Posts Tagged ‘Joe Biden’
October 20th, 2011 by John Feehery
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said yesterday: “It’s very clear that private sector jobs have been doing just fine, it’s the public sector jobs where we’ve lost huge numbers, and that’s what this legislation is all about.”
He was talking about his plan to give more money to states so they can give more money to teachers unions and public safety unions.
Joe Biden breathlessly said yesterday that if you didn’t support this plan, the chances that you might get raped (if you are a woman) or held up at gunpoint (if you run a 7-11) will go up dramatically. He said yesterday in Washington:
“In many cities, the result has been — and it’s not unique — murder rates are up, robberies are up, rapes are up and folks, there’s a simple reason for it. There’s been a perfect storm out there — these God-awful Ponzi schemes that the last outfit allowed Wall Street to engage in resulted in this gigantic collapse of the financial industry. Housing — the bottom fell out. Foreclosures increased, particularly in poorer neighborhoods. Abandoned homes are created. Drug lords move in. Arson increases. Budgets fall because the property taxes fall. Cops and firefighters get laid off. Response times increase from five minutes to 30 minutes, and people die, and people’s homes burn to the ground.” Read more...
Tags: Bloomberg New, Economy, Federal employees, foreclosures, gigantic collapse of the financial industry, Joe Biden, Kevin Zeese, Politics, Ponzi schemes, President’s jobs plan, private sector, private sector jobs, Prosperity Agenda, public safety unions, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Silicon Valley, teachers unions, Wall Street
Posted in Bad Decisions, Economy, Financial Crisis, Government, Media, Politics, Promises, Unemployment, bad news, corruption, election, housing crisis, poverty, spending, taxes | 1 Comment »
September 14th, 2011 by John Feehery
Presenting caption contest week two. The winning caption will be selected next Tuesday and its author awarded their very own Feehery Theory mug.
Caption this photo of Joe Biden!
Post your captions as comments below to be entered to win.
Tags: Caption Contest, Joe Biden
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June 24th, 2011 by John Feehery
Eric Cantor pulled out of the Vice President’s debt talks the other day, convinced that the Democrats were leading him down a politically unsustainable path.
Republicans don’t think revenues are a problem (a debatable proposition), and the House Majority Leader certainly doesn’t want to be tagged as a tax increaser. That is bad politics for the GOP and dangerous politics for him.
It has been openly acknowledged that Mr. Biden and Mr. Cantor were only going to be able to run this race to a certain point, and at some point, they were going to pass the baton to the President and the Speaker.
I still believe that it makes far more sense to have the Senate go first. But I look at this only from the position of trying to get it done, not trying to accomplish some ideological victory.
Debt limit votes are to be endured. They are not venues to declare victory or defeat.
The Argentinians have an interesting story to tell when it comes to debt limits. About a decade ago, they defaulted on their debt, causing turmoil in the financial markets and misery within their borders. Read more...
Tags: America, American policy makers, Argentina, Argentinians, Barack Obama, Chinese, Congress, Conservatives, Democrats, Don’t Cry for Me, Economy, Eric Cantor, Evita Peron, Government, International Bond Markets, Joe Biden, Politics, President Obama, Presidential election, Republican, Republicans, US foriegn relations
Posted in Bad Decisions, Economy, Financial Crisis, Foreign Relations, GOP, Government, History, Politics, Theory, election, national security, spending | 1 Comment »
June 16th, 2011 by John Feehery
First, there was the beer summit. Now there is the golf summit.
Where other Presidents had summits to negotiate nuclear arms deals or budget compromises, Barack Obama has chosen to meet his opponents in a more relaxed setting.
The beer summit, for those who don’t recall, was an effort to bring a white cop and a black professor together, after they had a major misunderstanding that led to racial indigestion. Obama made the situation worse by calling the cop stupid, and then he had to calm the waters over a few choice beverages.
The President likes to include Joe Biden in all of his summits, so he has invited the Vice President over to play golf with him and with Speaker of the House John Boehner at an undisclosed location (probably Andrews Air Force base).
Boehner has decided to bring John Kasich, the Ohio Governor, to play with him. My guess is that Kasich and Biden will do all the talking, while Boehner and Obama will do all the smoking. Read more...
Tags: America, Andrews Air Force base, Barack Obama, beer summit, Bill Clinton, Bob Michel, Bull Moose Party, Democrats, Don Van Natta, election, golf summit, Joe Biden, John Boehner, John Kasich, Lyndon Johnson, Republicans, Richard Nixon, Tip O’Neill, William Howard Taft
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July 19th, 2010 by John Feehery
Jake Tapper Interviews Joe Biden on This Week / Photo via ABCnews.com
Sometimes, I just want to strangle Ronald McDonald.
From approximately 2 in the afternoon yesterday until about 8 o’clock yesterday night, my four-year old son had one message and one message only. He wanted to go to Old McDonald.
Old McDonald – as he likes to call the place where you get the Big Mac – serves Happy Meals, and apparently, the Happy Meal is the only thing that makes my son happy these days.
So, for every fifteen minutes, at various pitches and voice levels, my son requested that we go to Old McDonald’s and get a Happy Meal.
On one level, the discourse between my son and me was extraordinarily frustrating. I knew that he wasn’t going to get a Happy Meal yesterday, and he knew he wasn’t going to get a Happy Meal yesterday, but that didn’t stop him from requesting it on a fairly regular basis.
But on the other level, the message discipline that came from little Jack was very impressive. He stuck to his message, no matter how ineffective it turned out to be. Read more...
Tags: Bush administration, Democrats, economic stimulus, Jake Tapper, Joe Biden, McDonald's, Recovery Summer, Republicans, This Week
Posted in GOP, Government, Politics, spending | No Comments »
June 23rd, 2010 by John Feehery
The Rolling Stone magazine was iconic a couple of decades ago.
It was a great place to read about cultural trends, about pot, about rock and roll, and every once in while, it had an interesting political story.
Rolling Stone is now going all retro on us. It suddenly has a story that might have a major league impact on our foreign policy, on how our President is perceived overseas, and more importantly, how our enemies view us.
In this week’s version, as I am sure you have all heard, Rolling Stone does a profile of the general who is in charge of our wartime strategy in Afghanistan.
The story, itself, is of limited significance. It talks about how Stanley McChrystal was a whiz kid when he was growing up, how he was a badass when he was at West Point, how he kicked ass as a Ranger when he got out of West Point, and how he willingly took over the battle of Afghanistan with a controversial counter insurgency strategy that has ruffled the feathers of some notable politicians, like Joe Biden.
But the buzz that has come from the story may sack McChrystal and it may complicate our efforts to win in Afghanistan. Read more...
Tags: afghanistan, Barack Obama, Defense Secretary, Jimmy Carter, Joe Biden, Playboy, Robert Gibbs, Rolling Stone, Stanley McChrystal, White House
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March 6th, 2010 by John Feehery
The resignation of Congressman Eric Massa complicates the life of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And her life is already pretty complicated.
Of course, it means one less vote for a health care bill that Congressional Democrats are trying to get through a reluctant House.
And one vote is a big deal, because it looks like pro-life Democrats aren’t going to swallow what the Senate passed late last year.
The Democrats have constructed a complicated scheme to pass health care, overly complicated in my view. The House has to somehow pass a Senate bill that includes a huge new tax increase on labor union health plans and abortion language that is still unacceptable to Bart Stupak.
Then they are going to pass another follow-on bill that will somehow reverse that labor union tax with so-called “reconciliation” instructions that the Senate then will theoretically take up and pass with 51 votes.
But first, the Senate has to hope that the Senate parliamentarian decides that whatever the House passes somehow fits in with the Senate rules, not a certain proposition.
And if the Parliamentarian decides that it is not kosher, well, then, Joe Biden has to step in and create a new precedent that will give the Republicans ample cause to shut the Upper Chamber down for a while. Read more...
Tags: abortion, Bart Stupak, Bill Clinton, Charlie Rangel, Congress, Democrats, Denny Hastert, Eric Massa, health care, House, Joe Biden, Mark Foley, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, Senate, Tom DeLay, Ways and Means Committee
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