Paging Joe Biden's Brain surgeon

[Elvado]

alert your malpractice carrier. Your patient just said that "we must spend money to keep from going bankrupt."

Somewhere Sarah Palin is laughing her ass off.

[DrumsGoBang]

Actually makes sense. You got spend money to make money.

Economics...it works!....not always.

[EasyEd]

Biden, the gift that keeps giving.

[kchoya]

Jul 17, 2009 8:56:06 GMT -5 DrumsGoBang said:

Actually makes sense. You got spend money to make money.

Economics...it works!....not always.

So let's take away more money from the "rich" so they have less to spend and pay their workers.

[DrumsGoBang]

No, we take money away from the rich to pay other workers (health care workers). If we let the rich people keep their money they might not spend it on their workers, they might spend it on a trip on a Russian rocket to space and that money is lost from our economy.

[jerseyhoya34]

They might also spend it to lay off their workers.

[Boz]

Screw the rich. What have they ever done for us?



;D

[AustinHoya03]

Is Joe Biden's head doc the same guy who did his hair plugs? If so, that dude should be worried about malpractice lawsuits for multiple reasons.

[Bando]

Jul 17, 2009 12:00:55 GMT -5 Boz said:

Screw the rich. What have they ever done for us?



;D

I was really hoping the link was going to go to "Eat the Rich".

[Boz]

July 16:
"To those who say that our economic decisions 'have not produced jobs, have not produced prosperity, and simply have not worked' I say, take a look around. I say, 'Don't let your opposition to the Recovery Act blind you to its results.' Come see what I see everywhere I go: workers rehired, factories reopened, cops on the street, teachers in the classroom, progress toward getting our economy back on the move."

-- Vice President Joe Biden speaking in Richmond, Va.


July 17:
"The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today that Virginia lost 22,800 jobs last month and the unemployment rate rose to 7.2 percent."


The man has got his finger squa' on the pulse, I tells ya'!!

[Elvado]

He is the one who should never leave home without a teleprompter. He borders on the tragicomic in his propensity for idiotic comments.

[JohnJacquesLayup]

I've seen a lot of ARRA signs posted throughout the North East, so it must be working.

Edit:

www.fhwa.dot.gov/economicrecovery/arrasignguidance.htm

If the sign tells me it's putting America back to work, I believe that over your silly statistics.

[jerseyhoya34]

Jul 17, 2009 12:37:26 GMT -5 Elvado said:

He is the one who should never leave home without a teleprompter. He borders on the tragicomic in his propensity for idiotic comments.

I have my problems with Biden, but I find him far less dangerous than the two people who have most recently been judged to be most qualified in the Republican Party to be a heart beat from the presidency - Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin.

The former, like Biden, is prone to irresponsible rhetorical flourishes, but, unlike Biden, makes such misstatements with American blood and treasure on the line.

Palin, on the other hand, has not shone herself to be capable of cogent rhetorical flourishes. The most apt comparison I can make is to a contestant on Family Feud who is perhaps the weakest in a particular family. Regardless of how wrong her answers are, there is usually a family member, in this case a Republican, to clap with a Edited-eating grin and shout "good answer."

[DrumsGoBang]

Jul 17, 2009 11:59:19 GMT -5 @jerseyhoya34 said:

They might also spend it to lay off their workers.

That is a great idea. Next time someone gets fired, they should use all that severance to throw a big firing party. Catering, pony rides and more

[Boz]

There is not American blood and treasure on the line with the things Biden is talking about?

Huh. Coulda' fooled me.

[jerseyhoya34]

Jul 17, 2009 13:16:53 GMT -5 Boz said:

There is not American blood and treasure on the line with the things Biden is talking about?

Huh. Coulda' fooled me.

As far as I am aware, Biden has never made a material misstatement of fact that has landed over 100,000 American troops in a battlefield on an Easter Egg hunt for weapons that were not there.

[Boz]

Of course he did, in fact, vote for the war.

Joe Biden on Meet The Press leading up to the Iraq invasion: "He’s [Saddam Hussein] a long term threat and a short term threat to our national security… “We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.”


He was also the genius who was trying to tell everyone that dividing Iraq into three countries was the best solution.

But whatever. You're right. Cheney is just the Evil Satan.

[Elvado]

You can't blame Biden for the Tri-partite Iraq solution. He plagiarized it.

[jerseyhoya34]

Jul 17, 2009 13:31:58 GMT -5 Boz said:

Of course he did, in fact, vote for the war.

Joe Biden on Meet The Press leading up to the Iraq invasion: "He’s [Saddam Hussein] a long term threat and a short term threat to our national security… “We have no choice but to eliminate the threat. This is a guy who is an extreme danger to the world.”


He was also the genius who was trying to tell everyone that dividing Iraq into three countries was the best solution.

But whatever. You're right. Cheney is just the Evil Satan.

I don't think there's a material misstatement in that quote. I think there is general agreement that there was a threat from Saddam and that Saddam was generally dangerous, leading to the conclusion that the threat should have been eliminated through a more aggressive containment regime, regime change, or whatever else.

In that climate, then-VP Cheney with some of his colleagues took on an unprecedented role in developing intelligence, including, but not limited to, hiding covert programs from senior intelligence officials, massaging facts in speeches (see "mushroom cloud" discussion, "Yellow Cake" misstatements, etc.). At his urging, he and his colleagues then dispatched Colin Powell to the UN to make what, as it turns out, was a troubling speech if only for the degree to which it misread the intelligence - see aluminum tubes, mobile labs, etc.

Biden's mistake, which he has acknowledged, was the vote to give authority to the President to use military force. This vote was based, in part, on a reasonable position that the intelligence presented to Congress was correct. We should expect nothing less of the Executive Branch. He did vote, however, for specific checks on the authority, including the Byrd Amendment as to timetable. As to any comments made by Biden on weapons, they should probably be read through the lens of the intelligence well that was poisoned. I don't think any reasonable person would find Biden as culpable as Cheney in these respects and certainly would not credit Biden as much as Cheney for the war or as a source of materially incorrect intelligence.

[jerseyhoya34]

Jul 17, 2009 14:04:04 GMT -5 Elvado said:

You can't blame Biden for the Tri-partite Iraq solution. He plagiarized it.

Sarah Palin has her own problems in this area, although perhaps she was not taught proper methods of citation at North Idaho College or Hawaii Pacific College. A quick review of Wikipedia's page as to the latter finds that the majority of its most notable alumni are beauty pageant contestants.

As to the tripartite solution, I would have to agree. The postwar plan of President Bush was executed perfectly.