Debt deal: Dems getting short end of stick

Roll Call reports that Democrats in Congress feel they got the short end of the stick in the debt deal.

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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).

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.

Of course at that meeting, Biden said that the Tea Party "acted like terrorists" during the debt negotiations. Technorati tags: politics current affairs news conservative freedom tea party Biden