Robert Gates: Destroy US military now before GOP takes Congress.
Setting himself up as the Terry McAuliffe of 2010 — who can forget the then-DNC chairman’s defiant ebullience in the face of Democratic loses in 2002? — Vice President Biden on Thursday promised that Democrats would retain their majorities in the House and the Senate this fall.
“I guarantee you we’re going to have a majority in the House and a majority in the Senate. I absolutely believe that,” Biden said at a morning fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) in Chevy Chase, Md.