Biden: Fractured GOP Is the Problem

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/10/biden-fractured-gop-is-the-problem/246271/

Vice President Joe Biden said the administration will take its jobs bill directly to the American people to put pressure on Republican members of Congress to pass it.
Despite the conventional wisdom that the bill is dead on arrival, Biden said, "What happens that gets it passed is we have to go to the people. That's what the president says and it's been my point of view for a while now. We should go to the people and we should be asking every one of those congresspersons, 'What are you against?'"

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Interviewed by David Gregory at Thursday's Washington Ideas Forum, Biden said the main obstacle to moving the economy forward is a fractured Republican Party that its congressional leadership is unable to control.

"I think does have a partner in the bulk of the leadership but they are seriously hamstsrung," Biden said. During the debt-ceiling negotiations, he said, "we had a much bigger proposal I was personally negotiating with them as to how to deal with the debt crisis and they could not sell it."

Biden said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor would deny this account because he was obligated to. "This is just Joe Biden's impression, but I truly believe if just Eric Cantor, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and John Boehner were allowed to settle the deal in the room we would have had a deal."
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Videos at the link.

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1. Joe's from the day when they actually worked together, I can't

imagine how horrified he is to see this current situation.

I remember when Joe Wilson shouted out "Liar!" -- The look on Biden's face. He looked as though he just saw his child take a shot of heroin or something -- heartbroken is the word that came to mind. :(

Fractured GOP is right.

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2. He came to speak at the Univ. of Delaware in September

and he explained quite a bit about his feelings on bipartisanship. I attended his talk and found that it maybe cleared up some of the Obama administration viewpoint on bipartisanship, especially if he's helping to lead the way. I was looking to see if they had a video link on their site. it was a good speech and one I definitely wanted a copy of if I could find a transcript. I didn't see a transcript or a video yet, but they may have one on their iTunes site. I don't have iTunes on my machine at work, so can't check it out. If you want to, go to http://www.udel.edu/itunesu/ and choose 'public access'. If they have one up, it should be there. I'll have to check it from my home computer tonight.

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3. I'd love to hear/read it. When Joe was still in the running,

I posted a video of a little speech he gave about medical care for Veterans. Small crowd, but Joe was so PASSIONATE. No matter how many times I saw it I'd get chills and a little teary. When he became part of the Obama team his solo vids were pulled, sadly.

The thing about Joe, is that he answers as a person, you feel respected, not being played. While Hillary and Obama were saying "Oh No! I'm not interested in being POTUS, I LOVE my job as Senator" Joe was telling the truth. I'm thinking about running. I'll let you know.

I remember he "broke" it on Bill Maher. Maher said, kind of coyly, "and there's talk you may be throwing your hat in the ring", expecting Joe to give the usual non-answer, but Joe said "yeah, I'm gonna do it." Maher was stunned!

I love Joe, can you tell? :7?