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by Hunter
Joe Biden, earlier today, talking about Republicans and Mitt Romney's vow to "unchain" the big Wall Street banks:
Look at what they value, and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let thehe said in the first hundred dayshe's gonna let the big banks once again write their own rules. "Unchain!" Wall Street. (Boos) They gonna put y'all back in chains. (Laughter, applause)
According to the Romney campaign, that up there is a "new low" in politics. No, they're sure of it. They're in total hissyfit mode, and making sure every pundit they know knows just how many fainting couches Mitt Romney had to personally buy his staff just to get them through the day. It's all right to speculate whether the president is or is not actually a Muslim who is secretly in league with terrorists, or to schedule a campaign event with the rich guy who says he's pretty damn sure the suspiciously black president wasn't even born in this country, thanks to super-amazing evidence he feels no need to share with anyone else. It's all right for Allen West to call opponents "members of the Communist Party" or for Michele Bachmann to demand investigations as to which ethnic people may or may not be terrorist sympathizers. It's all right to tell senior citizens that a plan to expand Medicare includes something called "death panels." It's perfectly fine to put out entire ad campaigns based on clipped footage to make someone appear to say something they didn't, or to claim that the very, very suspiciously black president is trying to make sure people on welfare never have to work when the actual program is explicitly supposed to do the opposite, and which you yourself endorsed wholeheartedly until the unbelievably suspiciously black president did the same damn thing. Going back a few years, it's all right to suggest that the current president's child is a "dog," or to send out tittering questions about how your white opponent has a suspiciously black kid, or to say meh, let's just fuck all national security laws entirely because we've got this really juicy story on how our momentary political thorn-in-the-side's wife actually works as an agent for the CIA.
But this? No, this is the "new low" in politics. None of the rest of that stuff can possibly compare. Mitt himself has explicitly declined to chastise the Bachmanns or the Trumps of the world, because it's just not his place, he says. Nope. Just this.
...While team Romney is accusing Biden of using a racial "code word", here's Mitt Romney himself, in his USA Today editorial from last December, demanding that we "remove the shackles of government." Discuss.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/14/1120120/-Romney-campaign-melting-down-over-Joe-Biden-comment-A-new-low-they-say
CHICAGO -- Today, Obama for America Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter released the following statement on Vice President Bidens comments in Danville, Virginia:
For months, Speaker Boehner, Congressman Ryan, and other Republicans have called for the unshackling of the private sector from regulations that protect Americans from risky financial deals and other reckless behavior that crashed our economy. Since then, the Vice President has often used a similar metaphor to describe the need to unshackle the middle class. Todays comments were a derivative of those remarks, describing the devastating impact letting Wall Street write its own rules again would have on middle class families. We find the Romney campaigns outrage over the Vice Presidents comments today hypocritical, particularly in light of their own candidates stump speech questioning the Presidents patriotism. Now, lets return to that substantive debate Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan promised 72 hours ago, but quickly abandoned.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/14/1120132/-Obama-for-America-s-statement-on-Vice-President-Biden-s-comments-in-Danville-VA
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)republicans have (for many election cycles) dominated when it comes to smash-face politics, and this time they are they ones taking it on the chin, and they don't like it one bit
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)given a pair of scissors!
catbyte
(34,170 posts)What a bunch of crybabies. You're not so tough, are you?
Edited for typo-whoopsie
FirstLight
(13,352 posts)"The Daily PWN!!!" GOBAMA!!!
berni_mccoy
(23,018 posts)LOVE IT!
Pukes can't stand to be called out for what they are really doing!
HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)LOL! Bullies aren't used to someone fighting back. What a bunch of whiney crybabies...
nichomachus
(12,754 posts)rfranklin
(13,200 posts)Geez, what a bunch of loser crybabies!
Whisp
(24,096 posts)but at least those stick out like a sore thumb and like the sore losers they are.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Sexist, yes, but brutally accurate.
still_one
(91,947 posts)Along with every vile name in the boat, this not only is the most hypocritical party but also most hateful in modern times
coalition_unwilling
(14,180 posts)STFU and release your god-damend tax returns, you fucking tax cheat.
WheelWalker
(8,943 posts)lpbk2713
(42,696 posts)Is it because they aren't used to Dems using truth to counter their bullshit?
[big] "WAAAH!! No fair using the truth against us!!" [/big]
time to shackle the Rolls Royce team to each other & Bush/Cheney
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)Lone_Star_Dem
(28,158 posts)They're not as stupid as his campaign seems to think they are.
DearAbby
(12,461 posts)Say it, and say it loud. They squeal like hogs when they are poked hard enough. Keep poking.
Freddie
(9,231 posts)spanone
(135,633 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)TDale313
(7,820 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)sibelian
(7,804 posts)THAT'S the phrase I'm posting in response to every single RW talking point I ever see ever again.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)The wallets of the 1%. Man, I dig Joe the most!
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Romney Demands an Apology for Biden Remark and Obama Laughs In His Face
http://www.politicususa.com/romney-demands-apology-biden-remark-obama-laughs-face.html
grantcart
(53,061 posts)SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Hey Romney, here's your waaambulance.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)"so you say that the President AGREES with the words Joe Biden used?" (meaning "here you go Romney camp, you can now do an ad that implies the President and VP are insensitive to slavery." Then Andrea says "So you're saying that the President agrees with the SENTIMENT, but not the words?" (meaning "another gift from me to Romney in that you can claim that Joe Biden is a loose cannon, and the President has no control over his racism." God.. she just spins so hard, trying to create material for Romney's people. But Cutter is a rockstar, she is unflappable, and does not go off message. She saw immediately that Mitchell was trying to imply that Biden made a gaffe.. or force her to say that it was a bad thing to say and that the President agreed with it.
Beautifully played.
Bonhomme Richard
(8,992 posts)throwing them for a loop. It used to be so easy when the Dems were just nice guys and turned the other cheek.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)for once, we have the initiative. Democrats are playing offense.
patrice
(47,992 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)I'm sure that line of attack will have a lot of credibility.
RedStateLiberal
(1,374 posts)Just more proof they are desperate, have nothing of substance to run on, will say anything to win, and are running the most dishonest campaign in modern history
DallasNE
(7,392 posts)And it avoids the over the top language Romney surrogates use, such as "dirty liar". I guess Romney likes to lob bombs from his glass house. But the damn things are failing to go off.
Whine away Mitt. Americans hate whiners. Especially privileged whiners.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Cause the last time I remember Mittens indulged in a poutraged demand for an apology was on July 14. Can we expect the next one on Sept 14? Then Oct 14? November 14?
Mittens. Same as last time, babykins.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Oh, and anyone wanna still talk about replacing Biden as VP? The man is extremely tough during a campaign.
who's talking about replacing Biden. that would be a stupid move.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)Like this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=68444
Really bothers me.
klook
(12,134 posts)... Resulting in "hails of derisive laughter," to quote Monty Python.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)then they cry to the media...what a couple wusses.
Romney must remember all those voices crying from his childhood when he bullied others. Isn't it amazing when they come crying over a little comment? Chain/unchain? Oh, my goodness.
Do you suppose Obama (who they called weak) cries to Michelle that they keep saying he isn't American, that he is a Muslim, that he wasn't a good student...on and on ad nauseum? Just look at the things they call/called him. Where were Bush and Clinton then?
This makes me very angry!
pa28
(6,145 posts)The link at KOS illustrates how Republicans have re-defined "low" in politics.
It's pretty damn low and they lost their right to complain a loooong time ago.
madville
(7,397 posts)The typical republican talking point along these lines is that the Democrats have kept generations of the poor "in chains" or "slavery" through the use of entitlements like food stamps, welfare, medicaid, etc in exchange for votes. Of course we don't believe that but I have heard it many times.
The last one I remember bringing that talking point up in the spotlight was Herman Cain during one of their debates if I remember right. I bet it will be repeated at some point in the next few days through surrogates on TV, radio, the internet, etc.
Vietnameravet
(1,085 posts)I just cant contain my anger when I hear the party of Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh talk about the Democrats hitting "new lows"
I would have said, "Screw those bastards!! Is that low enough for you Repubs?"
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)Say it loud, brother Biden.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)I can't believe Romney has the audacity to say he wants to unchain them.
vaberella
(24,634 posts)Seems normal to me.
Blue Owl
(49,913 posts)n/t
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)And yet they still come from my conservative friends and relatives. Now they're bitching. Do they really want to go there?
Check out some of these in this website that's a right wing mail forward "museum" from reader contributors who share the crap that floods their inboxes:
http://myrightwingdad.blogspot.com/
nradisic
(1,362 posts)I cannot wait for the Vice-Presidents to debate...
Vinca
(50,170 posts)When they've got ongoing wars on everything.
Warpy
(110,903 posts)It's like daylight, a cross or garlic to vampires.
Now if Biden wants to run with that analogy tomorrow, he can be my guest.
As long as Republicans are shrieking, he's doing something very right and needs to keep it up.
Democrats_win
(6,539 posts)How many more times will Romney cry "outrage" before people just turn him off?
Proles
(466 posts)Meanwhile, republicans actually spout baseless nonsense on a regular basis and are rarely called out on it. I guess people are just used to it, so when a Democrat is on the offensive, it seems shocking to them.
I say keep it up.
Raine
(30,540 posts)dogs. "Politics ain't beanbag".
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)Since when do BANKERS deserve some extra loving care, ESPECIALLY after this economic meltdown?
Which was CAUSED by bankers?
ailsagirl
(22,837 posts)If they can't stand the heat, they need to get the HELL out of the kitchen.
Hypocritical bastards
(I know--all cliches, but they fit so well)
Jim__
(14,045 posts)rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)Willie Horton, White Water, Impeaching President Clinton, Swift Boat, on and on and on
They have a helluva lotta nerve whining to Bill Clinton about hateful politics after the shit the bastards put him through for 8+ years