Biden, in Nevada, accuses GOP ticket of 'blackmail' for tax stand
Source: LA Times
RENO, Nev. -- Vice President Joe Biden accused the Republican ticket of Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul D. Ryan of advocating "blackmail" for insisting on continuing the so-called Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, rather than continuing them only for middle-class taxpayers.
"Folks, that's blackmail," Biden told a cheering crowd of supporters in Reno. "That's blackmail."
It was one of many tough lines Biden delivered in the course of his speech in this battleground state, where polls have shown the race tightening substantially in recent weeks. He repeatedly charged that the Republican nominees are "out of touch" with the concerns of ordinary Americans, and mocked Romney for saying he had "binders full of women" when he was hiring staff as governor of Massachusetts.
Biden noted that Romney was asked in Tuesday's presidential debate with President Obama whether he supported equal pay for women. "He started by talking about binders," the vice president said, his tone incredulous. "Binders. ... Binders! Folks, talk about out of touch. And he never did answer the question of whether women are entitled to equal pay for equal work."
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-biden-gop-taxes-blackmail-20121017,0,6002957.story
The GOP seems to like blackmail and extortion with candidates asking corporations to threaten to fire workers if Democrats win.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)The House and Senate Republicans are terrorists and traitors.
Period.
skeewee08
(1,983 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)sevenseas
(114 posts)I am afraid one of those skinhead types might try to assassinate either Biden or Obama.
What am I saying? There are also many good ol' boys who would stand in line for a chance to shoot.
What am I saying? There are also tea party far reich extremists that would not only shoot if they had the chance, but stand and cheer if they heard about an assassination.
The Republican party has become a party of evil and hatred.
They (Republican leaders, and people like Rove), ALLOWED their party be taken over and now it may be their own destruction for not drawing the line on how it slid so far right.
It is now being run with hatred for anyone who does not goose-step to their ideas.
Even that creep, Ryan's son, voiced a desire to commit violence.
That is how they think.