But a guy named after Mohammed thinks it's OK, funnily enough!
"Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) on Friday compared the tax-cut fight with Republicans to negotiating with terrorists, while Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri suggested Americans might need to “take up pitchforks" if Congress renews tax breaks for the wealthy.
“Do you allow yourself to be held hostage and get something done for the sake of getting something done, when in fact it might be perverse in its ultimate results?” Menendez said, when asked whether he and other Democrats would compromise with Republicans. “It’s almost like the question of do you negotiate with terrorists.”
A Menendez aide said the senator was talking about the Republicans' negotiating strategy and was not comparing Republicans to terrorists.
"This shouldn’t be taken out of context from the full question and answer," Menendez spokesman Afshin Mohamadi wrote in an e-mail.
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Is Mr. Menendez, a true congressional Leftist, upset because he believes the Republicans may start doing what the Demoncrats have been doing for the last four years? Let's hope his fears are justified.
Sen. Claire McCaskill is a pig.
Aren't they all.
I lean pretty far to the right. But I also try to see issues objectively. Of course there are numerous instances where so-called "hate speech" is deemed "fine" if it comes from the Left. But in this case, I have to side with Menendez. If the quote is accurate, he was simply using an analogy to make a point about the wisdom of a course of action. He didn't call anybody anything. Getting our feathers in an uproar over this would be akin to somebody from the GOP saying, about the Left, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks" and then the Left complaining that he called all them dogs! We would all tell them to "Learn to listen better next time." We on the Right constantly condemn the Left for spinning about things we actually didn't say. Let's not do it ourselves. Just makes us look, well, like them.
*Er... "called them all..." even.
Plover, what's up with the run-on sentence?
Coz Plover was drunk as usual!
DONT GO RUFFLING MY FEATHERS PLEASE
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