"Biden rips GOP, Tea Party at fundraiser"

[Clio the Leo]

Biden rips GOP, Tea Party at fundraiser

By Jordan Fabian - 07/23/10 03:44 PM ET

Vice President Joe Biden had some choice words for Republicans and the Tea Party at a fundraiser for a powerful congressional Democrat on Friday.

At the event for House Budget Committee Chairman John Spratt (S.C.), Biden questioned the "judgment" of the Tea Party and suggested the GOP is worse off than it was a generation ago.

“Today’s Republican Party is not your father’s Republican Party,” he said, according to a pool report. “It’s the party of the Tea Party, some of whom I passed outside. I’m not questioning their integrity. I’m questioning their judgment.”
Biden has spoke forcefully on behalf of several House Democratic candidates this week, painting their elections as a stark choice between their GOP opponents and the Democratic agenda, instead of a simple referendum on the Obama administration.

The vice president said that the Democrats agenda is helping to get the struggling economy back on track, but said that they now need to take time to explain the meaning of sweeping new laws to voters.

"Here’s the problem-- we’ve been working so hard to get these major new building blocks laid down,” He said. “They are so big, so heavy, that the American people don’t understand what’s in it for them yet. Now that the hard lifting is done, we’re going to spend the next 90 days going out explaining to people exactly what it means to them."

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/110655-biden-rips-gop-tea-party-at-fundraiser

[gateley]

1. "I’m not questioning their integrity. I’m questioning their judgment.”

Classic Biden.

I love that guy!

[SpiralHawk]

5. "But we question their integrity." - Citizens of the United States of America

"Jeeez, with all their hate and spin and lies and WideStance Family Pharisee Values, and wanting America to FAIL the way they FAILed, naturally we have to question their integrity - they don't seem to have any."

- Honorable Citizens of the United States of America
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[gateley]

7. I agree, and I'm sure Biden does, too. But he was able to paint them as idiots

without calling their integrity into play without saying something that would cause an uproar for the administration.

[Jester Messiah]

6. Too nice.

The average bagger has no integrity, no intelligence, and no soul. Fuck the lot of 'em.

[gateley]

8. Sigh. Don't you think Biden and Obama know that? They can't come out and

call them sleazy fucks without causing a lot of backlash for the administration. He managed to say they were stupid in a very acceptable way. He's not a poster on a message board able to say whatever he wants, he's the Vice President of the United States of America and has to be aware that these are citizens he's referring to.

It never ceases to amaze me that people expect the President and administration to let it rip.

[opihimoimoi]

2. From time to time we all follow BAD ADVICE...the Baggers is a prime example

Biden is right...it will take time for the sinking in of pertinent facts to counter Baggers smear tactics

The GOP is in deep doo

Look who is running the Pub Party....Beck, Hannity, Rush, Bachmann, Palin, DeMint, Damn.....

[napi21]

3. Ya gotta LOVE Joe! I know if I were a candidate, I'd sure want him

camaigning for ME! We have so few Dems in Ga, I haven't gone to any rallys. I've comunicated with a few Dems who are runnng, read their web sites & made mydecisions, but if I heard that Joe was coming to town for a rally, you bet I'd do everything I could to attend!

[Native]

4. Yep, he called it - sincere and stupid!

My guess is it's going to take a lot longer than 90 days to get through to these dim bulbs. This is the "real" heavy lifting!