Below The Beltway

Despite what seem to be some fairly clear Constitutional objections, there’s is a very good chance that the House of Representatives will be able to get away with the strategy of deeming the Senate bill as having been passed without actually voting on it.
Here’s why.
Ed Morrissey points to Public Citizen v US District Court for [...]

This would be hilarious but for the fact that this man is one heartbeat away from having his finger on the button of America’s nuclear arsenal:

Vice-President Biden is finding that he’s isn’t playing well in Peoria:
Vice President Joe Biden’s favorable rating has fallen to 42 percent in a new Gallup poll, down from a high of 59 percent just after last year’s election. Biden’s unfavorable rating in the new poll is 40 percent, up from 29 percent last November. (Eighteen [...]

Don’t you think that Barack Obama sometimes wishes he had been able to lock Joe Biden in Dick Cheney’s undisclosed location for the next three years ?

Our 47th Vice-President lays it on the line:
On a conference call today, Vice President Biden told 30 of the nation’s governors that if the Recovery Act fails, he’s “dead.” Biden was providing an update to the governors (and if they couldn’t make it, their Lt. Governor or senior staffer) on the Recovery Act and [...]

Vice President Biden was inducted into the Little League Hall of Fame this weekend:
Karl Ravich of ABC Sports and ESPN said that Biden joked during his acceptance speech that he would rather have won the little league world championship than be vice president.
We wish you had too, Joe.

According to his aides, it’s a possibility:
Biden’s ambitions go beyond serving as an influential vice president. He doesn’t necessarily believe his political career has peaked.
Aides said he might go for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016. He would be 74 upon taking office, but his staff insists that’s not too old.
“He’s incredibly fit, vigorous man [...]

Earlier this week, Vice-President Biden spoke to the Wall Street Journal about his trip to Eastern Europe and had the following to say:
On domestic difficulties that are affecting Russian foreign policy:
“The reality is the Russians are where they are. They have a shrinking population base, they have a withering economy, they have a banking sector [...]

Apparently, our Vice-President has an appreciation for Eastern European women:
“I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something and didn’t say he discovered the most beautiful women in the world. That’s my observation.”-Vice President Joe Biden
You know, just this one time, Biden may have a point:

I’m [...]