Joe Biden, Truthteller?

James Lileks has a good article up in the New York Post about Joe Biden, our bumbling, loudmouth vice president. Lileks argues that the vice president's various gaffes reveal what the administration is really thinking, and that Biden is just letting the truth slip. It's an interesting theory that runs counter to conventional thinking, which just boils down to Biden being an idiot who can't keep his mouth shut, and who blurts out the first thing that comes to mind. In contrast, Lileks sees Biden as an idiot that can't keep his mouth shut who blurts out the truth -- against Obama's wishes. Politicians are never supposed to tell the unvarnished truth as they see it. The article is pretty amusing and definitely worth reading.

Joe Biden and his antics serve as a prime example of why I laugh at many of Sarah Palin's most extreme critics. Assorted leftists and others pretend to be horrified by the thought that Palin might have been vice president. Yet most of these same people actually voted for an incompetent, clueless buffoon: Joe Biden. 

Reading the Left for Amusement

I often read Open Left, not for amusement, but because it normally provides one of the more rational left-wing perspectives.  But today it made me laugh.  Matt Stoller has a post up called, "Lowering Expectations for Obama/Biden," which is a reaction to some recent statements by Joe Biden.  First off, there is the title.  When I saw it, I immediately thought, "how much lower could could expectations be"? Then I remembered I was on a liberal blog.

Reading through the post, Stoller refers to Dick Cheney as a "brutal monster."  I had visions of Democrats scaring their children by telling them stories about the evil Cheney monster, who might come to get them if they didn't grow up to be good liberals.  Stoller goes on to whine about Iran Contra.  He's still mad that the Clinton administration didn't seek vengeance against the previous administration.  Really.  He laments the "illegal war in Central America and egregious desecration of the Constitution." I always find it laughable whenever left-wingers go on about how wars are "illegal," as if that had any actual meaning.  And of course since the Constitution is still in place and operating, I guess it wasn't desecrated too egregiously.  I keep asking which constitutional rights we've lost, but I've yet to hear any answers other than incoherent sputtering about the horrors of Bush/Cheney.  

There's still more amusement to be had, but it's mostly just garden variety BDS, combined with a shot at Obama for picking Rick Warren -- another thing the left is all upset about.

 

Joe Biden to Do Nothing as VP

According to an AP report this morning,  Vice President-elect Joe Biden will "oversee a task force" to "make recommendations on how to build the ranks of the middle class."

Hmm.  It sounds like President-elect Obama knows that Biden is a loose cannon who can't be trusted with any significant responsibilites, and has decided to give him something harmless to waste time on when not attending state funerals.

Biden: "Hey Barack, what do you have in mind for my role?  How are you going to use my superior intelligence and experience? Huh, what've you got for me?"

Obama: "Well, Joe, I've been thinking.  I'm creating a task force to, uh, build the middle class, and I want you to head it."