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Tea Partiers Can’t Take Being Called Out For Economic Terrorism
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No dilettantes where hypocrisy is concerned, Tea Partiers are angry at Vice President Joe Biden for allegedly calling them Tea Party “terrorists.” We all remember how during President George W. Bush’s administration all of us who disagreed with his wars or his treatment of prisoners were called terrorists or terrorist sympathizers, traitors, and worse. Not because we advocated against America but because we advocated against President Bush’s policies.
We are still called terrorists and terrorist sympathizers if we disagree with the anti-Islamic hard-line Tea Partiers and Republicans, and with great regularity.
This particular outrage supposedly happened while Biden was meeting with House Democrats. FOX News is all over a Politico report that “a senior Democratic official told Fox News that Biden made such comments in reaction to a heated conversation with liberal House members like Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa, who were venting that Republicans got too much out of the debt ceiling deal unveiled the night before.
“They have acted like terrorists,” Biden was said to have responded.
Biden told CBS News anchor Scott Pelley in an interview that aired Monday night that he said no such thing:
“What happened was there were some people who said they felt like they were being held hostage by terrorists,” Biden said. “I never said that they were terrorists or weren’t terrorists, I just let them vent.”
His office said that though “the word was used by several members of Congress…the vice president does not believe it’s an appropriate term in political discourse.”
What is important is less what Biden may or may not have said but the hypocrisy of the Tea Party outrage. We all know by now that they feel no Democratic government can be legitimate. They’ve made that clear repeatedly and in vociferous terms. We also know that they feel freedom of religion and freedom of speech are one-way streets that apply only to them. They’re free to say anything they wish but we’re not free to disagree; we’re not even free to be offended.
As CBS News reports, Ms. Hypocrisy herself got upset:
And in a Monday night appearance on Fox News, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said it was “vile” to use the word terrorist in reference to politicians who were “taking a stand.”
“We’re getting kind of used to being called names. You know, racists and inciters of violence, and being accused with things we have nothing to do with,” Palin told Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “But I suppose it’s a bit more appalling to have been called acting like terrorists today from he who is in second in command of the most powerful office in the world. It’s quite appalling and cert proves how out of touch this White House is what it comes to realizing what the silent majority of Americans are seeing and feeling.”
And here CBS needs to be thanked for showing some journalistic integrity and fact-checking:
(Incidentally, Palin has lobbed the “terrorist” claim against her own political opponents in the past: In 2008, she accused President Obama — then the democratic nominee for president — of “palling around” with terrorists. Palin was referring in her comments to William Ayers, a former member of the radical Weathermen group, who served on education boards with Mr. Obama in Chicago. But reports indicated that Mr. Obama and Ayers were not close.)
They can call liberals and progressives the most awful things imaginable and without any supporting evidence at all and it’s all well and fine. FOX News reports on the response of one lawmaker in particular:
The comment drew an immediate rebuke from Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., one of the most outspoken Tea Party-aligned lawmakers in Congress.
“With the president holding the American economy hostage, I would prefer to think of myself as a Freedom Fighter,” Paul said in a statement, calling the remarks “insulting.”
Freedom fighter? Hostage taker? Who takes hostages? Terrorists of course. So while expressing outrage at being called a terrorist, Rand Paul is calling the President of the United States…a terrorist.
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Dan Skinner
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 3:25 pm
what do you call someone who takes another hostage to get what they want? Oh yeah… a terrorist.
Cthulhu
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 9:30 am
And what do you do with terrorists? Mr. Bin Laden, would you like to field this one?
Jim S
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 7:36 pm
So if I don’t pay taxes, then get held hostage in prison till I pay … that would be?
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I have to say there are quite a few people for whom I do not really care what they say. Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann and Rand Paul are three of them.
If the vice president did not say the word terrorist or call the tea bags terrorists than Sarah Palin, Michelle Bachmann( who has since last out at Biden) and Rand Paul are all going to look like fools. However they will not care because they got to say something that makes the vice president look bad.
The tea party did exactly what everyone says they did. A part of me wishes that we had went into default like the tea party wanted us to. How wonderful they would’ve looked then. You can always fall into manure and expect to smell like a rose tea bags
buckeyewill
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 3:37 pm
Wished Obama used the 14th amendment to raise the debt ceiling and show he doesn’t negotiate with political terrorist.
Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…what’s done is done.
Hrafnkell
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 4:09 pm
I’m with you there.
Iris
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 7:27 pm
True. Well said, buckeyewill!
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 4:17 pm
Buckeye this is just my opinion, but the resulting impeachment hearings would’ve lasted well past 2012 if he had use the 14th amendment. It doesn’t matter if he would’ve survived the impeachment are not, that is not something that the United States needs to go through. It would simply have given the Republicans more chance to perform the stupidity that they are going through with women’s rights, seniors rights and children’s rights while the president was fighting impeachment.
Sarah Jones
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Doesn’t it gall you that they would try to impeach him for that but WMD and an illegal war left off of the budget and the funneling of money to Cheney and Bush’s family businesses — that’s all OK.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 4:46 pm
it most certainly does. I know Stephen King already had impeachment plans laid out and at least one other representative was going to bring charges of some type.
And that’s probably the only thing I will never forgive Obama for, not that it matters but Bush and Cheney should have been imprisoned for the lies that they cause to be lost and the vast amount of money that put us debt
Sarah Jones
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Of course, he couldn’t do that because of the dark forces that really run this country. But I’ll pretend we don’t know about that. These moments (not prosecuting Nixon and Bush) are part of what is destroying this country due to the cynicism it breeds re the law and power, and the feeling the GOP has that they can do anything and never pay for it.
majii
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 6:22 pm
I regret that it didn’t happen, too, Shiva. My only guess is that President Obama and his advisers decided that the economy took precedence over going after the Bush Cabal for their crimes. The only solace I feel about them getting away with their crimes is that it looks like the name George W. Bush will leave a bad taste in the mouths of Americans today and in the future. His record is a matter of history now, and I think that even were he in the future to become “larger than life” like Reagan, there will always be some Americans who will know how his actions brought the U.S. and global economies to their knees, the same as millions of us know the role Reagan played in Iran-Contra, and the way he fully developed and promoted his failed trickle down economic policy.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Thats why the GOP is so quick to say “Its Obama’s Problem”. SO people will forget Bush
Reynardine
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 3:55 pm
DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender)
rm
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Sarah Palin, the ancient Alaskan deity of greed and slothfulness, said on Fox News, “I think we’re getting kind of used to being called names—racists, inciters of violence, being accused of things we have nothing to do with. I suppose it’s a bit more appalling to have been called acting like terrorists by he who is second in command of the most powerful office in the world. It’s quite appalling.” It’s less appalling, of course, when Palin herself accuses the president of harboring terrorist tendencies.
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Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 4:16 pm
wait a minute, are you trying to tell me that Floyd’s barbershop didn’t make it?
Sarah Jones
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Will the highest bumpit win? Ticky tacky hair….
laingirl
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 7:32 pm
What “silent majority” Americans was Failin Palin talking about. All she knows about are teabaggers like herself, and they are not silent.
I wonder if the Beehive puts bump-its on everyone in Alaska.
majii
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 6:12 pm
I’ll be SO glad when Palin announces a run for the presidency and opens herself up to questions about everything she’s said in the past. So far, she’s been very comfortable with sitting up on Fox and stirring $h!t up. I can hardly wait for her to throw her hat in the ring. That is, if she’s brave enough.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 6:23 pm
I am not sure she would ever open herself up to the fact that 3 weeks before having trig she wasnt preggie, or any real questions. You know the press will do her like a cheap six pack because she wont have any truthful answers
Paul Anderson
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Who gives a fuck that those idiots are upset? Not me. Fuck them and the horse they rode in on…
CLEO17
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I totally agree with Paul Anderson. But I can’t say it. :(
CLEO17
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 8:40 pm
they should be treated like terrorists if they want to be TALIBANISTAS..jerks! THen the cowards go off for 5 weeks so they don’t have to hear you scream. COWARDS all of them!
Rick Shreiner
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I’ll go Joe Biden one better: the GOP-baggers ARE INDEED economic terrorists, and they shall soon prove it again, by holding FAA jobs hostage in order to make EVEN MORE unreasonable demands.
And though the US government does NOT negotiate with terrorists, the Dems bend over BIG TIME for the GOP-baggers .. ..
Brown cow
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 9:29 pm
This sounds more and more like little boys and girls hurling insults at each other. I can remember being 5 or 6 years old looking forward to being grown up and not having to deal with name calling. (sigh)
novenator
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Holding not just the American economy but the *world* economy hostage in order to kill Social Security and Medicare IS economic terrorism, and this isn’t the first time we’ve seen the right wing do this. Remember just 7 months ago when the conservatives threatened to kill any bill that didn’t extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich? They were willing to let prior tax levels be restored for everyone unless the rich could get a lucrative package, and they even tried to kill the START Treaty and other things completely unrelated to this in the process.
That’s just the economic side of the issue. There has been a HUGE upswing in actual threats and violence since Obama won the election, 100+ instances well documented here: www.csgv.org/issues-and-c... The number of militias and hate groups have exploded as well, now numbering over 1000: www.splcenter.org/get-inf...
This is the definition of terrorism, and we have a Jihad problem right here in America: it’s the Teabangicals.
Sarah Jones
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 10:43 pm
Great links Nov.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 11:19 pm
Did you read the second link showing Patriot and militia chart? They had almost died out until Obama was elected.
Guns, baby jebus and chewing tobacco
Yes these people are a far higher threat than muslims
goddess
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 11:09 pm
…not unlike the woman (or man, for that matter) who sells her body in the street and then gets all offended if you call her a prostitute.
Mikeyhatesit
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 11:11 pm
Ummm… Didn’t one Right-winger refer to the President as ‘boy’? Repeatedly?
And what about the use of the word ‘tar-baby’? It seems like they want the Song of the South to raise again!
Doris
Aug. 2nd, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Whatever,with the peepotters,bottomline…TRUTH HURTS,NO WORD DESCRIBERS THE PEETHUGLICANS BETTER…..
Anne
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 10:46 am
The truth always hurts when folks can dish out insults and threats but can’t take it themselves. Whether Biden said it or not, it is the absolute truth about them.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 10:51 am
Good morning Anne. It has since come out that Biden didnt say it, but that wont stop Plain and Bachmann from carrying on like real trash
Anne
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 11:01 am
It sounds like another manufactured incident, unlike the real and well-documented ones showing folks on the right calling our president racist names. With all the hateful remarks both Palin and Bachmann have made about the First Couple, it’s laughable that they have to make up some nonsense. Even though Biden didn’t say that about the Tea Partiers, the truth is the truth. It’s just that the truth is not a friend of the Teabaggers.
Earl
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 11:51 am
I am astounded at this comments page. This is the most anti-american speech I’ve heard ever. Intellectual jellyfish arguing that Obama should assume the role of an imperator under the 14th amendment to force a debt ceiling raise which allows the further looting of our economy and the extension of the unavoidable future crash looming. Alexis de Tocqueville warned that the greatest danger to this nation was a president that assumed dictatorial powers… Well? Does anyone here read books? Do you know you’re supporting a new Hitler that has already built camps across this nation in preparation for the economic collapse? This is absolutely incredible. I don’t agree with the tea party, but I find most of these posters absolutely brainwashed, unamerican filth that don’t respect/understand their own heritage. They bow to their emperor and accept tyranny, when america was created by an act of disobedience. Leave the debt ceiling alone, let the markets correct themselves sooner and get these foreign agents out of our legislative bodies!!!
Sarah Jones
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Earl, where are those camps that Obama is building? Please cite a legitimate source, because sadly, that’s crazy talk. It’s insane and disturbing that you believe this.
Shiva (Moderator)
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Earl is why we are in debt. Thinking we could just walk away from the debt ceiling and thinking its all about the markets shows that drug use can be damaging
Camps? LOL
NamelessGenXer
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Let’s get this straight: Republicans are Treasonous; Fundamentalist Christians are Terrorists.
Fixt!
Brandt Hardin
Aug. 3rd, 2011 at 4:01 pm
She is a mouthpiece for nothing but hatred and dissension. Sarah Palin’s rhetoric and violence-inciting imagery IS a form of terrorism and a prime example. She held Jared Lee Loughner’s hand while he murdered people with his misguided sensibilities. I was compelled to draw a visual commentary showing her handing him the gun on my artist’s blog at dregstudiosart.blogspot.c... She’ll go to any lengths and keep spewing her insanity for that attention (and the money of course.)