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WASHINGTON - "When I die I want to reincarnate in Puerto Rico", said the Vice President of the United States, Joseph Biden, last night at a reception honoring the Hispanic Heritage Month. Biden, who in the past has supported statehood for Puerto Rico met a group of Hispanic civic and political leaders at his official residence in Washington, D.C.

Vice President Joe Biden didn't escape Bush's candid assessment, either. "If bullshit were currency, Joe Biden would be a billionaire," Latimer remembers Bush quipping to his staff.

<p>Vice President Joe Biden will hold a Bucks County Fundraiser for Senator Arlen Specter. Congressman Pat Murphy is expected to attend. Here’s your chance to tell Biden/Specter/Murphy just what you think of Obamacare and cap and tax.</p>

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Vice President Joseph Biden and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton listen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009, as President Barack Obama mets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Vice President Joe Biden earlier refused to confirm to CNN that the George W. Bush-era plan was being shelved. But he did explain the logic of doing so, saying Iran — a key concern for the United States — was not a threat. “I think we are fully capable and secure dealing with any present or future potential Iranian threat,” he told CNN’s Chris Lawrence in Baghdad, where he is on a brief trip. “The whole purpose of this exercise we are undertaking is to diminish the prospect of the Iranians destabilizing that region in the world. I am less...

Former Democratic Party chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. has taken over for the late Edward Kennedy in the Senate. Vice President Joe Biden swore in Kirk on Friday hours after a Massachusetts judge rejected a Republican request to delay it. The GOP had argued that Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick exceeded his constitutional authority by appointing Kirk before a traditional 90-day legislative waiting period had expired. State lawmakers passed a bill this week giving Patrick the power to choose an interim senator. Kirk gives Senate Democrats a filibuster-proof, 60-vote majority with the health care fight at a critical point.

Vice President Joe Biden did not need Air Force Two Thursday night to travel across the Potomac River to McLean, Va., to the home of former Democratic Virginia Gov. and Sen. Chuck Robb. It was, of course, a fundraiser, designed to help finance three freshman Democratic House candidates -- Glenn Nye, Gerry Connolly and Tom Perriello -- in their challenging reelection races 13 months from now in what once was a predictably GOP state. Robb himself did not speak at the event. His wife, Lynda, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, introduced the trio of representatives. But it looks like...

Off-script Biden says some Democrats 'turkeys' Posted: September 25th, 2009 09:12 AM ET From From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney (CNN) — Joe Biden has campaigned for a lot of Democrats during his lifetime in politics — including a few who are "turkeys," the vice president joked at a Thursday night fundraiser in Virginia. Attending the fundraising event on behalf of three Democratic House members from Virginia — Reps. Glenn Nye, Gerry Connelly and Tom Perriello — at the home of former Virginia Sen. Chuck Robb, an off-script Biden suggested competence doesn't stretch across the entire Democratic Party. "These guys...

Vice President Joe Biden did not need Air Force Two Thursday night to travel across the Potomac River to McLean, Virginia to the home of former Democratic Virginia governor and senator Chuck Robb. It was, of course, a fundraiser, designed to help finance three freshman Democratic House candidates -- Glenn Nye, Gerry Connelly and Tom Perriello -- in their challenging re-election races 13 months from now in what once was a predictably GOP state. Robb himself did not speak at the event. His wife Lynda, daughter of President Lyndon B. Johnson, introduced the trio of representatives. But it looks like...

Vice President Joe Biden told the nation's governors Thursday that if the $787 billion stimulus fails, "I'm dead." Biden, who holds regular calls with governors and mayors to chart the progress of the stimulus package, said he was pushing accountability standards purely out of "self-interest." "If it fails, I'm dead," he said.

On a conference call today, Vice President Biden told 30 of the nation’s governors that if the Recovery Act fails, he’s “dead.” Biden was providing an update to the governors (and if they couldn’t make it, their Lt. Governor or senior staffer) on the Recovery Act and make sure they were prepared to submit reports next month detailing how stimulus money was spent and how many jobs were created by the funding. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) told the Vice President he couldn’t express how much he and his fellow governors appreciate Biden’s interest. “Pure self-interest, Jay. If it fails,...

Q: What is Robert Byrd's favorite convenience store? A: Sheetz. It reminds him of what he wore when he hung out with the good old boys. Q: Why did Robert Byrd stop reading "The Hobbit?" A: He realized that (Theodore) Bilbo was not on his way to visit a (Grand) Dragon. Q: Why did Robert Byrd stop reading "Lord of the Rings?" A: He realized that the White Wizard was not going to become the Grand Wizard. Q: Why did Robert Byrd like the song "In a White Room?" A: He thought it was about a whites-only room. Q:...

Note: The following text is a quote: HE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22ND, 2009 AT 4:55 PM For Whom the (Trading) Bell Tolls: Reforming Wall St. to Protect Main St. Posted by Jared Bernstein In the heat of the debate about the need to fundamentally reform the way financial markets operate, both here in America and abroad, one crucially important point risks getting lost: the stakes for the middle class. Too often, debates like these end up with the regulators on one side and those whom they would regulate on the other. When the debate is focused...

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2009 AT 5:51 PM “Mom, It's Hokum. It's a Bunch of Malarkey.” Posted by Jesse Lee [ SNIPPET: "At a town hall meeting today with seniors in Silver Spring, MD, Vice President Joe Biden and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius discussed the release of a new report, "Health Insurance Reform and Medicare: Making Medicare Stronger for America's Seniors." The Vice President was perfectly clear: "Nobody is going to mess with your benefits. All we do is make it better for people on Medicare." He joked about having to disabuse his own mother of myths...

The memory of the Vietnam War is holding an increasingly powerful sway over President Obama and his White House team as they explore ways to avoid the surge of troops into Afghanistan urgently being demanded by the US military. Mr Obama and his foreign policy circle have begun openly to use language born of the Vietnam disaster, such as “mission creep” and “quagmire”. It is a clear sign that the President harbours doubts about a deeper military commitment in Afghanistan. Vice-President Biden is leading calls for a change of plan, with a scaling back of troops in Afghanistan and a...

WASHINGTON — President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday. Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who spoke Tuesday in National Harbor, Md., wants to scale back troops in Afghanistan. The options under review are part of what administration officials described as a wholesale reconsideration of a strategy the president announced with fanfare just six months ago. Two new intelligence reports are being conducted to...

Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden was explaining the administration's efforts to work with local governments to distribute stimulus money. The law doesn't give the federal government the authority to force cooperation between states and municipalities, he said, but the administration was trying to—well, best to let Biden's statement speak for itself:

I provided links to 683 scandals, so far, under Obama and his communist sympathizers.

Healthcare reform would extend coverage to more Americans without imperiling insurance companies' profits, Vice President Joe Biden stressed in a speech on Tuesday. Biden, who devoted most of his address before the National Association of Insurance Commissioners to the business merits of healthcare, also sounded a highly personal note, telling the insurance workers in attendance their daily experiences demonstrate why healthcare reform is so imminent. "You're stuck in the middle of it all. You read the letters. You see the tears," Biden said. "I'll bet you if I went around the room of insurance commissioners here, and ask you just...

Joe Biden. The favorite son of Scranton, Pennsylvania currently serving in Wilmington, Delaware in the role of Village Idiot - too much competition for that role in Washington, but the President won't let him play in the federal playground, anyway - has snuck out to talk to the press again. And his words are ominous.

Michelle Obama put the final nail in the coffin in the idea of Hillary Clinton becoming her husband's vice-presidential nominee, according to a new book. Author Christopher Andersen reported that Mrs Obama favoured Joe Biden, the president's eventual choice. "Do you really want Bill and Hillary just down the hall from you in the White House?" she reportedly told her husband. "Could you live with that?" Mr Obama later thought of the masterstroke of appointing the woman he narrowly defeated as his secretary of state. According to the New York Daily News , Mrs Obama was "fascinated" by the choice...

Here is video of conservative Gary Bauer hammering liberals for their selective outrage on "race." Bauer reminded everyone how liberal Democrats treated Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court. Bauer said the liberals are not "pro-Black." They are "pro-liberal blacks," as long as "they stay on the plantation." Below is video of Clarence Thomas firing back at his liberal inquisitors during the hearings . . . (VIDEOS)

Why has the Obama administration decided to toss eastern Europe under the bus in order to make nice with Russia? According to CNN, Joe Biden says that a missile-defense system in Europe isn’t really necessary, because Iran isn’t much of a threat. No, really: Vice President Joe Biden earlier refused to confirm to CNN that the George W. Bush-era plan was being shelved. But he did explain the logic of doing so, saying Iran — a key concern for the United States — was not a threat. --------------------------------------------------------- “I think we are fully capable and secure dealing with any present...

Obama Makes Desperate Move In Health Care Fight Wow ! President Obama is really scratching the bottom of the barrel trying to sell his health care plan. Today he made a speech where he basically said, while illegals would not be covered in the Obamacare bill, he will be working to grant the illegals amnesty so they will be legally covered. The reason for this is twofold, first to get conservative Hispanics behind his plan, and secondarily he knows that amnesty for illegals is an issue that divided the republican party when it was brought up two years ago...No that's...

WASHINGTON -- In a stunning development, several sources revealed yesterday that former President George W. Bush has been wearing theatrical gloves and a mask all these years -- to hide the fact that he is actually black. The sources, all key members of the Democratic Caucus, also indicated that leftists have known all along of Bush’s real skin color but chose not to reveal the shocker in order to continue protesting his Gulf War policies and his determined effort to weave Bushisms into the English lexicon. “I knew it all along! Everyone on the left is racist,” said Republican National...

Wonder if Keith Olbermann will address this.

On a Sunday afternoon not long after he was elected vice president, Joe Biden recalls, he learned a lesson about his new station in life. Biden was finishing up a call with his new chief of staff, Ron Klain, when he dropped the news that his friend Ted Kaufman would be filling his Senate seat. “Did you tell the president?” asked Klain, who, as an aide to Al Gore, had learned something about vice presidents and their place. “Why the hell should I tell the president?” Biden remembers thinking. After all, for 36 years, Biden had been his own man,...

Veep determined to remain his own man while on Obama's teamOn a Sunday afternoon not long after he was elected vice president, Joe Biden recalls, he learned a lesson about his new station in life. Biden was finishing up a call with his new chief of staff, Ron Klain, when he dropped the news that his friend Ted Kaufman would be filling his Senate seat. “Did you tell the president?” asked Klain, who, as an aide to Al Gore, had learned something about vice presidents and their place. “Why the hell should I tell the president?” Biden remembers thinking. After...

Sarah Palin isn’t vice president. And she probably won’t ever be president. Heck - she’s not even a governor anymore. But the Alaskan pol has achieved one measure of fame - someone’s written an opera about her. “Say It Ain’t So, Joe,” a presentation by Guerilla Opera, opens Saturday at Boston Conservatory’s Zack Box Theater. The work is composer Curtis Hughes’ musical take on America’s favorite moose-hunting winker, you betcha. It focuses on that contentious - and sometimes comical - debate from October 2008 between Palin and Joe Biden, though the show also includes cameos from Hillary Clinton, Gwen Ifill,...

With Friends Like Joe Biden… 31 August, 17:00 | Anthony T. Salvia, Special to Kyiv Post Bucking the wishes of a solid majority of Ukrainians, President Victor Yushchenko is plowing ahead with plans to incorporate Ukraine in NATO. In early August, he signed off on a national program to meet NATO membership criteria and gave his cabinet four weeks to present him with an implementation scheme. It’s a politically risky move that recently got a lot riskier thanks to the activities of a voluble overseas friend of the President’s. I refer to U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden and his recent...

The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York on Friday to mark the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Spokesman Robert Gibbs says Biden will take part in the memorial service honoring the victims. The vice president's wife, Jill Biden, will also attend. President Barack Obama will be at the Pentagon Friday to visit the memorial to those who died there in the 2001 attacks and meet victims' families.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden asserted Thursday that a health care bill will be done by Thanksgiving because President Barack Obama has “re-centered debate” and there’s an emerging bipartisan consensus for change despite fights over details like the government-run option. “I think the most important thing he did, he also debunked a lot of the myths out there, the idea of death panels, that we were going to insure undocumented aliens,” said Biden, touring the morning network news shows a day after Obama delivered what he hopes was a game-changing appeal to a joint session of Congress.

Joe Biden has given an excellent example of the famous aphorism that "a gaffe is when a politician tells the truth." Appearing on Good Morning America today to talk up Pres. Obama's health care speech to Congress, the veep praised his boss for debunking various supposedly false assertions, including "how we're going to insure illegal aliens." Biden was just about to move on when, realizing his crime against political correctness, he revised his remark: "undocumented aliens," quoth the VP. View video here.

WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden says a Republican congressman's outburst during President Barack Obama's health-care speech Wednesday night "demeaned the institution." South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson shouted "You lie" after Obama said extending health care to all Americans would not mean insuring illegal immigrants. Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America" Thursday, Biden said the incident made him "embarrassed for the chamber and a Congress I love."

Vice President Joe Biden marked the 200-day point of the stimulus package today with a speech at the Brookings Institution, where he spent nearly an hour ticking off its achievements so far. Among other things, Biden said some economists had given the $787 billion stimulus bill credit for creating 500,000 to 750,000 jobs and boosting the gross domestic product in the two most recent quarters. The administration has benefitted from rosy economic numbers in recent weeks. The Federal Reserve, in minutes released Wednesday night, credited the stimulus with playing a role in stabilizing the economy. But any assessment of the...

Radio's Don Imus appeared on a special Labor Day edition of "Hannity" Monday evening, and really let President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have it. In a no holds barred discussion on Fox News, Imus said he thought Obama "was a hypocrite and a phony," and that Biden, in the 100 times he's interviewed him, has said "far worse things" than he's ever said on radio. In Imus's view, Biden's "a moron" (video embedded below the fold with partial transcript, h/t Story Balloon): DON IMUS, RADIO HOST: Even my own personal experience with [Barack Obama], and I thought...

Controversial legislation that would make it easier to organize unions will pass this year, Vice President Joe Biden said today. Appearing at a Labor Day rally in Pittsburgh, Biden praised the role of unions in building the middle class and said the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) will make it through Congress before the end of the year, the Associated Press reports. That's a very optimistic timeline, considering that Democrats are already putting all their legislative muscle behind healthcare reform.

Under a rainy sky, Vice President Joe Biden appeared at today's annual Pittsburgh Labor Day parade, joined by U.S. Sen Arlen Specter and Jack Shea, president of the Allegheny County Labor Council. Mr. Biden joked that the parade organizers would never invite him back, noting that his appearance last year was also weather-challenged -- then with the threat to the Gulf Coast of Hurricane Gustav, which prompted him to cancel his visit. While noting that "people are hurting" across the country, he boasted of the effects of the administration's economic stimulus package. Mr. Biden praised Mr. Specter's role in supporting...

Note: The following text is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release September 4, 2009 Vice President Biden Announces Finalized $535 Million Loan Guarantee for Solyndra Recovery Act funding will accelerate job creation and help expand marketplace for innovative solar electric panels FREMONT, CA – Vice President Joe Biden, appearing via satellite from Washington D.C., today announced the Department of Energy has finalized a $535 million loan guarantee for Solyndra, Inc., which manufactures innovative cylindrical solar photovoltaic panels that provide clean, renewable energy. The funding will finance construction of the...

Here is video of Fox Business Channel's Stuart Varney today talking about the new U.S. Unemployment numbers, which now stands at 9.7%. Varney said Vice-President Biden's statement yesterday, that the Obama Stimulus Plan has "created or saved 750,000 job," is "fantasy land." Varney said at the best, Biden is "spinning," and at the worst he is speaking "economic nonsense" and is "misleading people." Varney cracked that maybe Van Jones has created all those jobs - "the wildly successful "Green Jobs Czar." . . . . (Watch Video)

"What's that you're trying to tell me, boy? My administration's fallen down a well...?"

WASHINGTON — 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.

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Vice President Joe Biden tried to blunt lingering skepticism of the Obama administration’s $787 billion stimulus plan Thursday. “I believe this was the right thing to do morally,” Biden said in a speech the White House billed as a major address. “It was also the smart thing to do economically.” Biden’s 35-minute speech included a look back at the state of the economy when President Barack Obama took office, a detailed defense of the stimulus package’s effectiveness in its second 100 days and a plea for patience as it continues to make more of an impact. The vice president touched...