Biden Reportedly Calls Tea Partiers ‘Crazy’

Vice President Joe Biden talks with officials at Norfolk International Terminals in Norfolk, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. Biden visited the area to talk about a new federal transportation grant. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Vice President Joe Biden called the tea party “crazy” and said its adherents have “no judgment” during a closed-door meeting Tuesday, CNN reported.

A source who attended Biden’s meeting with black clergy in South Carolina provided CNN with a detailed readout of the vice president’s candid comments.

“This is not your father’s Republican Party,” Biden told the audience of more than 100 ministers, according to CNN’s source in the room. “This is a different breed of cat, man. I am not making a moral judgment, but I will tell you that they have no judgment.”

The vice president further predicted that chaos would reign if if Republicans were to control both houses of Congress after the midterm elections.

“If they win again, we are going to get no consensus on anything for the next two, four, six years,” Biden reportedly said. “But if we beat some of these folks, it’s going to give some spine to the Republicans who know better.”

Biden’s office declined to comment to CNN on the remarks.

The vice president has had choice words for the far right before. Biden reportedly said that tea party Republicans “acted like terrorists” in the 2011 debt ceiling debate.

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  1. He’s being a little too nice. The Tea Party is an insane and borderline delusional bunch of traitorous idiots whose policies are dictated by spite-filled rage, racism and homophobia all wrapped up in faux patriotism and a perverted version of Christianity. “Crazy” is the least offensive way to describe them.

  2. Avatar for sjk sjk says:

    Joe’s been pretty right lately…Its a big fucking deal…

  3. Breaking News: Vice President states the obvious.

  4. Avatar for tani tani says:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zoo3GEfhPwo
    Thank you, VP Biden for telling the truth. The great cover-up of America media & who shown themselves as the enablers for big money. (msnbc, abc, cbs, cnn, nbc)…

    GOTV 2014

  5. A source who attended Biden’s meeting with black clergy in South Carolina provided CNN with a detailed readout of the vice president’s candid comments.

    OK. So is this the entire detailed quote?

    “This is not your father’s Republican Party,” Biden told the audience of more than 100 ministers, according to CNN’s source in the room. “This is a different breed of cat, man. I am not making a moral judgment, but I will tell you that they have no judgment.”

    I see the judgment part, but where is the “crazy”?

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