Joe Biden's Excellent Tour

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Jun 11 2009, 4:00 pm by Matthew Cooper

Joe Biden was on the road today. Along with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and others, he was touting the benefits of the stimulus bill, this time at a bridge repair in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He's also off to Kansas this week as well as Michigan.

You can always make the case for presidential barnstorming to promote upcoming legislation. President Obama is in Wisconsin today promoting health care reform. There's something a little tacky, I think, about taking victory lap after victory lap for something that you've already passed. Yes, the getting-America-moving tour probably has some psychic benefit for the economy and I'm all for that. But at a certain point a tour like this seems a little silly.

That said, is there really much debate about the stimulus anymore?

Comments (3)

zapperz June 11, 2009 4:38 PM

Biden is an idiot, my god if obama gets shot, look what we would be dealing with, a biden and peolsi in white house.. i would rather have mickey mouse and donald duck, at least they are not pitiful

zapperz June 11, 2009 4:40 PM

wasnt it joe that called the latest tunnel for trains, a great way day for auto's? or something to that affect..now joe, can you give me the intenert number so i can call you stupid to your face

Bud Man June 11, 2009 8:08 PM

zapperz,

If you're going to call someone an idiot, get your spelling and grammar right, and get your facts straight. (Especially someone who, for better or worse, has accomplished more than you or I.) Otherwise you look like the idiot.

Pelosi is next in line but she would not move into the White House unless Biden were dead too and she became President. If just Obama died, a new VP would be appointed, presumably fairly quickly.

Biden is good as VP. He went and told the Lebanese they had to vote for the pro-American party or face consequences - and they voted as he suggested. He was high-profile enough for the message to be heard in Lebanon but low-profile enough that it didn't get banner headlines around the world. And he's said to be quite involved in daily White House decision-making.

I do have to agree that I find the thought of him as President a bit scary. Not like Palin though. I'd actually prefer Pelosi.

Bud Man