Just a quick scan of headlines:
Time Magazine – Obama Senior Adviser [Dan Pfeiffer] Compares Republicans To Terrorists [1]:
In the latest escalation in the Obama administration’s war of words with congressional Republicans, White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer compared the GOP to terrorists in an interview on CNN Thursday. ”We are for cutting spending. We are for reforming out tax codes, reforming out entitlements,” Pfeiffer told Jake Tapper. “What we’re not for is negotiating with people with a bomb strapped to their chest. We’re not going to do that.”
Politico – Al Gore: Government shutdown ‘political terrorism’ [2]
Former Vice President Al Gore took Republicans to task Friday for risking a government shutdown, calling it “political terrorism.”
“I think the only phrase that describes it is political terrorism. ‘Nice global economy you got there, be a shame if we had to destroy it. We have a list of demands. If you don’t meet them all by our deadline, we’ll blow up the global economy,’” Gore said Friday at the Brookings Institution.
Gore had a question for those engaging in the “despicable and dishonorable threat” to shut down government over Obamacare.
“How dare you?”
The Hill – Harkin: Tea Party ‘every bit’ as dangerous to nation as the Civil War [3]:
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) on Friday said that the Tea Party movement is just as dangerous for America as the Civil War.
“A small group of willful men and women who have a certain ideology about how our country should run and what we should do cannot get their way in a normal discourse and votes,” Harkin said. “Since they can’t get their way, they’re going to create this confusion and discourse and hope the public is so mixed up in who to blame for this that perhaps they’ll blame both sides.”
“That is the path they see for taking over the government. It’s dangerous, very dangerous. … Every bit as dangerous as the break up and the Civil War.”
And the Democrat/MSM theme of the day from Obama allies like former senior adviser Bill Burton:
Right bc the president of Iran is willing to make more progress than him. MT @kasie [4] GOP aide: potus hasn't called Speaker Boehner this week.
— Bill Burton (@billburton) September 27, 2013 [5]
Because we should trust a Holocaust-denying thug [6] more than the political opposition here at home, right?
@ron_fournier [7] This week Rouhani addressed it. The problem is that such lies validated by mainstream rptrs give lift to right wing extremity
— Bill Burton (@billburton) September 27, 2013 [8]
It’s amazing how little it takes for Useful Idiots like Bill Burton to believe dangerous “world leaders” who magically all of a sudden have the world’s best interests at heart. We’ve been down this road before, haven’t we [9]? When will these dum dums ever learn?
In the meantime, for opposing Obamacare, and for NOT believing – based on what decades of history tells us – that Iran’s newest “leader” is sincere in his attempts to “build a bridge” with the US, we’re the terrorists.
Disturbing. I remember once when Democrats thought dissent was the highest form of patriotism …
