Posted on 12/06/2008 1:10:30 PM PST by HarryCaul
Dialing back his predecessor’s expansive view of the office, Vice President-elect Joe Biden plans on “restoring the Office of the Vice President to its historical role” as adviser to the president and tie-breaker in the Senate, an aide to Biden said Saturday.
The declaration results from an attention-getting article coming from the Las Vegas Sun, which is reporting Sunday in a story by Washington Bureau reporter Lisa Mascaro that the new Congress “will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Sun.”
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Obama found a closet and role of duct tape just right for Biden.
Quite modest for a man of his I.Q.
When asked for the reason behind his actions, Vice President-Elect Biden was quoted as saying “I’ve been a U.S. Senator for thirty years. I’m just not used to working that hard.”
Poor crazy old Joe—he’s been put out to pasture.
Aha, just as I thought (probably Obama’s idea though). Biden will spend four years of relative leisure and obscurity.
Of course, it’s based on the fallacious premise that VP Cheney overstepped his bounds or had some hand in an imperialist expansion of America.
These are all lies, people. VP Cheney did an excellent job. If anything, I believe he was too silent when he could have been making the case for America’s goodness and rightness in pursuing this war against ‘people’ who murder children.
Obama found a closet and role of duct tape just right for Biden.
Yup!
He served his purpose.
Now it is time for Biden to SHUT UP!
Seen but not heard.
Hey, Joe. Here’s your bucket of spit.
Obama to Biden: “Joe, I’ve got one word for you; ‘duct tape.’”
I wonder... Maybe Cheney should have run for President in 1996.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2mzbuRgnI4
Cheney built a torture chamber in the basement of the Naval Observatory, set up his own wiretapping operation to personally listen in on 736 million phone conversations per hour, and was very active in clubbing baby seals (in that specially equipped, refrigerated chamber in the Observatory), and all sorts of other activities.
It's awesome that Biden will cease these practices!
He (Joe Biden) will be Vice President of the United States of America.
I fail to see the point of further discussion in VP limitation.
Biden automatically limits whatever office he holds.
I wouldn't worry over much about him. From the looks of things, there will be plenty of funerals for him to attend.
It may just be that Biden smells what is coming, and is trying hard to distance himself from blame.
I beat you by 10 seconds my FRiend. ; )
Biden is one hell of an insurance policy for 0. Exactly what would happen if Joe were President? I see this as a threat of what might happen if anything might happen to 0.
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