SENATOR BIDEN'S LEVEL PLAYING FIELD Democratic Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware has been a great friend of feminists. He was a major force in getting the "Violence Against Women Act" passed. He supports feminist causes and hobnobs with feminist leaders. He even had hair plugs, so that he could be more of a friend to women.
Biden supports affirmative action and other social engineering to"level the playing field" for women and make everything nice and fair. So Joe Biden is a real fair-minded guy, right?
If you want to find out just how fair he is, ask the thousands of people who just tried to compete for a job opening against Joseph R. "Beau"Biden III, the senator's son.
About 4,000 people applied for entry-level positions last year at the Justice Department. These positions are prestige jobs for young lawyers -- hotly sought out as a ticket to power and inside contacts. Out of those 4,000 applicants, only 163 were hired. And one of them was the senator's son.
Pop and Junior both say that the younger Biden was qualified for theposition. (Such whiny white males -- since when did being qualified for a job mean that you should get it?) But if the younger Biden s "qualified," it's worth noting that when got his law degree in 1994 from Syracuse University, he had a grade point average of 2.69 -- not even good enough to put him in the top 25 percent of his class.
So if he can't make the top 25 percent of one graduating class, how did he suddenly shoot to the top 4 percent of 4,000 job applicants from across the nation?
Surely it was just a coincidence? What kind of strings could Biden possibly have pulled? Well, let's see. Senator Biden is on the Senate Judiciary Committee. In fact, he used to be its chairman. And the Judiciary Committee oversees the Justice Department, where the senator's sonjust got that prestigious job.
And one of the projects the younger Biden will be working on is the Violence Against Women Act -- one of Senator Biden's sacred cows. But this sort of thing is not a habit with Senator Biden, is it?'
Well, let's take a look at the Government Printing Office. The chief lobbyist for the GPO, getting a nice $78,000 a year paycheck, is a man named Francis W. "Frank" Biden. He's the senator's younger brother.
We are proud of Senator Biden for showing us how liberal ethics are put into action -- "do as I say, not as I do." Senator Biden had demanded that we "level the playing field." Everyone out there who feels that affirmative action is unfair will just have to shut up about it and take their lumps. Meanwhile, there is some affirmative action in getting people named Biden -- a woefully underrepresented minority -- onto Capitol Hill.
Senator Biden indeed levels the playing field.
Just think of all those other applicants who get leveled when someone named "Biden" came along.
Regards . . . Penny