Vice President
Joseph Biden criticized Mitt Romney and the Republican Party on Monday at a
fundraiser for Sen. Maria Cantwell in Seattle, calling the presidential hopeful
"George Bush on steroids" and lampooning the GOP's foreign policy as "right out
of the Cold War."
Biden, who spoke
to a crowd of about 1,000 downtown at the Westin Seattle Hotel, praised
Cantwell, D-Wash., who is heavily favored to win re-election in November, and
emphasized her humble roots.
"This is a woman
who, like me, was the first in her family to go to college," he said.
Romney, Biden
continued, "dug into his trust fund to go to college," drawing
laughs.
Biden's remarks
followed a speech by President Barack Obama at the White House Monday afternoon
in which he implored Congress to immediately extend the Bush tax cuts for those
making less than $250,000 a year. Biden kept up the theme in Seattle,
criticizing Romney's support for U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan's budget plan and the GOP's
call to extend the Bush tax cuts for wealthy Americans,
too.
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Republicans, for their part, didn't wait for Biden's plane to land to lash into
him.
"While never
knowing what gem might come out of Biden's mouth makes him a lot of fun, he
certainly isn't someone who is going to help Washington with job growth and the
economy," Kirby Wilbur, the Washington State Republican Party chairman, said in
a statement. mcclatchydc.com
Vice President
Joe Biden appeared at a Monday fundraiser in Seattle, where he borrowed a little
material from former President Bill Clinton to slam GOP presidential nominee
Mitt Romney. Huffington Post According to a
pool report, Biden compared Romney's economic policies to "George Bush on
steroids," before acknowledging he had picked up the jab from Clinton.
wn.com Biden also
reportedly took aim at renewed GOP efforts to enact voter ID laws in a number of
states, such as Pennsylvania and Ohio. Huffington Post The vice
president joked, "Republicans have changed the law so you get arrested if you do
vote" and said their moves were an effort "to essentially try to intimidate
people, tak[e] people off the rolls." Huffington Post
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