Three days, two speeches, one important difference.<\/p>\n
When Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, he said that opponents of the president\u2019s jobs bill were okay that, as a result of blocking the bill, \u201cmurder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise, all crimes will continue to rise.\u201d<\/a> Nary a peep was heard from the Occupy Philadelphia crowd.<\/p>\n By contrast, just the mere mention that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) would speak at Penn today brought on threats from Occupy Philadelphia<\/a> to disrupt his speech.\u00a0 Cantor rightly canceled his appearance<\/a> at the last minute in order to avoid the kind of heckling for which liberal activists are notorious.<\/p>\n Biden argued that federal spending on state union members would somehow reduce murders and rapes.\u00a0 Cantor was expected to speak on how to ease income inequalities.\u00a0 If anyone needed more proof who these hooligans support and why, here it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Three days, two speeches, one important difference. When Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday, he said that opponents of the president\u2019s jobs bill were okay that, as a result of blocking the bill, \u201cmurder will continue to rise, rape will continue to rise, all crimes will continue to rise.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2064,101,3146,1085],"class_list":["post-11751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-eric-cantor","tag-joe-biden","tag-occupy","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11754,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11751\/revisions\/11754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}