Bloodthirsty Liberal

I’m so glad we don’t have an idiot like Sarah Palin as our Vice President, and instead are represented by this intellectual Saturn rocket:

Biden predicted that “Avatar” would won win “Best Picture,” although he had a little trouble remembering the film’s title.

BIDEN: And I think one of the odds-on favorites, Jill didn’t do with me, is this new program that I looked at and I wish I was seeing it in 3-D and you sit there and you watch this science fiction thing unfold in front of you.

MS. MITCHELL: “Avatar?”

BIDEN: “Avatar.” The magic of it is kind of overwhelming.

Evidently so much so, he couldn’t recall the title of “this new program”, the “science fiction thing”. Who had to break it to him that it was science fiction?

Sarah Palin can’t recall the magazines she reads (a bad moment I grant), and Katie Couric tears her a new one. Biden can barely coherently describe a movie he’s just seen—check that, not coherently at all—and Andrea Mitchell (I’m so old, I remember her as a brunette) feeds him the answer. Effing media whores. (Oops! Did that slip out? This is the only blog that needs a ten second delay.)

And speaking of Katie Couric:

The CBS anchor, now 53, is facing a huge pay cut in her unprecedented $15 million-a-year salary.

More importantly, her bosses at CBS have not yet said whether they want to keep her — at any price.

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The network’s “Evening News” was in third place when she came over from the “Today” show in 2006 — and it has not budged.

CBS News reportedly laid off 150 people on Monday — including, for the first time, staffers at “60 Minutes.” (A spokesman for the network said the number of layoffs was “a fraction” of that but declined to say how many.)

No matter, the idea of paying Couric eight figures to anchor a news show that is in last place does not sit well in the upper echelons of CBS News.

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Couric herself tells Harper’s Bazaar in an upcoming issue that she sometimes dreams that she’s still in school and “I’m forced to take an exam about things I know nothing about.”

In the words of Bard of Hibbing, Minnesota, “How does it fe-e-e-l?” Bitch. (Sorry, bleep that out, would you?)

We all know that you can’t win a presidential election when the VP candidate won’t run the campaign’s playbook, but rather improvises, speaks off-the-cuff, goes rogue, if you will.

So how did they win?

While the press has focused tirelessly on reported tension between the McCain and Palin camps in the 2008 presidential campaign, a more significant story in a new book may be the campaign rift between Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

According to journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann’s new campaign exposé “Game Change,” the tension was so great that aides kept Mr. Biden off internal conference calls and sometimes even refused to tell him calls were taking place. The authors report that Mr. Obama’s aides would hold a separate call in order to “keep a tight rein on him.”

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When a series of Biden gaffes culminated in his assertion that an inexperienced President Obama would, “mark my words,” be tested by an international crisis, Mr. Obama grumbled to campaign staffers: “How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?” A few days later, after Mr. Obama lambasted his running mate personally, Mr. Biden showed no remorse, reportedly telling his staff that his remark didn’t qualify as a gaffe. He also added a potshot at Mr. Obama, saying, “I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t say anything about bitter people who cling to their guns and religion.”

Oh! Good line, Joe! I guess Obama is right that nobody messes with you.

Mr. Biden was also consistently disgruntled with Mr. Obama’s campaign strategy, apparently even more so than Sarah Palin was by John McCain’s. Before a “Meet the Press” appearance in August, Mr. Biden told Mr. Obama’s aides: “Well, it’s your campaign. I’ll say what you want me to say. But after Election Day, all bets are off.” Evidently, Mr. Biden went rogue long before Ms. Palin did.

Well, it’s hard to fall in line behind someone whose sole qualification is cleanliness and articulateness. Which might explain this:

HALPERIN: You know, when they picked Biden they knew there were some problems. They knew he talked a lot. We talked to people who work with Obama in the Senate as we did for the book. They say there was no single United States senator who was more condescending to Obama than Joe Biden.

And in fact as Obama was going through his choices of he picked for running mate.

HANNITY: He said, “I can’t believe” —

HALPERIN: “I can’t believe I’m picking Joe Biden.” He picks him, right away Biden starts saying stuff. It started with this comment about, I’m more qualified. It culminates a few weeks later after he said a lot other silly things where he says the thing about how — if Obama gets elected this young president will be tested.

Obama is furious. On a conference call, “When is Joe Biden going to stop saying such dumb things?” His aides said he was angrier than Biden that he was at any point at Hillary Clinton during the nomination.

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HEILEMANN: And I’ll tell you, Sean, what I really love about that is when Obama got so upset at him and said, “How many dumb things is Joe Biden going to say,” Biden’s — instead of going on apologizing immediately his first reaction was to get defensive. And sort of said, well, you know, at least I didn’t go out and say all these bitter people who cling to their guns and religion.

HANNITY: That was a great line.

I already said that, Sean.

Just to review, Harry Reid praises Obama’s light skin tone and lack of “Negro dialect”; President Clinton confides to Ted Kennedy that Obama should be fetching their coffee (Irish coffee, boy, if you know what I mean); Hillary Clinton wants to make a campaign issue out of Obama’s admitted drug use (look how far we’ve come from “I didn’t inhale” to “I didn’t OD”); and Joe Biden is the most condescending Senator toward Obama.

And that’s his inner circle!

Hey, thanks for largely ignoring the story, mainstream media. Thanks for painting John and Elizabeth Edwards as the reincarnation of the Cleavers, and all the other fictions you’ve written and facts you’ve suppressed.

I can’t imagine a more ignorant person than someone who reads the New York Times and listens to NPR. We should start a charity to help those people.

I understand Vice President Biden is burying his mom today, so I admit the timing is bad.

But I didn’t say it, and I didn’t write it. I’m just reporting it:

The tensions began in September of 2008 word got back to Obama’s campaign headquarters that Biden had told reporters on his campaign plane that he was more qualified than his running mate to be president. …

Obama himself was growing increasingly frustrated with his running mate after Biden let loose with a string of gaffes, including a statement that paying higher taxes amounted to patriotism and criticism of one of the campaign’s own ads poking fun at John McCain.

But when Biden, at an October fund-raiser in Seattle, famously predicted that Obama would be tested with an international crisis, the then-Illinois senator had had enough.

“How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?” he demanded of his advisers on a conference call, a moment at which most people on the call said the candidate was as angry as they had ever heard him.

How many times you got, Sen. Obama, is how many times he’s going to say something stupid. That’s not an insult, it’s a statement of fact based on his record.

As well you know now that you’re president.

I may think President Obama is a priceless tool—fool, sorry! I meant fool.

Didja ever notice how close the t and the f are on the keyboard? It’s a wonder that doesn’t happen more otfen.

Anyhow, he’s a great boss. He takes his idiot assistant out for burgers:

And his addiction to golf sets such a fine example for others, too:

Sometimes you make exceptions at a members-only golf club.

Especially if someone from the office of Vice President Joe Biden is on the telephone, calling back a second time with a more pointed request.

It happened Sunday morning at The Golf Club at South Shore, at Lake Las Vegas.

When the first call came in at 7 a.m., asking whether Biden could play the course, the PGA professional running the pro shop declined, citing the club’s members-only policy.

A few minutes later, another call: a Biden staffer telling the club pro “you know the vice president would really like to play” and asked whether he could talk to a manager.

The club reversed its stand, and Biden arrived about 11 a.m. with a half-dozen Secret Service personnel.

“We came to our senses, out of courtesy of the position,” said Mark Barrett, with a chuckle. He’s the club’s membership sales director.

Biden’s visit “really created a buzz,” said Barrett, a welcome boost after recent tough times at Lake Las Vegas.

Biden played 17 holes before heading to a fundraiser for Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev.

Wow, pretty cool. I bet they could have hooked him up with a pretty swell hooker, too. Not saying they did. But the man obviously gets to swing his club wherever he wants to.

Only one thing bothers me about this:

It was only a five-second soundbyte, meant for Wall Street fat cats asking for government bailouts.

“You can’t get corporate jets. You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime, ” President Barack Obama said to a town hall meeting in Elkhart, Ind. last week.

But the remark caused a hailstorm of anger from Las Vegas officials, members of the travel industry and even residents. And now the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority will launch a six-figure campaign with ads in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and other publications featuring company testimonials.

“People are telling me that they’re not coming to Las Vegas because the president doesn’t want them to,” Mayor Oscar B. Goodman told the New York Times. Goodman at first demanded an apology from the White House, but later said he would settle for a clarification. “When you make a casual, although not malevolent remark, it can have ramifications which affect the industry as well as all of the citizens who live in southern Nevada,” he told the Associated Press.

I guess Biden’s mooching of a free round of golf (”on the taxpayer’s dime”) on one of the city’s most exclusive courses—nine months after the offending remark—is all the “clarification” they’re going to get.

This is Joe Biden after the release of the 2007 report which claimed that Iran was not building a nuclear bomb.

Question: Remember how all the intelligence reports stated that Iraq had WMDs? And when we couldn’t find them, the Left said: Bush Lied, People Died? How can we forget? Well, apparently, Biden was lying, intentionally misleading the American people. According to the rules established by the Left just a few short years ago, false information, whether it is a result of malevolence or a mistake, is actually a lie.

Joe Biden is a liar.

Thanks for reader RB for showing us the video.

- Aggie

The Woodshed Kid strikes again:

Vice President Joe Biden said today that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama’s agenda.

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“If they take them back, this the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do,” the vice president said at a fundraiser for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) today in Greenville, Delaware…

Biden said these House seats are Republicans “one shot” at breaking the Obama administration’s agenda. But if Democrats can hold on to those seats, “the dam is going to break,” he said, and a new era of bipartisanship will begin.

But the Dems have majorities in both houses of Congress! What is their problem?

Is it possible the AMERICAN PEOPLE don’t like them and don’t trust them?

Wouldn’t be the first time.

Biden is the sodium pentathol of vice presidents: he can’t help but tell the truth.

To liken Vice President Joe Biden to a lamb is wrong in so many ways.

Lambs are cute, cuddly, innocent, and furry—of which Biden is none.

Maybe scapegoat is better. Yeah, goats can be stubborn, belligerent, and destructive.

Make that scapegoat:

Vice President Joe Biden proclaimed success beyond expectations for the $787 billion economic stimulus, but his glowing assessment overlooks many of the program’s problems, including delays in releasing money, questionable spending priorities and project picks that are under investigation.

In a speech aimed squarely at Republican criticism and public skepticism over the costly program’s effectiveness, Biden said accomplishments over the past 100 days provide proof of promises kept when he and President Barack Obama began rolling out the plan earlier this year.

“The Recovery Act is doing more, faster and more efficiently and more effectively than most people expected,” he said.

It’s almost like President Obama is playing a practical joke on him. You expect to see Rahm Emanuel crouching behind the podium, giving him a hotfoot:

Employers trimmed fewer jobs in August than they did the prior month, but the unemployment rate jumped to a 26-year high, the government reported Friday.

There was a net loss of 216,000 jobs in the month, according to the Labor Department. That was the fewest jobs lost since August 2008 and lower than a revised loss of 276,000 jobs in July. Economists surveyed by Briefing.com predicted a loss of 230,000 jobs in August.

The unemployment rate, which in July fell for the first time in 15 months, turned higher again, jumping to 9.7% from 9.4% in July. This is the highest the unemployment rate has been since June 1983.

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The report also showed that there were 9.1 million workers limited to part-time jobs because they couldn’t find full-time positions, up 278,000 from the month before.

That number of so-called underemployed workers had been falling over the past two months, leading to hopes that employers who had been cutting their staff’s hours were at least bringing people back on full time.

Many economists think that adding hours for employees is an important precursor to actual hiring. So the increase in involuntary part-time workers may be viewed as disappointing.

Let’s be fair. Economists now predict the unemployment rate will easily top 10% before this thing is done, so 9.7% isn’t exactly earth-shattering news. But Obama told us his stimulus deal would keep the rate below 8%. So to send Biden out to talk up the stimulus the day before worse-than-expected unemployment numbers are to be released is just cruel. Like laughing at a disabled person or teasing someone with a brain injury.

When Biden makes a fool of himself, I enjoy it as much as the next person. When a calculating SOB like the president does it, I’m not laughing.

When TOTUS Blog was born, we told you about it.

Now, it’s the Biden Gaffe-o-meter, JoeBidenSaidThat

“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened,’”

To be honest, it’s a little sketchy so far—but then, there’s a lot of material to catch up on.

A blogger wakes up in the morning with the nagging fear that he or she will have nothing to write about. The proprietor of JBST just rolls over and scrunches downs into the pillow, warm in the certainty that his blog practically writes itself.

The cashews are mine, hair-plug boy.

If you’re wondering why Vice President Biden crashed the kegger in the Rose Garden, I heard local radio talk show hostess Michelle McPhee offer what seemed a reasonable and deliciously cynical explanation.

The 1994 crime bill:

When Joe Biden has taken an interest in domestic policy, it has mostly had to do with crime. Of the 31 substantive domestic policy bills the Democratic vice presidential nominee has introduced since 2006, 20 related to crime and policing. His single most significant legislative achievement–one that Barack Obama singled out in his remarks introducing Biden as his running mate–remains the massive 1994 crime bill.

Not surprisingly, Biden’s the go-to guy on Capitol Hill for many of America’s police leaders. “More than just about anyone else, he really gets it,” says Providence, Rhode Island, police chief Dean Esserman. “He really does care about cops.”

Maybe we don’t know why a guy who for once didn’t get the administration in trouble with his big mouth was trotted before the cameras—but the cops got the message: he really does care about cops.

Fine. Wise political move. Some of Obama’s best friends care about cops.

He—and Skip Gates—on the other hand, just don’t cotton on to pigs:

[A] black Cambridge police sergeant on the scene the day of Gates’ arrest wrote a letter to Crowley, asking him to mention to Gates and Obama that he is now known as the “black sergeant” and to some others as an “uncle Tom.”

“I’m forced to ponder the notion that as a result of speaking the truth and coming to the defense of a friend and colleague, who just happens to be white, that I have somehow betrayed my heritage,” Sgt. Leon Lashley wrote. “Please convey my concerns to the president that Mr. Gates’ actions may have caused grave and potentially irreparable harm to the struggle for racial harmony in this country and perhaps throughout the world.”

Lashley wrote in the letter he would like Gates to reflect on the incident and ask himself what responsibility he bears, what he can do to heal the rift and what he can do to mitigate the damage done to the officers’ reputations.

The beer may have been peed and belched away, but the bitter taste will linger for a while longer.

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- Aggie