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 put out by the co-chairs of the Simpson-Bowles panel.
ABC's Jake Tapper, for instance, called the following, from Biden, an "incredible line."
"In Tampa, they talked with great urgency about the nation's debt. And the need to act, to act now. But not once, not one single time, did they tell you that they rejected every plan put forward by us -- by the bipartisan Simpson-Bowles Commission they referenced, or by other respected outside group -- to reduce the national debt. They were not for any of them. Why? Because they're not prepared to do anything about the debt if it contained even one dollar, not exaggerating, even one dollar -- one cent -- in new taxes for millionaires. Folks, that's not courage. And that's not fair," Biden said.
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