Jerrold Nadler: Republicans a 'Bunch of Gangsters'

Earlier this week the Republicans were hostage takers. Now they're a bunch of gangsters, according to bloated New York Congressthing Jerrold Nadler. Imagine what they'll be called when they're actually in the majority.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) called Republicans "a bunch of gangsters" who blackmailed Democrats to ensure that the nation's wealthiest retain their tax cuts.

Nadler, appearing Sunday morning on CBS' "Face the Nation," characterized the Republican stance on the bipartisan compromise on extending the Bush-era tax cuts of "nice middle class tax cut you have there, pity if something would happen to it unless you give millionaires and billionaries" a tax cut. "Unless you give the wealthier a tax cut we're not permitting the middle class to get it."

Nadler expressed concern that Republicans will continue pressing Congress and President Obama for a permanent extension of those tax cuts and if we "succumb to blackmail" now why should there be any expectation that they will have the "political gumption in 2012 to not submit again."

It's overheated rhetoric like this that puts lives in danger.

This jerk Nadler is the guy who back during the 2000 recount said he detected a whiff of fascism. I think he was just smelling the bacon grease dripping from his lips.

I distinctly recall after the election the Democrats were all calling for "compromise" and wanted to work together. Calling people gangsters and accusing them of blackmail sure is a curious way of going about it.