Biden: If I hear one more GOP budget gripe, 'I am going to strangle them'

[babylonsister]

:rofl: I can't even imagine the headlines in the a.m.: "VP threatens murder"?

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/122763-biden-if-i-hear-one-more-gop-budget-gripe-i-am-going-to-strangle-them

Biden: If I hear one more GOP budget gripe, 'I am going to strangle them'
By Michael O'Brien - 10/05/10 05:14 PM ET


Vice President Biden jokingly expressed his frustration toward Republicans on Tuesday, accusing them of having insincere concerns about the budget deficit.

Biden jokingly said that GOP protests about the need for a balanced budget made him want to strangle them, which the vice president quickly clarified was a figure of speech.

“If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them,” Biden said at a fundraiser in Minnesota, according to a pool report. “To the press, that’s a figure of speech.”

President Obama and other members of the administration have ridiculed Republicans as trying to have it both ways on budget issues. For all the GOP's complaints about the ballooning deficit over the past 20 months, Democrats charge, their plan to extend all tax cuts for top earners would add hundreds of billions to the debt.

“These guys have absolutely no credibility, no credibility on debt,” Biden said.

But Republicans argue that the administration has been reckless in its handling of the economy, pointing foremost to the administration's $787 billion stimulus plan, which Republicans assert has not created jobs at a massive cost to taxpayers.

[Sanity Claws]

1. I'd be glad to help him -- wonder if I should send some rope

[pleah]

2. K&R “To the press, that’s a figure of speech.”

;)

[zipplewrath]

3. They really don't

I just don't understand how a party that passed Medicare Part D with no intention of paying for it, and ran up war debt which they refused to pay, not to mention cut taxes that we didn't pay for, and had a VP that announced "deficits don't matter" can say ANYTHING credible about the debt.

[elleng]

4. and THEIR unfunded WAR!!!

[old mark]

5. Joe for President 2016! I love that guy!...nt

[Arkana]

6. Give Joe a pickaxe and send him to the Republican cloakroom, Mr. President!

[FirstTimeVoterAt37]

7. Go get em' Uncle Joe!

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. I don't understand why people don't like Joe. He speaks the unvarnished TRUTH! Go, Joe!!!! n/t

[babylonsister]

10. Maybe BECAUSE he speaks the truth? nt

[jillan]

9. No one can say it better than Joe!

:rofl: He says what everyone else is thinking.

[Inchworm]

11. Go Joe!

:applause:

[cal04]

12. Love it! You go Joe!!

:woohoo:

[scheming daemons]

13. Fox News Headline: "Vice President Threatens to Kill GOP Congressmen"

...

[ClarkUSA]

14. Looking forward to supporting the Obama/Biden ticket redux in 2012!

[Hekate]

15. I love that guy. Ever since I watched him chew out a Repub at a Senate hearing...

... on the Iraq war, I have loved him.

Disclaimer: It might not have been a Repub per se. I think the hearing was in regards to defense contractors sending shoddy equipment and supplies to our troops. Or not. Whatever it was for, the chewing-out was a thing of beauty.

Hekate

[ProgressOnTheMove]

16. I say go figure (of speech obviously)