CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Journalists here are honing in on Vice President Joe Biden’s criticism of the GOP for not supporting any of the deficit-reduction proposals over the past year, noting that President Barack Obama did not embrace a report place outside by the co-chairs of the Simpson-Bowles panel. ABC’s Jake Tapper, for instance, called the following, from Biden, an “incredible border.” “In Tampa, they talked with fantastic urgency about the nation’s debt. And the demand to act, to act immediately. However not once, not one single age, did they tell you that they rejected every plot place forward by us — by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission they referenced, or by other respected outside collection — to reduce the national debt. They were not for any of them. Why? Since they’re not prepared to do anything about the debt if it contained much one dollar, not exaggerating, much one dollar — one cent — in fresh taxes for millionaires. Folks, that’s not courage. And that’s not honest,” Biden said.Glance at More…
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