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Joe Biden Archive

Wednesday

23

May 2012

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Joe Biden's Imagination

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Joe Biden says to “imagine where we’d be if the Tea Party hadn’t taken control of the House of Representatives.”

Thanks to new, cutting edge technology I have tapped into Joe’s brain and extracted just such imagination in lyrical form:

Imagine there’s no Tea Party,
It’s easy if you try.
No investigations for us,
Our only limits are the sky.
Imagine all the Keynesians
Spending for today.

Imagine there’s no elections,
It isn’t hard to do.
Nobody to elect or vote for,
And no Constitution too.
Imagine all the bureaucrats
Dictating life in peace.

You may say Old Joe’s a socialist,
But I’m not the only one.
Someday you’ll be forced to join us,
And the Party will be as one.

Imagine no free choices,
I wonder if you can.
No need for self-reliance,
Julia’s life is in our hands.
Imagine all the people,
Sharing Obama’s stash.

You may say I’m a schemer,
But I’m not the only one.
I know someday you’ll join us,
And we’ll all worship The One.

Friday

27

January 2012

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Our Racist* VP

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He managed to stop himself before slipping in a “Thank you, come again.”

*And just to be clear, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I don’t think Biden is actually a racist. I think he’s an idiot. But we all know what the narrative would be if someone with an R after their name was equally as boneheaded.

Wednesday

6

October 2010

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Sunday

26

July 2009

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Joltin' Joe Strikes Out

Written by , Posted in Economics & the Economy

Vice President Biden in a New York Time’s op-ed on the porkulus:

The care with which we are carrying out the provisions of the Recovery Act has led some people to ask whether we are moving too slowly. But the act was intended to provide steady support for our economy over an extended period — not a jolt that would last only a few months.

Contrast this with these Bidenisms over the previous weeks and months:

June 2, 2009:

And, of course, we also came forward with what we’re going to talk about today, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, an initial big jolt to give the economy a real head start.

March 28, 2009:

The Recovery Act, as we call it, provides a necessary jolt to our economy to implement what we refer as “shovel-ready” projects…

Also, here’s Obama from November, 2008:

But what I want to emphasize is that there is a consensus among across the political spectrum that we need a stimulus, and we have to make sure that the stimulus is significant enough that it really gives a jolt to the economy, that it is putting people back to work, that it is making investments, that it is restoring some confidence in the business community that, in fact, their products and services are going to have customers.

And so we are going to do what’s required to jolt this — this economy back — back into shape.

And finally, here’s Obama in his very first little press conference telling us how only the big, bad federal government could give us that electric feeling:

But at this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back to life. It is only government that can break the vicious cycle where lost jobs lead to people spending less money which leads to even more layoffs. And breaking that cycle is exactly what the plan that’s moving through Congress is designed to do.

Hat-tip: NRO’s The Corner

Saturday

31

January 2009

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Obama's Patriotism Deficient Cabinet

Written by , Posted in Taxes, Waste & Government Reform

“It’s time to be patriotic, time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut [by paying more taxes]”
– Vice President Joe Biden

Obama Appointments:

Tim Geithner – Secretary of the Treasury – owed $34,000 in back taxes.
Tom Daschle – Secretary of Health and Human Services – owed $128,203 in back taxes.

More to come?  How many other Obama nominees will be found out to lack patriotism, by Joe Biden’s standards?

Tuesday

6

January 2009

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Biden Goes To War

Written by , Posted in Economics & the Economy

Joe Biden has finally realized we’re at war.  This might be encouraging if he was referring to radical Islamic jihad.  Sadly, Joe Biden has another enemy set in his sights: the economy.

Vice-president-elect Joe Biden likened the country’s economic crisis to the attacks of 9/11 Monday in a private meeting on Capitol Hill.

“We’re at war,” Biden told congressional leaders of both parties during their sit-down with Barack Obama in the Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the exchange.

It’s not the first time the vice-president-elect has used stark language to underscore the perilous state of the economy. In an interview last month on ABC’s “This Week,” Biden said that a stimulus package was needed to keep the economy from “absolutely tanking.”

Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said Biden “was speaking of how after September 11th, that the Congress came together and worked together for the sake of the country, that the Congress worked day and night to accomplish what was necessary. We did it then and we can do it now.”

The left has been dying to find a crisis they could exploit to pass their big government agenda.  As soon to be chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel put it, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

Obama fashions himself after FDR, a disaster of a President who prolonged the misery of the 30’s.  Roosevelt also understood the power of crisis for making huge power grabs.  He even went so far as to try to deliberately exacerbate the crisis, arguing with his Treasury Secretary, Henry Morgenthau, that they should manipulate bond prices and keep them chaotic for political gain.

Will Obama-Biden stoop to that level?  It’s impossible to know, but the agenda they plan to ram through, under the false pretense of “saving” us from a financial crisis that left only 99.65% of commercial banks in business through 2008, will be bad enough.  In order to ensure this agenda can pass without too much scrutiny, expect them to continue sounding the false siren of war.