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In the end, it seems the only people in Washington being forced to eat their debt limit peas will be Democrats, who found themselves swallowing a bitter political deal forced on them by the White House and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).Of course at that meeting, Biden said that the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" during the debt negotiations. Technorati tags:
When President Barack Obama issued his famous "peas" admonishment, he didn't have just his fellow Democrats in mind. But in the end, it was clearly Democrats — and not Republicans — who were feeling the pain from his agreement.
Hoping to soothe hurt feelings Monday, Obama dispatched Vice President Joseph Biden to Capitol Hill to coax angry liberals — particularly in the House — to vote for the bill.
Although it was widely expected enough Democrats would back the bill in both chambers, Biden had little success in convincing them of the virtue of compromise.
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