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    "title": "All That \"New Civility\" Stuff Was Just Posturing",
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    "created": "2011-08-01 22:30:39 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having \u00e2\u0080\u009cacted like terrorists\u00e2\u0080\u009d in the fight over raising the nation\u00e2\u0080\u0099s debt limit.</p>\n<p>Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.</p>\n<p>\u00e2\u0080\u009cWe have negotiated with terrorists,\u00e2\u0080\u009d an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. \u00e2\u0080\u009cThis small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.\u00e2\u0080\u009d</p>\n<p>Biden, driven by his Democratic allies\u00e2\u0080\u0099 misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: \u00e2\u0080\u009cThey have acted like terrorists,\u00e2\u0080\u009d according to several sources in the room.</p>\n<p>Biden\u00e2\u0080\u0099s office declined to comment about what the vice president said inside the closed-door session.</p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Biden told Senate Democrats that Republican leaders have \u00e2\u0080\u009cguns to their heads\u00e2\u0080\u009d in trying to negotiate deals.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60421.html\">Biden: Tea partiers like 'terrorists' - Jonathan Allen and John Bresnahan - POLITICO.com</a></em>.</p>\n"
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