Poor Joe. Everybody keeps deriding the hapless old guy for a few lapses in memory. But come on — if you had a case of verbal diarrhea that began to rival the one Biden seems to be afflicted with, could you even begin to remember all the things you said?
I mean, really. No one has a memory like that.
Except, well, the press. Yeeeah. The press tends to keep track of all those embarrassing little contradictory statements. ‘Cause, you know, they record them.
That little habit might explain why Peter Roff of U.S. News & World Report was so quick to slam a statement Biden made at a Florida fundraiser on Sunday. Ol’ Joe was yapping about the Republicans’ disgraceful use of the filibuster. And guess what? Said yapping stands in direct opposition to a few other things Biden said once (or twice) long, long ago (or in 2005).
Let’s take a look, shall we? Just for old time’s sake?
This is how Politico quoted Biden on Sunday:
As long as I have served, I’ve never seen, as my uncle once said, the Constitution stood on its head as they’ve done. This is the first time every single solitary decision has required 60 senators … No democracy has survived needing a supermajority.
And this would be Biden on the Senate floor in May 2005:
At its core, the filibuster is not about stopping a nominee or a bill; it’s about compromise and moderation. The nuclear option extinguishes the power of independents and moderates in the Senate. That’s it, they’re done. Moderates are important if you need to get to 60 votes to satisfy cloture; they are much less so if you only need 50 votes. Let’s set the historical record straight. Never has the Senate provided for a certainty that 51 votes could put someone on the bench or pass legislation.
And again, concering Judge Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination:
If he really believes that reapportionment is a questionable decision … then clearly, clearly, you’ll find a lot of people, including me, willing to do whatever they can to keep him off the court….That would include a filibuster, if need be.
Oh, and I am sure the list goes on:
During his years in the Senate, Biden could be counted on to routinely join Democratic efforts to support filibusters of Republican programs–from the second President Bush’s energy bill to the first President Bush’s effort to cut the tax on capital gains in order to stimulate the U.S. economy and blunt the impact of the early-’90s recession. Now that he is vice president, and the entire Obama agenda is imperiled, he has changed his mind in an apparent deathbed conversion. It won’t last.
No, I’d bet not. But you know what does last? Audiotape. Just ask Nixon.
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How dare you guys question him! Can’t you see he has a flag pin on his lapel!? Of all the nerve…
(Only three years left…How’d things go in Massachusetts guys?)
Is lapel spelled right? I actually typed label the first time. Whenever I see the word label I actually think it says labia. True story.
Funny story Pasta. I can never look at the word label without snickering now. Thanks.
This post reminds me of a joke… “I was told if I voted for McCain I would get an idiot for a vice president. They were right.”
Jenn that is really funny. I can’t beieve that people acutally think that Biden is a better canidate than Palin.
My son suggested that everyone should have to serve in a political position that way no one would become a professional politician. I said, there are a lot of knee-jerk, reactionary, uninformed people out there. He laughed and said that is why we need to get rid of professional politicians.
It was sad when people were looking at Palin as inexperienced and comparing her to Obama, when in fact she was running for Vice President and not President. People seemed to forget that. And only 3 years left. If Obama left then we would have Biden. Oh lord, I just threw up in my mouth with that thought.
Joe Biden TOTALLY cancels out Dan Quayle. And then some.
“No democracy has survived needing a supermajority”???!! What planet is this moron living on? It’s like he’s never heard of the USA before. Last I checked, we’ve survived some 230-odd years needing a supermajority. Plus, I’m pretty sure we don’t live in a democracy. We live in a republic, planned by the founding fathers to not be a “50 percent + 1 vote” so-called democracy. God forbid Biden would understand that. I’m sure he’s never read anything like the Federalist papers to understand that. He’s just used government to make himself wealthy and above all of the little people. What a piece of crap.
God forbid anything happen to Obama. Biden is the best insurance policy he could have; it’s terrifying to think Biden is one heartbeat away from having an actual job. Who was it who said that the Vice Presidency was worth “a warm pitcher of spit”? Adjust that for inflation.
John Edwards, you ARE the father.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122805210
Off topic but in regards to Fortunate Son’s link …. why is he admitting this now? Could it be because the supposed baby daddy, Andrew Young, has a book coming out later this year? What a fricking waste of space is John Edwards.
John Edwards and Obama is tied for biggest deceiver. Way over PETA. Obama can hurt me as well as my loved ones. PETA are just blowhards.
Pastafarian…does your mind wander on the word “public” as well? How about “uvula”?
And Pasta, dare we ask about the Penal code?
Typical politician that one, to many of them seem to think that all the rules should benefit them and no one else. I wonder if they have any idea of what actual fairness is.
Props to Obama though for picking a VP. He’s completely insulated himself from the threat of assassination, no one on the planet is crazy enough to want Biden in the driver’s seat.
Nienna, a lot of people theorize that is exactly why he chose Biden. I’m not positive of that myself, but I’ve considered the possibility that might be at least partially true. The Obama love fest was so strong during his campaign he could have chosen a baked potato as his running mate.
I’d prefer the baked potato. At least it has substance.
I’m not sure which is scarier: Biden as second in line or Pelosi as third in line.
For $1000 per couple the Democrats provided the 200 or so guests with exactly one toilet at that event. And you couldn’t go out and use it while Biden was in the tent.
Mmmmmm. Baked potatoes also make better public speakers than Joe Biden. And they smell nicer, too.
Beige: better vice presidents to
Well hey, if Biden’s uncle said so, then that’s enough for me!
I’d suggest they go back to the old yammer on the floor until you drop dead manner of filibuster, but the Dems still have Biden who could expound all the live-long day.
And somebody, please tell me Joe’s not about to greet Janet Napalitano in that photo…
And WHERE IN THE HELL have YOU been, Minnow?
One of Obama’s talking points during the campaign was to get rid of “Washington insiders” and not be “politics as usual”.
Then he selected Biden, who had been in politics for HOW LONG??
BAKED POTATO FOR VP!
In 1975 the Senate changed the rules. Before then ( for the FIRST 199 years, Joe) 67 votes were required for cloture. The democrats lowered it. What’s that saying about democracy & mob rule?
If Biden was going to greet Janet in the picture above, that is the closest she has even gotten to being felt up. Just sayin.