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Audio: VP Biden Praises Union Protestors Keeping GOP ‘Barbarians From the Gate’

During a conference call with thousands of activists Thursday, Vice President Joe Biden joined Labor Secretary Hilda Solis and AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka in commending union protesters for standing up to Republicans across the country.

“You guys built the middle class,“ Biden said during the ”virtual town hall” conversation hosted by the AFL-CIO. “I would just emphasize what Hilda [Solis] said and say it slightly different: We don’t see the value of collective bargaining, we see the absolute positive necessity of collective bargaining.

“Let’s get something straight,” he continued. “The only people who have the capacity — organizational capacity and muscle — to keep, as they say, the barbarians from the gate, is organized labor. And make no mistake about it, the guys on the other team get it. They know if they cripple labor, the gate is open, man. The gate is wide open. And we know that too.”

Biden also recognized the union activists for being a driving force behind his own political career. “I’ve got to state the obvious,” he said. “There’s an old expression: ‘You go home with them that brung you to the dance.’ You guys all brought me to the dance 36 years ago in Delaware as a United States senator. You’ve been with me, and I’ve stayed with you.”

In a more impassioned plea, Biden criticized conservatives for their “orgy” of greed, which he claimed led to the recent economic downturn.

“I find this ridiculous,” he said. “The very philosophy, the very conservative people who got us in this ditch, who created — through their greed — this orgy of focusing on the super wealthy and Wall Street without regulations, the very people who drove us into this ditch, are now the people using you guys as the scapegoats. This is what you call blaming the victim. The people of the neighborhoods we all grew up in and you guys live in, organized labor, they’re the very people getting killed right now by this economy. And the audacity these guys that come along and say, ‘Hey, this is the fault of collective bargaining’ — that is malarkey.”

“I’m available, I’m here, I’m working with you, I wish I could be even more effective than we’ve been, but this is only the beginning of the fight,” he concluded.

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  • JP4JOY
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:05pm

    It was a dark day for Henry Ford when FMC was forced to join the UAW. He was paying benefits and wages higher than ANY other automobile manufacturer but the openly communist UAW caused Ford to capitulate using brutal thugs which killed several workers shut down assembly lines using sabotage and had threatened to burn the facility to the ground.

    Yes, there are numerous benefits the unions got for workers, vacations, 40 hour weeks, sick pay, reasonable concessions, but the power of the unions has corrupted the leadership as power always does. The unions should not be empowered to hold hostage their employer or the taxpayer.

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    • kathydan59
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:23am

      you are absolutely right about unions, my husband and myself are both retired from GM ( I mean Goverment Motors Now) yes, the company didn’t do things the way they should have, but I will tell you that the union hel[ped bring down GM, don’t know how many people out there know this but in 2006 our plant was shut down, we had a choice either do community service, go to college, get laid off (unemployment) or go sit in a warehouse that they call Job Banks the people that chose anything but unemployment got there 40 hr check every week. My husband and I went to college. We mostly took online classes so never had to leave our home. Our tuition was paid for by the company. Wow, what a deal huh? My husband took computer classes and in one of his classes there was a GM worker that had been in Job Banks for 9 years, he has 3 degrees. When GM offered the buy outs in 2007, my husband asked him if he was going to take it, he said no because he couldn’t find a job that would pay him as much. We both thought total abuse by the union. Luckily the job banks was defunded and ended soon after but the union fought and fought to keep it. Shortly after that BANKRUPCTY I wonder what would have happened to GM without the union having so much power. We still get calls from them to support the democratic party we tell the m hell no and hang up. The unions are out for themselves and that all there is to it. POWER

       
  • matt708
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:05pm

    joe you are suppose to represent the all the people not just the people who give you money to stay in politics. Impeach this idiot

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  • Its Gonna Getcha
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:03pm

    His face lift is a little tight, wouldn’t you say?

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  • WHITE LOTUS2x
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:01pm

    Ther will only be blood in the streets if they get“their civil war”. They seem to want just that. What drives these people, they are pathetic fools,all of them. There is an old saying, you dont kow what you got till its gone. But, it will be too late.

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  • GIDEON612
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:59pm

    @ Randy
    I agree with you and that is why we cannot be the ones to get physical or lower ourselves to their level at all. This is why they are so ticked and you see them coming apart from within and beating each other. They were sure that the uneducated, gun toting, racist right wing wackos would have snapped by now. It is so funny, yet sad, to see what they use to grasp at straws with.
    This is how dumb they have gotten the people. My own brother argues with me and told me that the media was controlled by the right. Yea, there’s another wtf moment.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:51am

      You’ve got that right, they’re probably pulling their hair out right now, sure they’d have had the right to declare martial law by now.
      I used to get the Financial alerts from Newsmax, and discovered they were actually written by soros partner at quantum investment group. For nearly 3 yrs before 08 you could read the screaming between the lines because the $ was just toooooo high for toooooo long, it just had to break, they’d advise you to put your money in commodities, because they’d last when the $ broke. I think it may have been them who finally put out the list of 7 banks about to fail, that caused the run on them and became a “self-fulfilling-prophecy.
      The progs can’t stand it when someone is actually better controlled than they, so let’s keep on praying, and obeying, and let them, “fall, withal, into their own nets.”

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  • Michael
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:59pm

    Say it ain’t so, Joe? You haven’t let me down. You have stuck to your progressive vews. I knew you were a bonafide butt head. I guess that I have never seen a bigger jerk vice president and believe me we have had them, on both sides.

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  • NO1tellntruth
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:57pm

    Just like we ALL already knew. The recovery act was to pay off the UNIONS.
    Man we gotta STOP these real barbarians.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:13pm

      It’s more than that, from what I’ve read. The union campaign donations came from the pension funds, in amounts so large the unions risked being unable to cover existing retirees and a large number of members soon to be collecting. In sum, possible insolvency. Had Obow not bailed them out, the repercussions would have been enormous.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:33pm

      Up State…so you’re saying they robbed Peter to pay Paul…..and now we are paying?

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:02am

      @NancyBee

      Pretty much, from some of the things I have read. It seems a possible scenario, considering the amounts the unions donated to the Democrats as a Party and to individual candidates. Unless the unions somehow save a portion of members‘ dues to build a political ’war chest’, the only other place that kind of money could be sitting is in the pension funds. I used a search engine a short while ago, but didn’t save the site addresses.

      A further backup, for me at least, is how the unions got a portion of the stocks in GM after Obow bailed out the company. Soon as GM became somewhat solvent, the union cashed in the stocks at about $33 a share. The government holds another portion of the stocks available, but in order for the Treasury to break even on the bailout, the stock has to rise to between $55 and $95 a share. And God knows how long that might take.

      The unions got paid first in the while deal, instead of the taxpayers.

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  • endgamer
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:57pm

    The problem is Keynesian economics an fiat money. When the money is constantly debased (inflated) there are always the ones at the bottom the keep getting the squeeze. Higher minimum wages, more perks for unions and higher pay is simply chasing created inflation and you will NEVER get ahead!. Inflation puts the squeeze on manufacturers and when inflation hits them and they’re STUCK with high paying union jobs, higher manufacturing costs, and higher costs to do business overall then loking overseas to solve the problem usually makes sense for a company to survive. Starting with the MONEY is where we should be and we wouldn’t have to worry about inflation. This country had near ZERO overall inflation for the first 150 years of our existence. In 1971 Nixon flipped the switch and left the gold and silver standard entirely. We have had boom and bust economies completely controlled by bankers since 1971. Look it up! Follow the money and in this case the MONEY is the problem. Lets fix that first by ending the FEDERAL RESERVE and return to the gold standard. We will then have to re-train our youth to be able to read an employee manual since these same progressives “dumbed down” the curriculums nationwide..Roll up your sleeves folks, this is going to be an interesting ride!

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    • vennoye
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:21pm

      Not going to be that easy………not just Federal Reserve…look at the correlation between the Federal Reserve, IMF and World Bank.

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    • endgamer
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 6:54am

      Vennoye, Then you agree that the money is the problem. I do agree it was pressure from the international bankers that caused this mess in the first place. This issue predates the revolutionary war in it’s roots. How do we stop that? Starting with George Soros? Van Jones? I think you have to go to the top. We’re mid level at best with Soros.

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  • Anamah
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:56pm

    How many days remains still have these people saying non sense about every thing… I am so tired of all of them!!!

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  • shutch4251
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:56pm

    i cant believe the ‘malarkey’ that comes out of this guy’s mouth..

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  • Marylou7
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:56pm

    I have never in my lifetime seen a Pres and VP who have so much disgust for their own country and it’s citizens. Why don’t you two just leave, go stay with your buddy Chavez or anywhere but here.

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    • OhSuzieQ
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:37am

      MaryLou..couldn’t have said it better myself!! :-)

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:53pm

    “…’Let’s get something straight,’ he continued. ‘The only people who have the capacity — organizational capacity and muscle — to keep, as they say, the barbarians from the gate, is organized labor…’”

    ‘Muscle’? What’s that supposed to mean, from a man who’s supposed to be VP of all Americans?

    “…Biden also recognized the union activists for being a driving force behind his own political career. ‘I’ve got to state the obvious,’ he said. ‘There’s an old expression: ‘You go home with them that brung you to the dance.’ You guys all brought me to the dance 36 years ago in Delaware as a United States senator. You’ve been with me, and I’ve stayed with you…’”

    Sounds to me like a slip about how the unions bought his votes for thirty-six years. Or is that too cynical?

    The Dems are beholding to ‘big money’ and ‘rich fat cats’, too. Anyone who truly believes otherwise is no more than a partisan hack.

    Unless Joe was blowing sunshine in their collective ear in a bid for more campaign contributions, it sounds to me like our esteemed(?) VP just gave unions tacit permission and his full support to do anything they want.

    Woe to the Republic…

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    • bookofdaniel
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:09am

      Dems take money from rich folk just like repubs. The difference is the rich repubs give their own money earned in business. The rich dems give money taken from the little people through unions.

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  • Katt_Mandu
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:51pm

    Joe Biden flips his plugged lid again.

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  • MidWestMom
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:51pm

    OMG – what a idiotic twit. For his own good – somebody get the muzzle.

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  • teachermitch32
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:50pm

    Again, NO solutions for our debts (whether local, state or federal)…just campaigning for 2012. Isn’t it obvious?

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  • AmericanStrega
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:50pm

    I can’t…He just said…But he just don get….Oh, why bother. Biden is just another Union Tool taking up for the money-men/women who has put him into and are keeping him in, office. Geez!

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  • Hillbilly Tim
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:49pm

    Joe Biden is an egg sucking dog who is incapable of intelligent thought.

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:56pm

      My dogs resent the comparison!

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:11pm

      My dogs are upset too…Couldn’t you have said ……”egg sucking coyote?”

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    • Dale
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:17pm

      or roach.

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:18pm

      and so does my dog! see her? center right in ma pic there…..

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:38pm

      “ Joe Bidden is an egg sucking dog ” is an insult to ALL dogs. No, he’s more of a s—t eating pig, but wait, we don‘t won’t to offend pigs either. Ha

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  • randy
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:46pm

    Am I crazy or does it seem like Washington wants a civil war in this country?

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    • exdem
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:58pm

      Your not crazy.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:58pm

      Well you are crazy, but not wrong!

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    • AmericanStrega
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:00pm

      You’re not crazy my friend. May I call you “friend”? This is all part of their plan. Here’s my opinion: Obama will lose in 2012. The riots will start, and while Obama is finishing his final days of his term, he will declare marshal law to stop the riots to “protect” America and her citizens. This will, in effect, make him the first American dictator. If any of you live in big metro cities you should start getting the heck out now. Us here in the “fly-over” states have seen this coming for years. Well, us in the rural areas, our “big” cities will be rioting as well. We’ve all got two,( approx.), years to start stocking up on food, water, guns, and ammo for when the crap hits the fan. PREPARE! Me and mine are. Good luck and God bless.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:00pm

      Randy….you are not crazy……………….all I know is………We’ve got to get these people out of the White House .They are not for our country….they are only for their special interest groups. I do believe that want all kinds of chaos going on in the streets….Biden sold out long time ago and he still is…

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    • sissykatz
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:02pm

      Randy

      I think maybe you are right!!!! As far as I know we have never had a President that was against the Majority of the country, and so blatanly open and obvious about it. He sues Arizona and stops them at every pass. He passes the Health care knowing most of the county did not want it. As a sitting President he puts down the GOP and talks like we are fools and “laughs” at the Tea Party like it is a joke. At least half if not more of the country are against Unions and that doesn’t matter to him either. He is just the President for the Progressives…….. the rest of us are in his way. He has just about created a civil war. Us against them..

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    • David Zuckerman
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:12pm

      No, they don’t want a civil war. They think We, The People will continue to sit back and allow what has been going on for years to continue. So a civil war they are not expecting. That gives us the element of surprise. Where do I sign up?

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:15pm

      Well Randy—It sure seems so
      Jesse/Sharpo/Trumpkee are leading the way
      BHO says “…assault on Unions…” (regarding Wisconsin)
      My question IF Biden dances,does he do it well?
      God Help America!!!

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    • bookofdaniel
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:59pm

      Not sure if they want a civil war… but they will get it.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:45pm

    Aye Lad, thwart the Elephants storming the frontier. Back when I was a lad, in Conecticut, riding the train, I remember when Ghangis Khan stormed the beaches of Newark. Yes, the Union lads banded together and we Watched FDR and the Geddy burg speech on the ray TV. That was after me and Nancy dropped a huge load of LSD man. That was cool…….What was the question again????

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  • Dale
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:45pm

    Stupid is as stupid does without a proper historical foundation.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:32pm

      Unions are the biggest contributors to American jobs being sent to other countries. Unions that only seek higher wages, union benefits and programs that bankrupt companies aren‘t the working man’s friends.

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  • Wdawg
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:44pm

    Do you like having a 40 hour work week!?

    Thank a Union!

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    • Diane TX
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:52pm

      Why? The ones that make the big bucks work more than 40 hours a week. They are usually salaried and/or CEO’s and/or business owners.

      The people who work 40 hours a week are just paid labor.

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    • teachermitch32
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:53pm

      Being self employed I have not had a 40 hour week in decades…dog-of-dog. Thought no body would recognize you, huh?

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    • Justthefactsmam
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:56pm

      So you must be thinking we should be going towards the european 24-32 hour work week with 12+ weeks of vacation??

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:58pm

      When I worked for the newspaper, I was hired to work 20 hours a week. It was seldom that I turned in a timesheet with 40 hours on it over a two-week period. It was frequently between 90 and 120 hours, and I didn’t even put all my time down.

      Some things are more important than the dollars shown on the paycheck. What was important to me was whether I enjoyed the work required of me to do a good job. I received a raise, and the circulation increased. After I left, the papers did not sell. For two years I received phone calls from the readers asking for me to come back.

      A 40-hour work week means nothing to me. I’d rather not have the unions.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:01pm

      Why the union in Wisconsin, my exorbitantly high taxes that get taken out of my paycheck to pay for these unions are causing me to have to get another job just to keep my head above water. Yes TY unions for screwing the middle class again. Dawg, I think it is time your got yourself all growded up and go out into the real world. Ya know where you actually have to work for a living and not get paid by the post from groups like Mediamatters and moveon.org.

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    • tankerBigRed1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:02pm

      haven’t seen a 40 hr week since 64- course dats cuz I am a producer not a lazy union thug..

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:04pm

      Only time I work as little as 40 a week is when I am on vacation.

      There was a time for unions. They are not needed now though, they are leeches.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:10pm

      @Hawt‘n’secksie
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:04pm
      I don’t like how everyone in unions is so much more physically attractive than non union workers. It’s like you have to pass a hawtness test to get in, and that is fundamentally unfair. Same thing with body smell. Union workers have a much more prolific body smell than everyone else. Why do they have to hog the body smell?
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Whew! I‘m glad to see that you aren’t a union member, if what you say is true!

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    • tankerBigRed1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:16pm

      @ Diane TX- you didn’t get it quite right- not paid labor – should be incompetence / lazy overpaid labor.

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    • marine249
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:20pm

      WDAWG
      I was a Marine[ still am ] a Peace Officer [ still am ret ] and a
      small busnsss owner never worked just a 40 hr week.

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    • mauijonny
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Like having an idiot for VP of the U.S. of A (that refers to the Unionized States of America, not the other one the rest of us live in)?

      Thank a union!!!

      Now, unions, you have served your purpose…thank you. You’ve been a corrupt monster ever since…buh-bye.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:14am

      That’s interesting, my post disappeared, was reported, and now it’s back. Thanks Huffpo god.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:15am

      My post is awaiting moderation. Stand by.

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:28am

      @Wdawg
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:44pm
      Do you like having a 40 hour work week!?

      Thank a Union!

      **************************
      If you’re a small business owner or management and work a 55-70 hr week and get taxed at 35%-40% thank a union .(And Pres Reagon that you still have SOME left.)

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    • bigbro
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:32am

      Has it changed since Huffpo arrived?

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  • dscon
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:44pm

    Add your comments

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:50pm

      I can’t. They’d be censored!

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:18pm

      @ Showtime
      Wouldn’t it be nice if the how and who and whys of this censorship policy gets explained ?
      There is no consistency and I notice the effort is more to make ANY discussion look like some kind of incoherent disjointed ramblings by a bunch of trolls who jump the subject to blather like Biden

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:25pm

      I’ve been trying to figure out the censor policy too…It doesn’t make any sense …

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    • Dannowood
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:52pm

      War? Against the U.S. taxpayer? His remarks are treasonist. Please Joe send your commie union thugs here to S.W. Arkansas and let the carnage begin.

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  • iwantmydamncountryback
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:44pm

    biden is just another soros puppet..so is anyone really shocked he supports the protestors? wait till the real protests start at the gate when we take our country back and get back to basics of what made this country so great!

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    • alikat
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:16pm

      It’s so difficult to wrap your mind around. They want to teach homosexuality in the schools, rioting in the streets, guns only for the unlawful, open borders for criminals, allowing the use of unlawful SS#’s, etc. and they call us barbarians? And I‘m not saying that there’s not a lot of work to be done in this country…there is…there’s so much fraud done to all Americans…God Bless you Patriots :)

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  • marine249
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:43pm

    why is it part of the vp job to side with the union
    I thought he was the vp for ll the people

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:56pm

      He is! He’s VP for all of HIS people. Minor distinction but to him all the difference in the world.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:05pm

      Well, DUH!
      Marine, SOMEBODY had to read the teleprompter in Obama’s absence!

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:43pm

      Just like Obama … he is of and for the Unions .. the rest of us .. not so much!

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    • constitutionparty
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:23am

      How about that.. the unions owns a President and a Vice President. And everybody wonders where their union dues go. No corruption here!

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    • constitutionparty
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:32am

      What is the going rate today for a VP today? With inflation it must be getting expensive. So I assume you only help the people that “Brung ya”

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:22pm

      REPLY TO MARINE249
      No Joe Bidden is the VP of the liberal democrats and Barack Obama is their president. To them if you are a republican conservative you have become the enemy. If you disagree with their policies you became a racist. , If you refuse to go along with the program, their’s, you’re an outcast and perona non grata….
      After being discharged from the USMC in the 60′s( 3 tours in Vietnam) I went to work for Bell Helicopter in my home town of Ft. Worth Texas. It ‘s workers are unionized in the UAW. Most people don’t know this but Walter Ruether was the president of UAW for many years. He and his brother, another union thug, went to Russia to learn from the communist how to unionize workers and take control of the companies they worked for through strong arm tactics. They were communist.

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  • Robert-CA
    Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:40pm

    Yep Joe praise the thugs .

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    • Revere1
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:49pm

      Biden is a joke, and so is his claim that the unions represent the interests of the middle class and working class. They don’t. They’re only interested in propping up a failing school system for their own benefit:

      http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/02/teachers-unions-explained.html

      What the middle class and working class actually want is a school system that will educate their children so they can compete in a global economy.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:50pm

      Rugs hearts thugs

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    • trolltrainer
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:51pm

      I am so through being angry at this administration. You have to be brain dead at this point to not understand what they stand for. They called me the enemy, so be it. I hold them in the same regard. All I can say is that when they are voted out they better peacefully leave.

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    • hifi74
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:52pm

      Barbarians??? Ok he’s got my curiosity piqued…. How exactly does he equate the GOP to barbarians when it is the nearly complete leftie union thugs and socialist/marxist groupies beating on people and destroying property? He’s screwy in the head.

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    • MiketheTrucker
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:54pm

      Typical Biden moment, has everything backward again.

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    • drbage
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 10:55pm

      I am just stunned despite all the idiocies that have poured out of his mouth over the past 36 years. More frightening is the fact that he gets sent to other countries to represent the United States!! I keep thinking that the progs will run out of epitaphs/slurs to throw at us, but the Center for American Progress must have a think tank working 24/7 to come up with new ones.
      So, you we’re barbarians. Well, let’s start building the Viking ships and catapults and prepare to lay seige!

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    • brliantedj
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:00pm

      I’m guessing your stance is against AMERICA, lets put it to a vote!!!

       
    • SlimnRanger
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:00pm

      Again lier,lier pants on fire Biden speaks with a forked tounge,but he has done it all his life i suppose

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    • nptden
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:02pm

      LOL, love it…Love the way they sell there souls…He’s not going to Heaven…His mom probably did, but he’s not…Joe , never understood the Unions where taken over by the Communist’s years ago. The mob just made it happen…They were honest, MONEY….But, guess what. The Commies got their goals of destroying our economy…The shipping industry, steel and small business….What happened to our manufacturing?…They destroyed it. So where did they go. PUBLIC employees…State, local, and Federal Govt…And everything they touch is incompetent….Post Office, et al….Wake up America.
      Sad thing is they got Cops and Fireman involved…Wait til they won‘t be able to cash in on their ’Pensions’… Bingo…The Commies will HAVE to take over……Wake up America.

      nptden  
    • Showtime
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:03pm

      Robert, the vast difference in this administration and what it should be was graphically illustrated by Glenn Beck’s “Speech from the White House” this afternoon.

      We have been rough-housed for so long that we have unfortunately become used to it.

      This regime seems to have forgotten that they are our employees, not our masters. And, this stand by Biden is inexcusable.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:06pm

      He’s screwy in the head.
      ———-
      Well he has had 2 Brain aneurysms,
      no wonder he hid his medical records.
      The rot in his brain is now giving a stench

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    • Stoic one
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:07pm

      His true colors are showing!

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    • ihveit
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:10pm

      he is the second most stupid idiot running this country he said: ” a more impassioned plea, Biden criticized conservatives for their “orgy” of greed, which he claimed led to the recent economic downturn. ”

      uhhh let me see…. when did obama become a republican? was i sleeping or something while the demoCRAPS were destroy the health care and running up the deficet? if this guy had a brain it would explode for being in the wrong world..
      will

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    • restorehope
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:18pm

      Is Biden living in a parallel universe? It wasn’t the unions that created the middle class….where did he get that from? There was a middle class long before there were unions. There have always been the wealthy, the poor and then those in the middle. That is just an economic reality and for Biden to give unions credit for carving out a middle class is absurd.

      As for his being in debt to the unions…..at least Biden is being truthful on this point. Another way he could have stated this is “You don’t bite the hand that feeds you”.

      No doubt at all that Biden’s love affair with unions is just payback. Unfortunately that makes him very suspect as VP to get involved at all in this argument. He has a vested interest in keeping the unions strong enough to continue supporting his own political career. Shall we say ‘conflict of interest’?

       
    • NomoObama
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:21pm

      But wait a minute Joey, i thought Blowbama and Reid said the economy is doing good. Fools can’t get it right. lmao.

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    • CatB
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:24pm

      Joe Biden is an idiot … and that is being kind .. because I don’t think he can help himself .. some other people SHOULD know better…..

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmRXH7RkCZQ

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    • bookofdaniel
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:30pm

      1st – In defending unions, Biden is only trying to save the democrat party not the workers.
      2nd – His argument for union is a micro cosom of the big government liberal progressive idealology Which is; you can’t do for self so you need a big organization to do for you.
      3rd – I’m from Delaware and Joe Biden does not live like the adverage person he claims to be like.
      4th – Joe Biden is an idiot.

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    • SavingtheRepublic.com
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:30pm

      Well there ya go more proof of how corrupt this WH is siding with the unions. What this also confirms is the “you rub my back ill rub yours” As far as the rules go you guys never play by them Joe. You guys are that kid(s) on the playground that in the middle of the game change the rules when you start losing.

      Labor MUST be crippled as it HAS crippled this atin and guy like YOU Joe are doing one h3ll of a job dividing this nation. My family was/is blue labor but they werent in any union. They just work hard and get what they earn unlike you and the zombie drones who do 40hrs of work but want 100hrs worth of benefits you degenerate.

      Joe leaves out that he payed a major role in driving this country down. This is unreal I cant listen to this LIAR anymore……..

      I hope you guys are getting the message from Biden, Obama and their zombie army… YOU the avg American not in their clique` are the enemy! Thats how they look at each and every one of us like we are the enemy for having common sense and expecting to get what we get in life b/c we earned it not b/c we think we should and unionize and protest expecting taxpayers to foot the bill or companies to make cuts etc in order to lay down under union pressure.

      The unions HAVE TO GO.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:36pm

      I do believe BHO is still potus because we sure don’t want Biden to take his place.

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    • butler180
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:42pm

      As usual you are right on point

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    • butler180
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:50pm

      JB does not want to loss the massive amounts of campaigne funding he receives from the Unions.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:56pm

      “Biden criticized conservatives for their “orgy” of greed, which he claimed led to the recent economic downturn.“ In the infamous words of Airhead Pelosi ”Are you kidding, are you kidding”. Joe, your money hungry corrupt hands are showing.

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:59pm

      All I can say is, what a fool, while shaking my head.

      All the public appearances Bidin does are like watching a youtube video of someone at a frat party or something, running around necked with his body painted green from head to toe, wearing a cheese hat…….It’s just someone making a fool out of himself and we and he wish we could forget it and get the image out of our heads. But we can‘t because it’s on youtube and is showing half a million views!

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    • thepatriotdave
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:08am

      “You guys built the middle class,”
      ————————————————
      No Joe, you got it all wrong again!
      Those guys destroyed the middle class. If you don’t believe me just go around and ask factories that were Union but have since moved to other countries. You will get the same story… “The Unions were killing them and draining companies financially dry”. The end result was that the middle class in America got smaller and smaller and smaller.

      Who do you want to run for POTUS in 2012?
      http://www.americasteapartynews.com/tea-blog.php#/news/

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    • brliantedj
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:18am

      Lets hear that definition thing!!! Its definition I’M about!!!

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    • frw501
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 12:54am

      His hairplugs are restricting blood flow to his brain,

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    • joseph Fawcett
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:02am

      I will say this of Biden, he is not afraid to admit that he is bought and paid for by the Unions. He is working for them. (Maybe he was stupid to admit that in public, but now he has, we now can wait for Obama’s admission of guilt.

      wwwjosephfawcettart.com western artist

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    • getalong
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:11am

      “You go home with them that brung you to the dance” What an idiot. Bite-me calling others greedy is priceless. This is a guy who gives less than 1% of his yearly income to charity. After 36 years mooching off of taxpayers through his “public service”, I think its time for Bite-me to find a real job! The incompetency and corruption in this administration is mind-blowing!

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:08am

      Like they say, “Just Joe, bein’ Joe!”
      Unions “Built the Middle Class?” Naw, that’s “Destroying” the middle class. Pay to Play & Union Patronage means either the downtrodden poor or Super Rich will survive in their “Ideal World”.

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:09am

      @ getalong
      Remember this is the same pompous bombastic blowhard who still tells the story of how his first wife was killed by a drunk driver ,
      even though it has been proven that the man was NOT drunk and the woman was at fault. Biteme threatened the family of that man everytime they wanted to clear that man’s name and thus Biteme keeps the hoax going .
      What a fine example of upstanding character

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    • Mil Mom
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:19am

      @banjarmon
      Posted on March 17, 2011 at 11:36pm
      I do believe BHO is still potus because we sure don’t want Biden to take his place.

      **********************************
      Biden is BO’s “Life, or Impeachment” Insurance Policy; If anyone gets to him, we gotta deal with Joe runn‘ ta’ show!
      Same Puppeteer, different puppet on the string, but BO can read the teleprompter Joe breaks it.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:48am

      Is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression that every Progressive in the the federal government in D.C. has snorted one too many lines of cocaine?

      We the People are AT WAR with our own government!

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:49am

      the party of lie, cheat and steal,,,they’re special

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    • Thatsitivehadenough
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 4:36am

      The enemy inside America are the communist thugs who force unionism on people and then lie to the about what the final goal really is. Obama and Biden MUST go. 2012 cannot get here soon enough. I hope more Americans are waking up. Move on . org etc are front groups for the most anti-American people in my entire lifetime.

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    • Polk County Patriot
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 6:51am

      poor joe, he doesn’t get it…..stupid is as stupid does. One becomes the same as those he associates with. Much like the ones that trashed the WI capitol, Joe is trashing this great country.

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    • rodamaa
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:11am

      Any time any where I can piece together a complete detailed documentary with evidence that the ones that got us in this mess including the financial crisis was the Left. It has been documented by a great number of people and the facts and finger prints from these SOB’S[the Left] are there for all to see. They blame us for the mess when they purposely created it and then hide their dirty little secret. ACORN, the Midwest Academy and their agenda to destroy the capitalism. Of course, then had nothing to do with it. Yea. Biden, you communist piece of garbage, your day of reckoning will be here soon.

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    • Jackers
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 7:24am

      So much “civility” out of one mouth… Our line in the sand is getting deeper and wider as the American people rise up. No Union Monopolies = Less Union Dues = No Second Term for Obama and the Progressives… Any questions?

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    • Touche Turtle
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:09am

      And now you know FOR SURE who the President, the Vice President, and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis work for, and it is NOT for the American people. I guess the Unions will be the “dance partner” for these elected officials until the end which hopefully will be 2012!!! This Administration represents the most one-sided and divided agenda I have witnessed in my 64 years . . . . they promote goodies for one group (unions) over another, they promote racism and introduce it into every situation, and they totally disregard the wishes of the majority of Americans.

      For those of you who do NOT think this is serious, guess again. Our country is in terrible trouble, and if Big O is re-elected, these people will be in charge – not just for the next two years but the next SIX years. Do you think our country can endure this prolonged devastation? The “silent majority” needs to get busy and promote good solid candidates in 2012 because this could be our last chance to make a real difference!

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    • taxpayerunion
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:12am

      Unions destroyed the middle class. I can’t believe this is the vpotus speaking. Disgraceful !!!! Spouting nonsense!!

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    • constitutionparty
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 8:35am

      What ever happened to that ‘Civility’ thing we heard about?

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    • StonyBurk
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:03am

      God Love ya Joe — the Unions are the Democratic Party’s modern version of the Ku Klux Klan.The high tec lynchings of our post modern society require that the terrorism of Klan and their white bedsheets be replaced with something more palatable. The Democratic Party has elevated the Unions to the position once held exclusively by the Klan.Thank You Joe for giving me this opportunity to define your actions.
      Lest any child be left behind.

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:05am

      This is yet another example of the Executive Branch choosing sides. You are the Vice-President for all people, not just those with whom you agree. Act like it.

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    • tobywil2
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:07am

      Biden continues to perform his mission flawlessly. His mission? Remove any incentive to assassinate the President. http://commonsense21c.com/

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    • dgboy
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:18am

      Yeah Joe, praise them now because you will be booted out of office in 2012. Maybe you can become a full time Union activist!!!

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    • indy1
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:22am

      The Gaffe-o-matic is such a vitriolic, mean-spirited, brainless lib. Joe, are you going to give federal workers the same collective bargaining rights as the public employees in Wisconsin? I didn’t think so. It‘s obvious now that the whole Tucson media putsch and Obama speech of January ’11 was to destroy Sarah Palin. The lib media and Democrats don‘t even hide their violent rhetoric and hate and it’s only been 2 months since they declared a new era of civility.

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    • Lotus503
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 9:58am

      Words from a bumbling idiot…

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    • mikem1969
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:24am

      Once again the left calls for violence and a fight against what is right. Time to flush the rest of the crap down the toilet in 2012.

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    • G.W. Dobbs
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 10:50am

      Joe Biden has NEVER had an original thought. Here, he ADMITS the UNIONS bought him and own him.
      Biden encourages VIOLENCE talking of “muscle” and “fighting”. In other words, if Unions lose the debate, go to the streets and TAKE what you want, a la Jesse Jackson. I have no respect for Biden or Jackson; they both are opportunists. That is all they are.

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    • Hugh Williams
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:10am

      Will the government media hold Biden accountable when his rhetoric encourages union thugs to lash out in an AZ type attack against conservatives ??????? We all know the answer is NO!!!!! Prepare people WAR is coming. We all must follow Lord Obama’s advice. If they bring a knife we bring a gun.

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    • allvoss
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:21am

      Don’t mess with Joe!……hahahahahahah

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    • GODSAMERICA
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 11:30am

      #1 biden just admitted that he is bought and paid for by the union thugs.
      #2 biden just admitted (even though we already knew) that he cares nothing about the American people
      #3 as usual biden is wrong – the union thugs did NOT “build the middle class”, with the help of their bought and paid for cronies, they have been working all these years to build up their own elitist gang to the detriment of everyone else.
      #4 the number one rule: don’t trust crooked politicians and their paid for thugs!

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:14pm

      Well Mr. Biden since you like old sayings so much and in honor of Saint Patrick’s Day:

      “Constant (liberal) company wears out its welcome.”

      “As honest as a cat when the meat is out of reach.” — We can’t keep the meat (money) far enough out of your reach to keep you honest Mr. Vice President.

      “Long churning makes bad butter.” — The churning is government spending and the bad butter is our deficit/debt.

      “Don’t let your tongue cut your throat.” — You must have a lot of scars on your neck Mr. Vice President.

      “A loud voice can make even the truth sound foolish.” — In Weiner and O‘Donnells case it’s the loudest voice drowns out the truth.

      “Better an idle house than a bad tenant.” — We have an idle White House with a bad tenant.

      “A little of anything isn’t worth a pin; but a wee bit of sense is worth a lot.” — You must not have any worth Mr. Vice President.

      “A wise head keeps a shut mouth.” — Please head this advise Mr. Vice President.

      “Be kind to those that meet you as you rise, you may pass them again as you fall.” — We republicans will remember the way you spoke of us Mr. Vice President.

      “Don’t bid the devil good day till you meet him.” — Good day Mr. President and Vice President.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 1:46pm

      Joe’s is an idiot. Unions destroyed the middle class by sending jobs out of the country at breakneck speed. The only reason public unions are still strong is the supposed bottomless pit of tax dollars they feed on. But guess what Joe you effing moron we reached the bottom of that pit. And then started barrowing from other country‘s now that’s coming to an end and you ******** want to dig a bigger pit(increase taxes) to pay for jobs and bureaucracies that aren’t the federal governments responsibility or constitutional right in the first place. IT’S TIME FOR REAL HOPE AND REAL CHANGE. NOT MORE ENTITLEMNET S AND LIP SERVICE

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    • pajamash
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:19pm

      It appears Biden will do anything to advance his cause:

      http://stevemaloneygop.blogspot.com/2009/04/bidens-lies-about-wifes-death.html

      http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/09/20/why-media-allowing-joe-biden-lie-about-drunk-driver-killing-his-

      http://roundtable.truck.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=75279&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

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    • michael48
      Posted on March 18, 2011 at 2:30pm

      this clown hasn’t a clue ….hand him a shovel he wouldn’t be able to figure out the working end…and indeed I’m the enemy…vet 66′-68′ 11B40 US Intantry…..and your record ???bite me????…$71.00 a month to kill COMRADES…dam sure not going to take orders from THE DEM-COMS…make book on THAT !!!!!!!!!!

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    • Sparky101
      Posted on March 19, 2011 at 1:28am

      Joe is such a “divider.” And yet, he is Vice President. What a barbarian he is to play sides. So, I guess he really isn’t my Vice President after all. Nope, he is Vice President for the Union thugs, and not the USA. I hope he likes to read history in retirement, because he will be history in 2012.

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    • UPSETVET
      Posted on March 19, 2011 at 4:06pm

      Yea, Jimmy Hoffa was an excelent example of union leadership. He kept the rank and file happy but didn’t do so well with his partnership with the mafia.

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