Biden Scolds Democrats like Clinton, Strickland for Calling Republicans ‘Enemies’
Joe Biden jabbed at Democrats who regard Republicans as their “enemies” during remarks from the White House Wednesday.
After announcing that he would not run for president in 2016, the vice president tore into Democrats who have contributed to the “partisan politics that is ripping this country apart.” Both Hillary Clinton and Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Ohio, have recently cast Republicans as their “enemies.”
“It’s mean-spirited, it’s petty, and it’s gone on for much too long,” Biden said from the Rose Garden Wednesday. “I don’t believe, like some do, that it’s naïve to talk to Republicans. I don’t think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition, not our enemies.” http://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-scolds-democrats-like-clinton-strickland-for-calling-republicans-enemies/
Biden’s remarks came just days after Strickland, a former governor of Ohio, described incumbent Sen. Rob Portman (R.) as the “enemy” of himself and his fellow Democrats.
“I am running for this office and I am running against Rob Portman. He is our enemy,” Strickland said Monday evening at a Democratic Party event in Cincinnati.
Less than a week before, Hillary Clinton said during the first Democratic primary debate that Republicans were some of the “enemies” she is most proud of making.
“For the sake of the country, we have to work together,” Biden continued Wednesday afternoon. “As the president has said many times, compromise is not a dirty word, but look at it this way folks: How does this country function without consensus? How can we move forward without being able to arrive at consensus? Four more years of this kind of pitched battle may be more than this country can take. We have to change it.”
He echoed remarks he made the evening before at a gala in Washington, D.C.
“The other team is not the enemy,” Biden said Tuesday night. “If you treat it as the enemy there is no way we can ever solve the problems we have to.”
After announcing that he would not run for president in 2016, the vice president tore into Democrats who have contributed to the “partisan politics that is ripping this country apart.” Both Hillary Clinton and Ted Strickland, a Democratic candidate for Senate in Ohio, have recently cast Republicans as their “enemies.”
“It’s mean-spirited, it’s petty, and it’s gone on for much too long,” Biden said from the Rose Garden Wednesday. “I don’t believe, like some do, that it’s naïve to talk to Republicans. I don’t think we should look at Republicans as our enemies. They are our opposition, not our enemies.” http://freebeacon.com/politics/biden-scolds-democrats-like-clinton-strickland-for-calling-republicans-enemies/
Biden’s remarks came just days after Strickland, a former governor of Ohio, described incumbent Sen. Rob Portman (R.) as the “enemy” of himself and his fellow Democrats.
“I am running for this office and I am running against Rob Portman. He is our enemy,” Strickland said Monday evening at a Democratic Party event in Cincinnati.
Less than a week before, Hillary Clinton said during the first Democratic primary debate that Republicans were some of the “enemies” she is most proud of making.
“For the sake of the country, we have to work together,” Biden continued Wednesday afternoon. “As the president has said many times, compromise is not a dirty word, but look at it this way folks: How does this country function without consensus? How can we move forward without being able to arrive at consensus? Four more years of this kind of pitched battle may be more than this country can take. We have to change it.”
He echoed remarks he made the evening before at a gala in Washington, D.C.
“The other team is not the enemy,” Biden said Tuesday night. “If you treat it as the enemy there is no way we can ever solve the problems we have to.”
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Biden gets it that you can't make domestic political opposition your enemy and get things done for the people.
"Biden gets it that you can't make domestic political opposition your enemy and get things done for the people."
Well Biden is of course correct, so far as he goes, but Xx you're forgetting that for government to work you need Both sides to be willing to negotiate.
A Disloyal Opposition
On the very day of Mr. Obama’s first inauguration in 2009, a group of influential political leaders gathered at a Washington restaurant to discuss how they should respond to the new president’s election. A detailed account of the proceedings at that dinner, and the plan that was devised to make this a failed presidency, is given by Robert Draper in his book, Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the US House of Representatives.
A Master Plan of Obstruction
Here is how several news organizations reported what happened at that meeting:
On the night of Barack Obama’s inauguration, a group of top GOP luminaries quietly gathered in a Washington steakhouse to lick their wounds and ultimately create the outline of a plan for how to deal with the incoming administration. After three hours of strategizing, they decided they needed to fight Obama on everything. The new president had no idea what the Republicans were planning.
PBS Frontline documentary, Inside Obama’s Presidency.
They plotted a campaign of obstruction against newly installed president Barack Obama. During a lengthy discussion, the senior GOP members worked out a plan to repeatedly block Obama over the coming four years to try to ensure he would not be re-elected.
The Guardian newspaper (Great Britain)
In other words, there was nothing President Obama could have done to build common ground with Republicans. From the beginning, the plan was to relentlessly obstruct Obama, regardless of whether that was good for the country.
Jamelle Bouie, staff writer at The American Prospec
Setting out to say NO to everything, before one even knows what will be discussed, is pretty despicable but now we've got a Republican Congressman, (member of the Freedom Caucus of course), publicly announcing that should Hilary win the Presidency he wants her impeached on the day she takes office.
A GOP congressman wants to pre-impeach Hillary Clinton .
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) has probably set a new record in the unending impeach-a-president-I-don't-like competition. The previous record we've given to radio host Michael Savage, who called for Obama's impeachment in March of 2009 -- two months into the Obama administration.
Brooks's proposal? That, if elected, Hillary Rodham Clinton could be impeached on her first day in office. Brooks told radio host Matt Murphy that "she will be a unique president if she is elected by the public next November, because the day she's sworn in is the day that she's subject to impeachment because she has committed high crimes and misdemeanors," as reported by the Huffington Post.
Lets make a deal Xx.
I'll call up and tell Mrs. Clinton to tone down the rhetoric of referring to Republicans as her enemies and you call up the RNC and suggest that so many of them should stop acting like they are.