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Sen. Harkin: "Cult Fringe" (TEA Party) Holding Up Debt Ceiling Increase
Real Clear Politics ^ | July 20, 2011 | Unknown

Posted on 07/20/2011 1:44:37 PM PDT by CharlyFord

Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) calls Republicans "dead-beat debtors" among other things during a Democratic press conference on Wednesday morning.

"The debate and fight is not between Democrats and Republicans. It's between some Republicans and their sort of cult fringe as I refer to them out there," Harkin said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrat; iowa; teaparty; tomharkin
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He goes on to blame the spending problem on the Republicans under Bush. This is what we get when Republicans try to be 'compassionate' and spend like drunken sailors (Dimocrats). The 'compassionate' Bush years will haunt the Republican Party for a long time.

Yea! I know. O'boy has spent a lot more but the Republicans under bush spent way too much.

1 posted on 07/20/2011 1:44:45 PM PDT by CharlyFord
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Somebody needs to change Tommy’s diaper.


2 posted on 07/20/2011 1:46:46 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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What do you expect from a RAT who, like John Effing Kerry lied about his military service.


3 posted on 07/20/2011 1:49:39 PM PDT by vette6387 (Enough Already!)
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The debate is between chronic spenders who want their allowance raised so they can continue to exceed it, versus responsible people who want to cover what is owed, but not allow these children like Barack Hussein Obama, to spend more than they are given.

Giving more tax dollars to a Democrat makes as much sense as giving cocaine to a drug addict.


4 posted on 07/20/2011 1:49:56 PM PDT by ZULU (Lindsey Graham is a nanometrical pustule of pusillanimous putrescence)
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Sen. Tom Harkin.. a major DICK who is, quoting Rep allen West on another liberal azzhole “”vile, despicable and cowardly””.


5 posted on 07/20/2011 1:50:17 PM PDT by maddog55 (OBAMA: Why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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6 posted on 07/20/2011 1:51:01 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Gov. Sarah Palin. What'll you do?)
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Harkin and the leftists in Iowa City are ‘Cult Fringe’. It is time to isolate them...banned for life from all public office. Harkin is a POS.


7 posted on 07/20/2011 1:51:31 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
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Harkin is a Communist agent.


8 posted on 07/20/2011 1:52:07 PM PDT by screaminsunshine (Socialism...Easier said than done.)
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he did spend way too much.

but odufus has spent twice as much in 3 yrs.

actually, i don’t know the exact numbers and would like them. I just recall seeing a graph illustrating such.


9 posted on 07/20/2011 1:52:10 PM PDT by Principled
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We didn't coin the acronym Idiots Out Wandering Around out of thin air.
10 posted on 07/20/2011 1:53:34 PM PDT by GunningForTheBuddha (Bachman/West :: West/Bachman : whatever order I'd vote for them)
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Oh...I didn’t know Congress was going to PAY the trillions of dollars of debt they’ve racked up. I thought they want to raise the credit limit so they can borrow still more that children still unborn will be expected to pay off. Silly me.

Aren’t you Iowans embarrassed?


11 posted on 07/20/2011 1:54:01 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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Tom Harkin, an old partisan hack from way back, is attempting to (a) marginalize the TEA party conservatives that are hold fast on the debt ceiling bill's spending requirements and, (b) deflecting the fact that Obama came into the negotiations with a bloated budget, 14 trillion in debt - and he seeks to expand that! Republicans attempting to put the brakes on Obama's spending insanity are reflexively demonized by leftist hacks such as Tom Harkin. They can't really defend the Obama budget or his recalcitrance on actually shrinking the federal debt so they attack the people trying to rein him in. Typical Democrat diversion and obfuscation. I hope the public doesn't fall for it, yet again, but I'm not as optimistic as I would like to be.
12 posted on 07/20/2011 1:55:36 PM PDT by Jim Scott ( "Game On!" - Sarah Palin)
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“Cult Fringe”

Whose cult?

James Madison’s or Karl Marx’s?

You can call me a member of Madison’s cult fringe,

That must mean that Tommy must be a member of Karl Marx’s cult fringe.


13 posted on 07/20/2011 1:56:48 PM PDT by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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I once asked a family from Iowa how phony-Vietnam-hero Harkin kept getting reelected. Their reply told me that Iowa, like Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania & others, is a largely rural state ruled by a central urban elite in the state capital.

This of course was before I had to explain to out of staters how a conservative Southern state like South Carolina could elect and then reelect our own Little Lord Flimsey Graham aka Tinkerbelle.


14 posted on 07/20/2011 2:03:23 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Deport Muslims. Nuke Mecca. Death to Islam. Freedom for mankind.")
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Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) calls Republicans "dead-beat debtors" among other things during a Democratic press conference on Wednesday morning.

What a curious statement! The Democrats OWN the phrase "dead-beat debtors" because they do not need a budget to spend, spend, spend. They just borrow and print money and raise taxes. What do you need a budget for with that policy?

Calling politicians who believe in fiscal responsibility "dead-beats" is curious indeed. Tom truly has a disordered mind. Oh, my!

15 posted on 07/20/2011 2:06:42 PM PDT by olezip
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Everyone who disagrees with a liberal/communist is “cult fringe” to these people. If just one republican would call one of these little whimps out I’d do everything I could to help them get re-elected. Just one. Slap one of the little cry baby screamers. I was hoping someone would slap Weiner but he slapped himself with his own weiner.


16 posted on 07/20/2011 2:06:59 PM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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Sounds about right. To Harkin, the American people are the cult fringe!


17 posted on 07/20/2011 2:15:40 PM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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I believe that Cult Fringe was responsible for a few seats in Congress changing parties last election Senator.


18 posted on 07/20/2011 2:21:23 PM PDT by Delphster
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Out of reverence for the past, Senator Harkin should always be referred to as “Senator Tom ‘Dung Heap’ Harkin.”


19 posted on 07/20/2011 2:24:32 PM PDT by Grut
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Tom Harkin: Ecce Homo


20 posted on 07/20/2011 2:34:48 PM PDT by tumblindice ( Once his pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend.)
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