'Tea party' terrorists? Bachmann raising money off alleged Biden comment

[jpak]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-pn-bachmann-biden-20110802,0,4465708.story

Michele Bachmann is trying to cash in on remarks attributed to Vice President Joe Biden linking "tea party" conservatives with terrorists, the latest example of how the heated rhetoric of the debt-ceiling debate quickly becomes fodder for fundraising appeals.

According to Politico, Pennsylvania Rep. Mike Doyle was the one who introduced the attack, saying at a meeting of House Democrats that a "small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money." Biden, trying to sell the group on the debt compromise, reportedly responded: "They have acted like terrorists."

Elections Biden later denied ever saying that.

"I did not use the terrorism word," he said in an interview for the "CBS Evening News." "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."

<more>

[Ian David]

1. Biden never tries to lie about anything he's actually said. n/t

[SlimJimmy]

2. Meh. This type of thing happens on both sides. We make hay out of repuke

misdeeds all the time. It makes for excellent political fodder, and brings in the cash.

[onehandle]

3. Biden was so fucking wrong to compare them to terrorists.

Teabaggers have done more damage to this country than terrorists ever have.

Joe let them off easy.




Heh. Joe was awesome.