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Hey, Barney, isn’t it about time Democrats “differentiate themselves” from hateful speech of your colleagues?

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Last year, during “the healthcare debate’s final hours”, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) insisted that “his GOP colleagues need to do more to ‘differentiate themselves’ from the hateful speech spewed” by a handful of Tea Party protesters.

Now, instead of a few fringe members of the Tea Party making untoward comments about their ideological adversaries, we have members of the leadership of Mr. Frank’s party engaging in mean-spirited name-calling. According to Politico,

Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit, according to several sources in the room.

And he wasn’t alone.  Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi “pulled out a Star Wars reference on the House floor, saying that Speaker John Boehner chose to go to the dark side’ and court the most conservative members of his conference, rather than work on a bipartisan compromise.”   The New York Times called the better part of the debt deal “a nearly complete capitulation to the hostage-taking demands of Republican extremists.”

Sources in the paragraph above via James Taranto who reports today that the vice president’s office claims the Delaware Democrat did not use the term, but that members of Mr. Frank’s caucus did.  He also provides numerous examples of some very uncivil discourse on the left.  And over at the Sundries Shack, Jimmie offers a snapshot of some of the civil Democratic discourse during the debt debate. (Via Instapundit.)

Do hope Mr. Frank and his Democratic colleagues do more to ‘differentiate themselves’ from mean-spirited discourse.

Comments

  1. Boehner’s bill wasn’t bipartisan? Hey Nancy, how many Democrat votes did the Republican bill get? Didn’t it get over 70 total votes in Senate? And how many Republican votes did Pelosi’s Obamacare bill get? Oh, that’s right, it was bipartisan because Cao voted for it.

  3. Democrats won’t even call Nidal Hassan a terrorist, but they’ll call those who want the Government to live within a reasonable budget terrorists. That tells you everything you need to know about them.

  6. They’ve correctly named the emotion (terror), just not the source. It’s in themselves. They’re terrified of representatives who want budget control and of Republican leaders who won’t completely betray their caucuses. It might mean “the jig is up” for them.

  8. Sorry, sweetie. Economic terrorists very accurately describes the behaviour of that small minority that boxed in Boehner and were manipulated by McConnell to get us the disastrous piece of dreck that Obama signed yesterday. It’s worth noting that tea partiers represent what amounts to approx. 10% or perhaps a little less of the total population.

  9. Been missing you, Heliotrope. About 2 days ago we had a thread where Cas seriously tried to bring up Sweden as an example of leftist economic policy working. And she failed. Anyway, I kept thinking you would have enjoyed it.

  10. Heliotrope, ain’t that the truth, progressives I know adore Europe but bash America at every turn. Latest – Arizona is bad because it’s rest stops are clean and well maintained, must be evil Republicans.

  12. The difference is Democrats hear talk radio and think THEY should talk that way to rally support.
    What they don’t realize is Republicans can listen to hot political language as entertainment and still speak with civility to their supporters.

  14. It’s also crazy that the left apparently believes the desire of the Tea Party for affordable government and debt reduction is a big threat to the “Faith and Credit” of our country, but Obama’s massive unsustainable deficit spending isn’t.

  15. When a bubble is ready to collapse, its promoters will tell the investors (or suckers) to have faith. When it collapses, they will claim that it would have all worked out, if it wasn’t for those nasty people who changed the narrative and destroyed faith, by asking nasty questions.

    Enron was like that. The housing bubble was like that. The tech bubble was like that. Here, the bubble is in U.S. debt. (U.S. Treasury bonds and notes)

  18. If we’re terrorists, we should be getting tax payer funded guns from DoJ, money from CodePinko and “medical supplies” from the douchebag “blockade runners”, right?

  19. I Love Capitalism, I’ll do you one better

    Support for President Obama is a bubble starting to collapse.
    The promoters (DNC chairpeople ) will tell the suckers (Dem base) to have faith. When it collapses (next year), they will claim that it would have all worked out, if it wasn’t for those nasty people (Tea party) who changed the narrative and destroyed faith, by asking nasty questions.