Joe Biden: In a way, these budget-cutting Republicans are like rape apologists

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Here is the latest from our Vice-President (and lead negotiator with Republicans on the budget). Click the link and read onward.

Link: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/150799-biden-mentions-rape-in-criticizing-gop

Allahpundit will assist you from the headdesking some of you may be doing (or what I'll be doing):

And so, two years and two months into The One’s presidency, with the new Republican House desperate to get him to slash spending and reform entitlements, somehow even the unfathomably huge deficits he’s running are an intractable problem he’s inherited from the GOP. For a gloss on that, see the new numbers from CBO today estimating that Obama’s budget proposal for the next decade would increase the deficit by $9.5 trillion, a full $2 trillion higher than the White House previously claimed. He isn’t remotely serious about solvency — if he were, his budget would necessarily look more like this — and he also isn’t willing to take political risks even when they’re ideologically germane. Reforming entitlements is both electorally toxic and essentially conservative; raising taxes would, at least, please his base while raising some extra revenue, but of course that’s electorally toxic too. So, no dice. The money line from WaPo’s write-up of CBO’s new numbers: “Much of the negative impact on the nation’s budget outlook would come from the president’s proposals to maintain tax cuts for the middle class that are now due to expire in 2012.” If he and Biden are serious about erasing those tremendous deficits, why not “disinherit” those Republican cuts?

Link: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/03/18/joe-biden-in-a-way-these-budget-cutting-republicans-are-like-rape-apologists/

Dennis Prager has said about how the Left's rhetoric has cheapened certain words, as noted with the still constant Hilter metaphors. Why not cheapen the term of "rape victim," as well (or close enough thereof)? (To that end, I might as well use AP's Subject line for this entry.) If I'm being too sensitive about the subject or that my outrage is misplaced, feel free to enlighten me.

Exit question, via AP: Are public employee unions the “victims” in their battle with Scott Walker and Republicans? I thought the victim was someone else.

Update: Upon re-reading, I misread things or AP's line of logic slightly. So, I re-edited accordingly to play on the "victim" wording, as I should have done. I was wrong.

Update 2: Never mind, as everything was right, the first time. My apologies. No more late night reading/re-editing for me.