UPDATED: Joe Biden: 'There Isn't A Republican Party'
Source: TPM
CATHERINE THOMPSON – FEBRUARY 14, 2014, 11:13 AM EST
Vice President Joe Biden seized on disorganization in the GOP to rally House Democrats on Friday at a policy conference in Maryland. "There isn’t a Republican Party. I wish there were, I wish there was a Republican Party," Biden said. "I wish there was one person we could sit across the table from, make a deal, make a compromise and know when you got up from that table it was done."
"All you had to do was look at the response to the State of the Union, what were there, three or four?" he added. "I'm not being facetious."
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA) gave the official GOP response to President Barack Obama's address last month, but Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) all gave individual responses that bore few similarities to the vision laid out Rogers' address.
Biden was also optimistic about Democrats' prospects in midterm elections, assuring the House Democratic caucus that middle class voters prefer their party over the GOP on almost every major issue.
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Biden: Middle Class Voters Prefer Us Democrats Over The GOP
CATHERINE THOMPSON – FEBRUARY 14, 2014, 10:58 AM EST
Vice President Joe Biden on Friday pumped up House Democrats by assuring them that voters are on their side this midterm election year. "I can't think of a time when the issues that most affect the American people, most affect the middle class -- overwhelmingly, overwhelmingly they support us," Biden said at a House Democratic caucus retreat.
"The American people agree with us 55 percent on marriage equality. Overwhelmingly they agree with us on pay equity," he said. "And even 55 percent is all the difficulties you're facing now with the ACA, 55 percent of the American people don't want to see it repealed."
The remarks echoed an interview Biden gave to CNN last week, in which he said that he's optimistic about Democrat's chances in this year's midterm elections.
"One thing they say on every major issue: the public agrees between 51 and 70 percent with the position taken by the President of the United States and the Democratic Party," he told CNN. "You give me a chance to have all the issues my way, or have popularity at the moment -- I'll take the issues. That's what's going to win."
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...that it now accommodates Moderate Republicans like Arlen Specter & Charlie Crist with ease!
They don't have to change any of their (formerly) Republican Values (like Trickle Down Tax Breaks, CoC Corporate friendly policy, Privatization of The Commons) or anything.... beyond the letter after their name.
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...and people wonder HOW the Democratic Party became so conservative. 
[font color=firebrick][center]"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want a party that will STAND UP for Working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone [/font][/center] [center]
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Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]
