Once again, I guess "toning down the rhetoric" should only apply to Conservatives. It's ironic when you consider that Gabby Giffords made an appearance to cast a vote on the issue.....
Writing for Politico, William Yeomans:
TIME‘s Joe Klein:It has become commonplace to call the tea party faction in the House “hostage takers.” But they have now become full-blown terrorists.
They have joined the villains of American history who have been sufficiently craven to inflict massive harm on innocent victims to achieve their political goals. A strong America has always stood firm in the face of terrorism. That tradition is in jeopardy, as Congress and President Barack Obama careen toward an uncertain outcome in the tea party- manufactured debt crisis.
Former White House advisor Van Jones:The Republicans have been willing to concede nothing. Their stand means higher interest rates, fewer jobs created and more destroyed, a general weakening of this country’s standing in the world. Osama bin Laden, if he were still alive, could not have come up with a more clever strategy for strangling our nation.
New York Times columnist Thomas Freidman:Any faction in America that would put a gun to the head of 310 million people and say ‘If you don’t do it our way, we will blow your dreams away, we will blow a hole in the American economy’, that is un-American.
Peter Goodman at the Huffington Post (this post was later edited by the management at Huffington Post to tone it down a bit):[The tea party movement] is so lacking in any aspiration for American greatness, so dominated by the narrowest visions for our country and so ignorant of the fact that it was not tax cuts that made America great but our unique public-private partnerships across the generations. If sane Republicans do not stand up to this Hezbollah faction in their midst, the Tea Party will take the G.O.P. on a suicide mission.
Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News:The same Republicans who have so eagerly prosecuted the war on terror, running up huge deficits in the process, are now behaving like the enemies on which they have squandered so much blood and treasure: They are acting like terrorists. Yes, terrorists.
Chris Matthews on MSNBC:I mean, they’ve strapped explosives to the Capitol and they think they are immune from it.
Former Obama car czar Steve Rattner on MSNBC’s Morning Joe:Well, the GOP has become the Wahhabis of American government, willing to risk bringing down the whole country in the service of their anti-tax ideology.
You know, the problem with this is it’s like a form of economic terrorism. I imagine these Tea Party guys are like strapped with dynamite, standing in the middle of Times Square at rush hour and saying, ‘either you do it my way, or we’re going to blow you up, ourselves up, and the whole country up with us.’ So you tell me how those kinds of standoffs end.
Another irony is that these assholes don't even use the word "terrorist" when talking about terrorists! Well, I guess "rich, old white folk" didn't take; "racist' didn't work; "extreme" didn't catch on; so they're having a go at "terrorist". I wonder what's next? Cannibals? Nazis? Baby killers?
Here's a phrase the Liberals should get used to if they want to continue with their spending and borrowing binge:
Cao ni zu zong shi ba dai!
Good luck with that.
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Originally Posted by Moab
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