Joe Biden Signals Democats Are in Trouble ’10
Wonder why Vice President Joe Biden sounded so desperate at a fundraiser for outgoing Democratic Congressman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) in Greenville, Delaware, fearing what might happen were Democrats to “lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts”: ”If they take them back, this is the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do.”
Given how much you guys have been spending and regulating, Joe, that’s the idea. It’s interesting that Biden held the fundraiser for Mrs. Giffords in Delaware. Don’t think he’d find such a ready welcome in Arizona.
At the fundraiser, the gaffe-prone Vice President repeated the Democrats’ dishonest talking point that Republicans are bereft of solutions to our nation’s problems: ”Biden said Republicans are ‘moribund in terms of ideas’ and had not offered reasonable alternatives to the nation’s problems.”
Maybe the reason he fears Democrat losses and ignores those ideas is because he’s beginning to recognize the American people aren’t warming to Democratic plans and would likely prefer Republican alternatives if they were made aware of them. They just plain don’t like the Democrats’ big-government approach.
But, Joe seems to think that if they can just forestall Republican advances in next fall’s elections, then Democrats can really get things done:
“If they take [those seats] back, this is the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do,” Biden said, referring to President Obama. “This is their one shot. If they don’t break the back of our effort in this upcoming election, you’re going to see the things we said we’re for, happen.”
Really, Joe, so we need another election for Democrats to finally be able to make things happen? As Jules Crittenden offers, “there’s no indication they can make anything happen even with House and Senate majorities” (to which I add) they’ve got. They can’t get much accomplished any more because their own caucus is beginning to balk at the price tag and the public reaction.
People don’t want what the Democrats are trying to sell. And that’s why Democrats can’t come up with a health care plan around which all their members can unite. And why Joe Biden fears his party’s losses in next fall’s elections.
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Fundraiser? Outgoing? Why does an outgoing congress critter need a fundraiser?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 22, 2009 @ 4:34 am - September 22, 2009
I call her outgoing because I’m an optimistic guy.
Comment by B. Daniel Blatt — September 22, 2009 @ 4:35 am - September 22, 2009
And there’s your campaign slogan for ’10.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 22, 2009 @ 4:42 am - September 22, 2009
“Barack and I..” is enough to rally Republicans.
Comment by mike191 — September 22, 2009 @ 7:07 am - September 22, 2009
Jeez, Joe Biden has just had his “Oral Roberts Moment.”
“Friends, if you don’t ante up and stop the eeeeeeevillll Rethuglicans, God will call Obama and me home. Won’t you pleeeeeeeeeeeeasssssse helllllllp?
Comment by MarkJ — September 22, 2009 @ 7:58 am - September 22, 2009
He knows when those seats go and they will be going back Republican that it is a REJECTION of liberalism. The problem for Americans is those who lived during Carter FORGOT and those who were born after had no clue because schools don’t teach how HORRIBLE that time was. The beauty of this election is that everyone alive at this moment is now aware of the nastiness of liberal ideology and they will be going to the voting booth to REJECT IT!
Comment by JadedByPolitcs — September 22, 2009 @ 8:31 am - September 22, 2009
Well, that might persuade even me to vote Republican this time around!
Comment by Sonicfrog — September 22, 2009 @ 1:35 pm - September 22, 2009
Is this a “below average intelligence” site? Because all I heard at VP Biden’s speech is a good solid speech telling Democrats to get up off their arses and get politically active and vote. No more…no less.
Are you saying that if a Republican stumped the same speech, you would react in kind?
Perhaps this site is not accustomed to politcal rallying?
Interesting…
Comment by Principia — September 22, 2009 @ 5:03 pm - September 22, 2009
Gaby was able to get away with her say one thing in AZ do another routine in 08. She WON’T be able to do that in 10. Its amazing how the local glittering jewels of liberal bloviation think she is just the BEST possible representative for Southern Arizona. When acutally confronted with facts about what her constituents actually WANT she invariably trims her sails to placate the loudest critics. She’s now been caught too many times astride the line. As some from Texas might say…. Yellow stripes and Dead Armadillos.
Comment by Bill in Tucson — September 22, 2009 @ 5:19 pm - September 22, 2009
Because all I heard at VP Biden’s speech is a good solid speech telling Democrats to get up off their arses and get politically active and vote. No more…no less.
Of course that’s all you heard. Intellectual lightweights like yourself who obey and support Barack Obama’s every movement aren’t able to analyze these things by yourself; you rely on the Obama Party to tell you what to do and think. That’s why you consider anyone who dares to do anything other than repeat Obama talking points to be of lesser intelligence than you are.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — September 22, 2009 @ 5:48 pm - September 22, 2009
I live in Giffords’ district. She is a liar and backstabber. Interesting how her fundraiser had to be held in Delaware – a sure sign she is not able to get the funds in the Tucson area she desperately needs!
We’re fed up in Tucson and the townhalls reflected such. We also showed up at her office on two occassions (500 at the first event; over 1,000 at the second). Both times we outnumbered her supporters. There were about 60 of her supporters at the first event. None of them showed up at the second.
The days (daze) of Nancy Pelosi’s mini-me are numbered in congress!
Comment by Artgal — September 22, 2009 @ 6:12 pm - September 22, 2009
God will call Obama and me home. Won’t you pleeeeeeeeeeeeasssssse helllllllp?
If only…
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 22, 2009 @ 8:19 pm - September 22, 2009
Perhaps this site is not accustomed to politcal rallying?
Actually, we’re not accustomed to such brazen stupidity. Biden was rejected for the presidency TWICE, but he’s good enough for second fiddle? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???
Comment by ThatGayConservative — September 22, 2009 @ 8:23 pm - September 22, 2009
I like that whiskey tango foxtrot, creative.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — September 22, 2009 @ 8:40 pm - September 22, 2009
Artgal, it was those demonstrations that got her to hold the town halls. She was doing those Congress in Your Corner, One on One thingees, and said that she didn’t like the “tone” of the Town Halls across the country, and after the One on One in Douglas she was going to do all future events on the phone. I thank you in Tucson for the demonstrations, and also the one in Sierra Vista. Trent Humphries and Robert Mayer are doing a bang up job with the TucsonTeaParty.org I’m down in Bisbee, but have driven up to Tucson for two of the events so far, and will again for future ones.
Comment by Maggie45 — September 22, 2009 @ 9:29 pm - September 22, 2009
Hmm, you sound a little desperate, Joe. But your off the cuff-unscripted gaffs-usually have a ring of truth to them. I’m not particulary enthraled with the Republican party, but given a choice . . . .
Comment by shigley — September 22, 2009 @ 11:52 pm - September 22, 2009
[...] Far be it from me to argue with probably the dumbest Vice President in the history of the United States, but the idiot Joe Biden might have actually done something politicians (from either side) never do, and that is speak the truth. Biden fearing what many have predicted will take place in 2010 told those attending a fundraiser for Democrat Gabrielle Giffords, who represents a district that John McCain won last year (From The Hill): [...]
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