Why They Sent Joe Biden To Munich

The Emperor has no clothes!
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It's absolutely depressing that the whole structure of our government precludes the possibility of just saying what you think without fear of gotcha games by the cable shows. Joe's right. The Dems could get everything they ask for and the economy continue to tank anyway. The whole thing is a Rube Goldberg contraption in the first place, held together by faith and common interest.

"That's it; we're screwed." - Commander Susan Ivanova, Babylon 5
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KT, I am so irritated at Amy Sullivan that I am contemplating violence, but I'm willing to kneecap Blitzer instead if you'll agree to have a conversation with Amy about issue selection and content.
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Seriously, I'm afraid we really are in the soup now.

KT - the Wonk Room is echoing your HHS suggestion of Jack Lew:
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http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/02/06/hhs-candidates/

You know, Karen, it irritates me when these number soundbites are picked out for special attention. I don't have the journalistic/political sophistication of many swamp dwellers but I recognize a blatant attempt to create a story when there is none. Any intelligent listener with common sense would recognize Biden's words for what they were -- an ordinary (and well-intentioned, IMHO) attempt to give the administration's preferred solution a rational perspective. We are in uncharted waters pulling tricks from our voodoo economics bag and there is a good chance it may not work. I think most listeners already understand that. So why make it into such a big deal?
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But it sure as hell beats the crap out of the tired ol' Repub tax cut approach.
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And I really like Wolf Blitzer. His name alone gives him cred.

Oops, make that "Swamp Dwellers" as you are each deserving of respect.
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Well, maybe not hula.

KT, you're the Jerry Seinfeld of journalism. Another post about nothing.

Biden went to Germany?

That channel chunnel must be really long.

Because uncertainty about the uncertain is a "gaffe" and certainty about the uncertain is smart politics (even though it's a lie or a form of self-delusion)? That what your saying, Karen?

Joe hopes to convince Russia to re-subdivide Old Europe.

Since it worked so well before, and in Iraq.

Oh good grape.

Tumultuous tells a legit funny, and the leading limps of liberalism still can't take a joke.

You'd think this week if any would have them laughing in the airhead amnesiac appeasenik aisles.

"KT, you're the Jerry Seinfeld of journalism."
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It's worse, it's Blitzer territory. Seinfeld is insightful on occasion.
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The idea that we are in uncharted waters here and that no one knows what will happen is so elementary, any idiot should understand it. To the Blitzer's of the world, it's a gotcha moment.

Yes the media and political world criticize politicians for merely speaking the truth, as Biden was here. And yes that's unfortunate. But where has he been for the last 35 years? You need to recognize the Rules that govern your profession, however absurd they may be. Can he please go two weeks without giving ammunition to his boss's opponents?
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Is it too late to make a New Year's resolution?

President Obama knew Joe Biden was forthright when he tapped him to be veep. His good still way outweighs his bad. Maybe we're just not used to this kind of honesty in D.C.

"Tumultuous tells a legit funny,..." - hulagate
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I rest my case.

PBS Updude: That walrus lib hack with the huge coke rims declares tonight that "the conservative era is over".

How can that be, given it has a relatively short history in the last 70 years -- where the liberal tenured union establishment retains the marvelous tax and spend controls over most of the failed budgets in modern U.S. history?

Bush was saddled with cleaning up the messes that Carter and Clinton left behind. Those troubles are not low cost, in any respect.

The GOP just "saved" taxpayers about $150 billion more in waste and abuse -- but there too there was room for improvement. The left is so far left they've left for Canada, without even meeting Canada's president, er, prime minister.

We can do more, starting with reversing the Medicrap math, the farm and union subsidies, the junior college funds wasted on dropouts that never learned the basic in hie skoo, a monstrous tax regime, leaking borders, and kicking the cheats out of Team Obama as a 4 Year Plan (it will be a recurring theme, apparently).

Don't worry about the Republicans. They're a known quantity, responsible, predictable, knowledgeable, thrifty, and loyal.

Wake us when the dems as a group show ANY of those tendencies, for longer than a campaign season.

CNN is reporting that Sen. Kennedy will be able to vote tonight.

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Biden pulled a Biden, and the talking heads are gonna focus on the number instead of the larger meaning which Axelrod nailed: the only thing guaranteed is massive failure if nothing is done.
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Actually, I'm pleased with the candid remark. We've been fed too much bullsh!t for way too long.
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The real reason Biden is in Munich, in case anyone is wondering.

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Bad linky! Bad!...We've been fed too much bullsh!t for way too long.

Biden's one of the biggest blowholes in political history, when he bothers to use his own material. Truly, one of the most debilitating psyches in D.C.

My guess IS Obama's regretting the choice every hour, where Bayh or Nunn would have offered much more useful content, and in a format that was not disruptive by design.

Biden has to know that, and it must suck being him.

I think I am in love with g_crush and PD. Now if we could just get Joe Biden to comment on Amy's latest.

"Don't worry about the Republicans. They're a known quantity, responsible, predictable, knowledgeable, thrifty, and loyal."
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What color is the sky on your planet?

KT--I wonder if you even care about the country you children will live in. Why is everyone expected to make sacrifices except the media. The rest of us have to tighten our belts and you and your brethren get to continue with your tomfoolery?
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Give me a break, what are you going to say to your children 20 years from now when they ask you and they will, what did you do to help the situation mommy? You going to tell them well nothing honey because what I do for a living really isn't that important.
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Pearlstein at least asked for Congress people to get some econ education - he might have ever say to hire an advisor to sit by their side, If he can ask Congress to stop saying stupid things about the economy can't you at least ask simple questions like to explain why what they say has any basis in reality -- so they just don't get to put out what ever crap they dream up?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_us_afghanistan

Biden's really headed over the swamp to help increase Russian resistance to NATO expansion and victory over terror.

In that regard, Obama has likely picked the proper pinhead.

The problem is threefold:
1) Joe Biden pulled 30% out of his butt.
2) Wolf Blitzer zeroed in on the 30% that Biden pulled out of his butt.
3) Axelrod didn't do the "what Joe meant to say" routine, explaining (with perhaps a laugh about the 30%) tha Joe is doing some plain speaking to Americans, telling them that we can't know what other problems might occur, and that there are no guarantees -- at that point, Axelrod goes on to talk about guaranteed failure if the GOP gets its way.

In sum, three people acted like idiots, and there is nothing wrong with Karen pointing that out.

"...what are you going to say to your children 20 years from now..."

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