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(41,505 posts) Mon Feb 6, 2012, 09:27 PM Feb 2012

Vice President Biden slams GOP hopefuls at fundraiser

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/02/06/biden-slams-gop-hopefuls-at-fundraiser/

Vice President Joe Biden ramped up his criticism of GOP presidential candidates on Monday, telling a crowd at a fundraiser in Florida that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich were woefully out of touch with economic reality.

"Mitt Romney says the best way to deal with foreclosures is to let everything hit the bottom," Biden said at a fundraiser in Tallahassee. "No, no, no, no – by the way, from purely a dollars and cents standpoint, he could get ready to argue that, that's right out of the business school manual. But guess what? We're not reorganizing and purchasing companies, we're trying to rebuild a country."

Biden hits Gingrich's food-stamp comment as 'inappropriate'

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/208981-biden-hits-gingrichs-food-stamp-comment-as-inappropriate

Vice President Biden attacked GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Monday, calling the former House Speaker "inappropriate" for labeling President Obama the "food stamp president."

Appearing at campaign stop in Tallahassee, Fla., Biden took aim at Gingrich and Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, saying the two Republicans are showing their true colors in their remarks in recent months.

"These are the same guys who are calling the president a 'food stamp president,' a thinly veiled — I don't know what it is, but it's inappropriate," Biden said. "It's inappropriate."

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"For the first time, the Republicans are not — to use a football metaphor, hiding the ball. They're saying exactly what they believe. For real, no, it's good. It's good because for the first time we can have an honest debate. These guys aren't out there saying, 'We're compassionate conservatives, we want to fight to protect Medicare and Medicaid.' They're just being straight up, saying what they believe."