Vice President Joe Biden distilled the difference between Democrats and Republicans, as he understands it, into one phrase, saying that Republicans support “the privileged sector” against Democrats, who support “the private sector.”
“The difference between us and them is we are strongly supportive of the private sector, they’re supportive of the privileged sector,” Biden told House Democrats in Maryland today, while talking about Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and the Republican Party at large. “Wall St unabridged — the super wealthy who are not prepared to contribute,” Biden added, saying he could provide other indices of the “privileged sector” as defended by Republicans.
“I don’t think they’re bad guys,” he allowed, “but they really believe as strongly as we do [in] the direction they want to take the country.”
