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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBiden: "Neanderthal crowd" obstructed VAWA renewal.
Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday slammed the Republicans who slowed the passage of the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act as "this sort of Neanderthal crowd" in the House as he touted what he considers to be his unique understanding of how Congress works.
"I'm going to say something outrageous," Biden said at the Naval Observatory at an event marking the 19th anniversary of the bill. "I think I understand the Senate better than any man or woman who's ever served in there, and I think I understand the House ... I was surprised this last time ... the idea we still had to fight? We had to fight to reauthorize?"
"Did you ever think we'd be fighting over, you know, 17, 18 years later to reauthorize this?" he asked the crowd, which included people who'd worked on getting the original bill passed in 1994. "Well, you know what? The thing they didn't like, they said we like it the way it is," he said, without the protections for Native Americans living on tribal lands and LGBT people that the supporters pushed to include in the bill.
"I'm going to say something outrageous," Biden said at the Naval Observatory at an event marking the 19th anniversary of the bill. "I think I understand the Senate better than any man or woman who's ever served in there, and I think I understand the House ... I was surprised this last time ... the idea we still had to fight? We had to fight to reauthorize?"
"Did you ever think we'd be fighting over, you know, 17, 18 years later to reauthorize this?" he asked the crowd, which included people who'd worked on getting the original bill passed in 1994. "Well, you know what? The thing they didn't like, they said we like it the way it is," he said, without the protections for Native Americans living on tribal lands and LGBT people that the supporters pushed to include in the bill.
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/09/biden-neanderthal-crowd-slowed-vawa-renewal-172549.html
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Biden: "Neanderthal crowd" obstructed VAWA renewal. (Original Post)
geek tragedy
Sep 2013
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William769
(55,147 posts)1. Kick & recommended.
eissa
(4,238 posts)2. Love Biden. That is all.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)3. Biden shouldn't speak so poorly of neaderthals!
Berlum
(7,044 posts)4. The Neanderthals (R) go marching on
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)5. Who thought we would have to fight to keep
Roe v Wade in place?
JustAnotherGen
(31,823 posts)6. Another kick and rec
Sometimes a little name calling is in order. Especially when it's done in the jovial and jolly way that only Joe Biden can do it - while spitting venom out of the other side of his mouth. . Love Biden!
sheshe2
(83,771 posts)7. Thank you Joe Biden!
We love it that you stood up for us.
"Nothing, nothing, nothing I've ever been engaged in matters to me more than what you've made real," he told the crowd.
your link~
Thank you geek. I Joe Biden!