Rep. Steve Cohen: Tea Partiers Are ‘Domestic Enemies’

Dem Rep. Steve Cohen on MSNBC: Tea Partiers ‘Are the Domestic Enemies’ (Mediaite)

Many Democrats are clearly still angry with how the tea partiers in Congress have been acting over the past few weeks, and on MSNBC’s Up Saturday morning, Congressman Steve Cohen told Steve Kornacki that these tea partiers are really nothing more than “domestic enemies” of the United States.

Kornacki asked Cohen if he thought “things would play out differently” the next time Congress has to take up government funding and raising the debt ceiling. Cohen said, “If a child puts their finger on a burner, they’re not likely to go to that burner again.” However, he expressed his concern that some Republicans may not have learned their lesson, saying a lot of them got “energy” out of the shutdown fight.