Today In Washington: V.P. Biden Attends A Secret Meeting On Transparency
You really can’t make things like this up: “At 1:00 PM, the Vice President will attend a meeting of the Government Accountability and Transparency Board in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. At 2:30 PM, the Vice President will meet with representatives of the National Sheriffs’ Association in the Roosevelt Room. These meetings are closed press.“ [...]
Joe Biden Welcomes Gabrielle Giffords To The “Cracked Head Club”
Some, no doubt, will chalk this up as another Biden-ism: “When I went up, she said, ‘Joe,” Biden recalled of his meeting with Giffords. “I said, ‘Now we’re both members of the Cracked Head Club.’ You know, I had two craniotomies. For real. They literally took the top of my head off. Twice. Now, the [...]
Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell Look For Debt Crisis Resolution
The political odd couple pairings that we’ve seen throughout the debt negotiations continue, with the Vice-President and Senate Minority Leader now apparently working together behind the scenes: Taking square aim at the White House, Republicans prepared to bring to a House vote Thursday a two-step $2.5 trillion debt ceiling bill that will avert default next [...]
Biden 2016?
Vice-President Biden wants Democrats to remember that he will still be around after Barack Obama is done with his second term: Vice President Joe Biden surprised a gathering of donors in Cincinnati last week when he floated the prospect of his succeeding President Barack Obama in the White House. Biden, who started in the Senate [...]
President’s Budget Speech Puts Joe Biden To Sleep?
Unfortunately, for the Vice-President, ABC News has a camera on him during the President’s budget speech: So was Biden nodding off, or was he engaged in deep mediation about fiscal policy? You decide But, apparently, the Vice-President didn’t think that this speech was a Big Effing Deal. H/T: Taegan Goddard
Reporter: I Wasn’t “Trapped In A Closet” By VP Biden’s Staff
Scott Powers, the Florida Sun-Sentinel reporter who’s reported confinement in what was described as a closet during a fundraising event attended by Vice-President Biden, seems to be a bit surprised that he ended up at the center of a cause celebre: I was kidnapped. That was news to me. My paper and I conspired to [...]
Candidate Obama vs. President Obama On The Use Of Military Force
Four years ago, the Junior Senator from Illinois had this to say about the use of military force: 2. In what circumstances, if any, would the president have constitutional authority to bomb Iran without seeking a use-of-force authorization from Congress? (Specifically, what about the strategic bombing of suspected nuclear sites — a situation that does [...]
Delaware Town Rejects Naming School After Joe Biden
Even in his own home state, a Vice-President can’t get no respect: President Obama already has seven schools named after him, but his vice president still has some catching up to do. Delaware voters may have sent Joe Biden to the Senate six times, but it seems they are not quite ready to name a [...]
Biden: Mubarak Not A Dictator, But He Needs to Listen To His People
As the protests rage in Egypt, the United States is walking a tightrope: In an interview with the Newshour’s Jim Lehrer today, Vice President Biden said he would not refer to Egyptian President Mubarak as a dictator and instead called him an “ally” on a number of key foreign policy issues. When asked if it [...]
Joe Biden: Gay Marriage Consensus Is “Inevitable”
Vice-President Biden said today that a national consensus accepting same-sex marriage is coming: WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that the country is evolving on the issue of gay marriage and he thinks it’s inevitable there will be national consensus. He said on ABC’s “Good Morning America” the same thing is happening with [...]
Joe Biden: U.S. Will Be Out Of Afghanistan By 2014
Vice-President Biden made a bold promise on Meet The Press this morning: Despite uneven progress in Afghanistan, Vice President Joe Biden said next summer’s planned withdrawal would be more than a token reduction and that the U.S. would be out of the country by 2014 “come hell or high water.” Biden’s prediction appeared to go [...]
Joe Biden Reacts To Sarah Palin’s Assertion That She Could Beat Obama
A few days ago, Sarah Palin told Barbara Walters that she believed she could beat Barack Obama in 2012, a not surprising assertion from someone who’s thinking of running for President as my co-blogger Steven Taylor noted. Anyway, yesterday, Joe Biden was on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and, well, here’s his reaction: Biden was a little [...]
Biden: Tea Parties Aren’t Racist
In a sign that the Obama Administration is unwilling to associate it self with the “Tea Party = Racism” discussion that the NAACP started last week, Vice-President Biden said this morning that he did not believe it was true: “Do you think elements of the Tea Party are racist?” This Week anchor Jake Tapper asked [...]
Hillary Clinton For Vice-President ?
Sally Quinn thinks Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton should switch jobs: Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden should switch jobs. Really. It makes sense for the Democrats, actually. Clinton has done an incredible job as secretary of state. First of all, she has worked harder than anyone should ever be expected to. She has managed to [...]
Biden ‘Big Fat Deal’ Comment No Big Deal
The latest Fox News survey [PDF] asked whether Vice President Joe Biden’s whispered comment that the health care bill was a “big expletive deal” was offensive. Not surprisingly, a majority thought not. Also not shocking: A majority of Republicans though it was. Greg Sargent is amused, titling his post “Fox News Polls Biden’s ‘F-Bomb,” Gets [...]
Biden: Republican House Takeback ‘End of the Road’
Vice President Joe Biden told a partisan crowd that, if the Republicans win the House back in 2010, it would be “the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do.” Karen Travers for ABC: Biden said Republicans are pinning their political strategy on flipping these seats. “If they take them [...]
The Face That Launched A Thousand Trial Balloons
As often as he brings down ridicule upon himself, one wonders at times why Obama and his handlers keep letting “Talking Joe” Biden speak in public. James Lileks writes in the New York Post that “Biden’s ‘gaffes’ are anything but — they’re simply what the administration is really thinking. Truer words have never been babbled.” [...]











