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Exclusive: Biden to limit role of vice president
Politico ^ | 12/06/2008 | Mike Allen

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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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Delaware
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2008veep; bho2008; biden; bidenvp; obama; reid; senate
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To: Yo-Yo

Obama to Biden: “Yo! Le Garçon de Pisse!”


21 posted on 12/06/2008 1:24:51 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: PapaBear3625
It may just be that Biden smells what is coming, and is trying hard to distance himself from blame.

BS is a reeking factor in that statement.

22 posted on 12/06/2008 1:26:18 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: HarryCaul

***I give the Obama administration credit for finding a positive spin on what seems to be a story of being put on notice by their own party. ***

LOL!

EXACTLY!

They found a way to gag “foot in the mouth” Biden.


23 posted on 12/06/2008 1:29:10 PM PST by kitkat (THE DAY WE LOSE OUR WILL TO FIGHT WILL BE THE DAY WE LOSE OUR FREEDOM.)
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To: HarryCaul

I think the historic role of the Vice President was to feed pigeons in the park across from the White House...at least that’s what Alexander Throttlebottom used to spend his time doing. That would be something Joe could handle without screwing up.


24 posted on 12/06/2008 1:30:03 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: HarryCaul
Joe Biden: “I'm corrupt, incompetent and malfeasant, so I will downsize the role of Vice President until I can properly execute the office. Don't wait up for me".
25 posted on 12/06/2008 1:34:40 PM PST by Navy Patriot (John McCain, the Manchurian Candidate, makes a Marxist President.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
I think the historic role of the Vice President was to feed pigeons in the park across from the White House...at least that’s what Alexander Throttlebottom used to spend his time doing. That would be something Joe could handle without screwing up.

That's easy to say for one who isn't a pigeon in need of food.

Many pigeons could die....

26 posted on 12/06/2008 1:36:00 PM PST by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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To: HarryCaul

If anyone around this dimwitted cretin has any influence on him, they will encourage him to hide for the next for years. Joe bin Biden is an idiot.


27 posted on 12/06/2008 1:37:53 PM PST by pallis
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To: Cementjungle
How dare you, forget about the part where he starved the elderly in ‘the chamber’ and made them listen to pearl jam 24 hours a day.
28 posted on 12/06/2008 1:39:01 PM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Abortion has become little more than the New Left's execution of political prisoners.)
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To: EGPWS

Pigeons need to learn self-reliance...otherwise the park will be overrun with lazy and stupid pigeons. You never saw Dick Cheney over there feeding the pigeons. Survival of the fittest!


29 posted on 12/06/2008 1:41:53 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: HarryCaul

Psssst, Hey Biden you silly ass!

The Constitution defines the Vice President as the PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE...

Lord help us, the country in is the hands of certifiable fools, liars, knaves and incompetent buy HIGHLY PAID assholes.


30 posted on 12/06/2008 1:47:48 PM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: JimSEA

That’s right—for all those aging Senators, heads of state, and Hillary’s enemies.


31 posted on 12/06/2008 1:50:20 PM PST by Palladin (Obama on Ayers: "He's just a guy in my neighborhood." LIAR!!!)
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To: Proud_texan

Can’t post what I want to say, at least publically.


32 posted on 12/06/2008 1:54:10 PM PST by hkp123
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To: Palladin

I could have sworn I heard Biden say during the campaign that he would be a good liaison to the Senate because he knew it so well.


33 posted on 12/06/2008 1:54:51 PM PST by rightazrain (Our Constitution is hanging on how Justice Kennedy feels when he gets up in the a.m.-Rush Limbaugh)
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To: HarryCaul

I don’t think Biden was given a choice in the matter. He knows he is about 2 strokes past an 80 IQ and has nothing to offer.


34 posted on 12/06/2008 1:55:33 PM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: hkp123

Doh, can’t spell either


35 posted on 12/06/2008 1:57:12 PM PST by hkp123
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To: HarryCaul

Obama IS the savior...first he dispatched the Clintons and now Biden is dispatched to a corner with his DUNCE CAP on!


36 posted on 12/06/2008 2:01:39 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: HarryCaul

Obama IS the savior...first he dispatched the Clintons and now Biden is dispatched to a corner with his DUNCE CAP on!


37 posted on 12/06/2008 2:02:52 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience)
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To: PapaBear3625
Biden smells what is coming

He has seen everything in DC, and he has seen this movie before. Why there are 300,000 job applications for the 3,000 new administration jobs might be among the signs he sees.

38 posted on 12/06/2008 2:05:04 PM PST by RightWhale (We were so young two years ago and the DJIA was 12,000)
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To: boxer21

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Bubba was corrrect twice (NAFTA and signing welfare reform after Congress game him two Mulligans.) Here’s one of Obama’s two. I wonder how long it will take to find Ø’s second correct choice.


39 posted on 12/06/2008 2:07:34 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer
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To: hkp123

I didn’t feel comfortable posting what John Nance Garner actually said either....


40 posted on 12/06/2008 2:09:35 PM PST by Proud_texan (Scare people enough and they'll do anything.)
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