all their frustration … I thought it was a good meeting and I feel confident that this [frustration] will pass.”

    But Biden also echoed some Democrats’ claims that GOP legislators threatened the nation while seeking spending cuts. “There is a sword of Damocles hanging over us [and] this is the debt limit and it was used as the means by which, unless certain compromises were made, we would default on our debt,” Biden told reporters.

    The vice president also complained about the GOP’s use of a government debt default as negotiating leverage, comparing it to the employment of a weapon of mass destruction. He told CBS that during Monday’s meeting, “I said … you now have taken and paid the debt [so] the nuclear weapon’s been taken out of anyone’s hands.”

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    31 comments

    • CWO3 USN RET  •  9 mths ago
      You can tell that the Court Jester oops I mean VP Biden did in fact say the nasty term as they have rolled out the big guns to say he didn't say it just like they roll out thebig guns to tell us what he meant to say not what he said. Joe is an idiot that has been a parasite on the taxpayer for the majority of his working life, actually his working life has probaly only been a couple of years because he's been a politician for the rest.
    • don  •  9 mths ago
      Biden should be shipped to Afghanistan and swapped for a couple of jackasses for the troops to ride and play with.This #$%$ is a menace to the country and should be tared and feathered and dumped in another country.And you clowns that voted this #$%$ in should be real proud of your stupidty!!!
    • Audie  •  9 mths ago
      Oh please, they said it and now are back tracking. The democrats have really lowered themselves over the past few years. Really hard to respect any of them, but they are worried about their future and have no valid rhetoric to draw voters.
    • Popcorn Smith  •  9 mths ago
      Well let me be clear on this, I say obama is a terrorist and is set on destroying America
    • Whas-up  •  9 mths ago
      You can bet that he said it!!! I am not a terroist and don't take very kindly to being called one. Now it is my turn Joe. You, your president and most of the democrat congress and senate are acting very much like Nazis, Gestapo and SS troopers in late 30's and early 40's.
    • OurVanishingAmerica.WordP ...  •  9 mths ago
      I wish I could buy Obama and Biden for their true value, then sell them for what they think they are worth. I would have enough money to make Bill Gates look poor.
    • bentbean  •  9 mths ago
      The gaff does it again Who screwed up and gave this guy a mouth
    • Richard  •  9 mths ago
      If Biden said it, it was more like Republicans “acted like #$%$ terrorists”
    • HDR  •  9 mths ago
      The Left says whatever they please; words are only important if others say them.

      Biden is a financial terrorist although they do not use violence; they are effective at bringing nations to their knees with debt.
    • Ludenella Comahunchin  •  9 mths ago
      I would rather belong to the "Tea Party" and stand up for the Constitution then belong to the Democrat party pushing socialism around the globe.
    • Snake eyes 2012  •  9 mths ago
      "TERRORISTS" &&& Barack Obama, and Joe Biden are "Enemies of the State" they are the real terrorists in this country and true blue red blooded Americans shouldn't tolerate any more of their antics. These two and their administration need to be run out of office and D.C. along with Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano they are ruining America and everything good about her.
    • Whatthe....  •  9 mths ago
      Wow! Poor Eric. The far left feels it has lost under Obama so is reduced the the most vicious name-calling of all time. When will you learn that the least intelligent name-call when they do not have a leg to stand on to support their views. Oh, well, sticks and stones....
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      Eric wrote: Perhaps they didn't. But I am perfectly happy to make that statement FOR them. The GOP and the Tea Party are nothing but a bunch of filthy terrorists, hijackers, kidnappers, hostage-takers, dog thieves and insurance salesmen.3 Replies
    • OurVanishingAmerica.WordP ...  •  9 mths ago
      I feel sorry for Biden. He is second banana to the worst president in U.S. history. Cut the poor dimwit a little slack.
    • Sam C  •  9 mths ago
      typical democrat. typical liberal. Saul Alinsky must be smiling from hell douche bags.
    • James  •  9 mths ago
      Obama is not working, time to end the Chicago cur experiment.
    • Jim Ketchel  •  9 mths ago
      " And I did not have sex with that intern". Where have I heard this before? hmmmmmmmmm
    • jim  •  9 mths ago
      I don't think there are enough numbers for the times Biden has opened his mouth and spewed S**T. He usually is laughing and then someone has to tell him later that he said it because he honestly is NOT SMART! Then he has to 'go on the record' and clear things up to the American people as if we're a bunch of #$%$ and need hearing aids because what he said and what we heard were actually two different things. Joe the Shmoe!
    • It's too late to cry ...  •  9 mths ago
      I think these idiot politicians are going to find out that the Tea Party is an idea, and you can't kill an idea. Best I can tell from folks I talk to who re not directly affiated with the Tea Party, I do believe that of all the political points of view out there, most Americans align themselves with the idea that government, as we know it today, is destructive, not constructive, of our individual rights. Too much government = oppression of the people!
    • Eric1  •  9 mths ago
      The GOP and their Tea Party stooges are Nazis and Fascists and evil in every respect. If the GOP returns to power, the economy will be destroyed, unemployment will skyrocket, industry will collapse, we will be thrust into a war with Iran we cannot win, your rights as American citizens will be denied, and ignorance and starvation will stalk this land. It's pretty much that simple! If that is what the American people REALLY want, then by all means, support the GOP or the Tea Party, and may God help us all....

      FASCISM Definition: a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion. (Robert O. Paxton, 2004)

      This is a VERY accurate description of BOTH the current GOP, and the Tea Party as well. You have chosen POORLY!

      How do they get into power?

      In all cases where fascism was successful, its rise was preceded by a period of political polarization and parliamentary deadlock. In Italy, forming a stable parliamentary majority had proved impossible since 1919, and making Mussolini Prime Minister in October 1922 offered a convenient way to break the deadlock. The celebrated “March on Rome” could have been easily resisted by the government (and in fact most fascists on their way to Rome were prevented from reaching it by police forces), but it offered a handy excuse for Victor Emmanuel II to invite Mussolini into the government. In Germany, it had been impossible to form a parliamentary majority from March 1930 until Hitler’s appointment as chancellor; Hindenburg had been ruling with emergency powers article 48 of the German constitution until the appointment of Hitler as chancellor in January 1933 allowed formation of a conservative majority government. Ironically, the failure of leftists to compromise and work with centrists was a major enabler for the rise of fascism in both Italy and Germany. ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR????

      ALTERNATIVE FASCISM DEFINITION:
      “Fascism is a form of political and social behavior that arises when the middle class, finding its hopes frustrated by economic instability coupled with political polarization and deadlock, abandons traditional ideologies and turns, with the approbation of police and military forces, to a poorly-defined but emotionally appealing soteriology of national unity, immediate and direct resolution of problems, and intolerance for dissent.” (Chuck Anesi, 2008) ANY OF THIS SOUND FAMILIAR???
      • Cannibal 9 mths ago
        awl, are you having emotional issues?
      • Jodi 9 mths ago
        WOW....you have got all kinds of definitions there. I don't think you changed anyone's mind though......Yep, I'm still proud to be a Tea Party voter. You, however, are now throughly repugnant. These quotes could be used for the Democratic party also. I am the middle class, and if I rise up, it'll be on narrow minded quote saying fools like you.
      • Eric1 9 mths ago
        Well you see, that is where you are WRONG again. These quotes could NOT be used in relationship to the Democratic Party, and I DARE you to TRY!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Joe, you and Barry can kiss my #$%$
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