Journalist Rails Against Tea Party: "They've Strapped Explosives to the Capitol!"

Rich Noyes | July 29, 2011
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On the July 29 edition of Inside Washington, Bloomberg's Margaret Carlson slammed the Tea Party for demanding spending cuts before raising the debt ceiling: "There’s a nihilist caucus which is, ‘Listen, we want to burn the place down.’ I mean, they’re not, they’ve strapped explosives to the Capitol and they think they are immune from it. The Tea Party caucus wants this crisis, and do we want to do this again six months from now?"