LOL....Bob Beckel was actually (almost) reasonable today...I think he is getting to the point that it is just TOO hard being on the dem buffoon's side...
I heard on MSNBC today...Buchanan and Peter Fenn BOTH said that Joe Biden just won't shut up ....and no one can tell him what a fool he makes of himself...
That is 2 down...now we have to get Schmuckie, Leahy, and Durbin...although Durbin, with his Gitmo speech, and Reid with the Abramoff thing....MIGHT be in danger.
WHO---OOO...I think 2006 is gonna be a very good year for the GOP!
Remember when the swimmer was reading this and Fineswine interupted him? She wanted to be sure he read the last line about "women"? ROFL
Shameless!!
Loose Lips Sink . . .
Biden's Leadership Is Lost in All His Talk
By Richard Cohen
Thursday, January 12, 2006; Page A21
The only thing standing between Joe Biden and the presidency is his mouth. That, though, is no small matter. It is a Himalayan barrier, a Sahara of a handicap, a summer's day in Death Valley, a winter's night at the pole (either one) -- an endless list of metaphors intended to show you both the immensity of the problem and to illustrate it with the op-ed version of excess. This, alas, is Joe Biden.
The reviews for Biden's first crack at Samuel Alito, the humorless Supreme Court nominee, were murderous. The New York Times had Biden out on Page One -- normally a position to kill for -- only this time it was not a paean to his considerable merits, but an account of how it took him nearly three minutes of throat-clearing to ask his first question and then took the rest of his allocated 30 minutes just to get in four more. He concluded with about half a minute still left to him -- something of a personal best that even he had to acknowledge.
"I want to note that for maybe the first time in history, Biden is 40 seconds under his time," he told Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, no clipped speaker himself.
The Post had a similar account of Biden running off at the mouth. In that piece, Dana Milbank wrote that during Biden's round of questioning, he "spoke about his own Irish American roots, his 'Grandfather Finnegan,' his son's application to Princeton (he attended the University of Pennsylvania instead, Biden said), a speech the senator gave on the Princeton campus, the fact that Biden is 'not a Princeton fan,' and his views on the eyeglasses of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)."
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But his tendency, his compulsion, his manic-obsessive running of the mouth has become the functional equivalent of womanizing or some other character weakness that disqualifies a man for the presidency. It is his version of corruption, of alcoholism, of a fierce temper or vile views -- all the sorts of things that have crippled candidates in the past. It is, though, an innocent thing, as good-humored as the man and of no real policy consequence. It will merely stunt him politically.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/11/AR2006011102041.html