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Biden Promised Harris Lunch ‘Once a Week.’ They’ve Had Two This Year
Real Clear Politics ^ | April 28, 2022 | Phil Wegman

Posted on 04/28/2022 6:52:21 AM PDT by billorites

Joe Biden takes lunch seriously. As vice president, his weekly lunch with Obama wasn’t just a meal. It was a meeting when things really got done, a moment set aside on the White House calendar for the two men to break bread and build out an agenda.

The weekly meal was so important to Biden that he carried over the tradition to his own presidency. "I made the same deal with her that Barack and I made," he said of his newly minted vice president just weeks after his inauguration. That meant drop-in privileges at the Oval Office and carte blanche over executive office meetings, Biden told People magazine, but also “lunch alone once a week.”

“That's the deal when we're both in-country,” he explained, “which we'll be for a while because of COVID, and I see her all the time.”

And yet, according to a review of the president’s public schedule by RealClearPolitics, Biden and Harris have only sat down to lunch twice this year, a significant drop when compared to the 12 times they shared the meal together by this same point last year.

For Biden and Harris, lunch this year has followed major developments. The two shared a meal on February 8, when the search for a Supreme Court nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer was ongoing, and another lunch on March 30, shortly after Biden returned from Warsaw to rally the West after Russian invaded Ukraine.

White House aides insist that the executive lunches, while important to both Biden and Harris, are not the ultimate barometer of cooperation between the two.

“The president and vice president are in constant touch with each other,” Deputy Press Secretary Chris Meagher told RCP. “And he relies on her counsel, partnership, and friendship as they work together

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1 posted on 04/28/2022 6:52:21 AM PDT by billorites
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In Joe's defense, it would be absolute torture to sit and talk to her over lunch.

In Kamala's defense, Joe wouldn't even remember the pain 4 minutes after the lunch was over.

2 posted on 04/28/2022 6:54:04 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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What? What? Biden’s a two bit liar and so is heels up?

I’m shocked I tell you - shocked.


3 posted on 04/28/2022 6:54:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Gumballs and illegals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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Ya, but he’s sent her several McDonald’s gift cards, so she can go to lunch...


4 posted on 04/28/2022 6:58:41 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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Ha! Neither one of them has anything to say...so why meet for anything??


5 posted on 04/28/2022 6:59:26 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: billorites

Maybe Joe was expecting her to be serving the coffee.


6 posted on 04/28/2022 7:02:48 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: billorites

You’re my little chuchy face and you’re my teddy bear...


7 posted on 04/28/2022 7:06:55 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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I guess he couldn’t foresee the pitfalls created by choosing an officeholder strictly by their sex and skin color.

It gets you something like Kamala and Brown-Jackson.


8 posted on 04/28/2022 7:07:26 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To be fair, I don’t think Kamala has been in Delaware has she?


9 posted on 04/28/2022 7:10:31 AM PDT by jacknhoo ( Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang reference. How fitting. Nice.


10 posted on 04/28/2022 7:12:28 AM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: billorites

Same thing happened with Willie Brown.


11 posted on 04/28/2022 7:19:22 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: dead
It was a meeting when things really got done, a moment set aside on the White House calendar for the two men to break bread and build out an agenda.

What if we don't want anything done? Why must govt leaders have to do something? How about just leaving people alone for a change. Maybe even doing something useful, like simplifying the tax code.
12 posted on 04/28/2022 7:19:45 AM PDT by Nifty
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To: billorites

I imagine Dr. Jill has told Jo Jo that she doesn’t appreciate the thing he has going on with minority women.


13 posted on 04/28/2022 7:21:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: billorites

They must be both ‘Out to Lunch’.


14 posted on 04/28/2022 7:21:52 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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Not enough “Cream of Wheat” to go around?


15 posted on 04/28/2022 7:26:08 AM PDT by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: billorites

Also in Joe’s defense, he probably thinks he has had lunch meetings with her every week.


16 posted on 04/28/2022 7:28:22 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy. I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: billorites

To be fair, not everyone likes to eat pudding ang baby food every day.


17 posted on 04/28/2022 7:30:30 AM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: billorites
He won't meet with AOC anymore either.


18 posted on 04/28/2022 7:31:30 AM PDT by dead (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_vFiUUcBkc)
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Gee, I can only imagine how those conversations would be.


19 posted on 04/28/2022 7:33:47 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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It was a meeting when things really got done

What a crock. "Things" (the seditious, anti Christ, anti liberty, anti American acts) got done while O'Dummy was still in bed. Then, when he got up around 11am, he glanced at the bills his staff (the raghead brotherhood) had already signed.

And pedo joe was nowhere to be found. Not even O'Dummy, the greatest fraud of all time, trusted his second in command.

Leave it to joe to (foul) things up

20 posted on 04/28/2022 7:38:43 AM PDT by LouAvul
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