Charlie’s apparently a big fan of crude sexual euphemisms.
(Daily Caller)– Would someone tell New York Democrat Charlie Rangel that describing Tea Partiers as “tea baggers” is so 2009?
On Monday’s “Bulls & Bears” on the Fox Business Network, Rangel fresh off his December censure for ethics violations, said Republican leaders will face trouble from “tea baggers” in the House — though not from Democrats — in attempting to raise the $14-trillion debt ceiling.
“I think if what you say is true, then the Republicans forgot who won the majority,” Rangel said. “They don’t negotiate with us as to who the heck votes for increasing the debt ceiling. They have to provide the leadership in doing it. So maybe they’ll have a problem with the tea baggers who don’t believe in having a debt ceiling at all. But, this will be interesting. So, they have to come to us for support.”
The “tea bagger” label generally has been employed by anti-Tea Party pundits at left-leaning outlets such as MSNBC. However, Rangel made it clear he didn’t think much of the Tea Party movement. He chalked up the 2010 Republican wave to the public’s disillusionment with incumbents.
Then again, he just called Barack Obama a “tea bagger.”
Here are Obama’s thoughts on the debt limit in 2006, when he voted against increasing the ceiling:
The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. . . . Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.