**Written by Doug Powers Sheriff Joe Biden may only half-heartedly believe what he’s saying here. It’s just that word around Capitol Hill is that if you help convince Nancy that her reunion with the Speaker’s gavel is imminent, there’s a good chance she’ll throw a pretty good stock tip your way, so what the heck. From The Hill : House Democrats will win the House in November, swinging the gavel back into the hands of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Vice President Joe Biden predicted Friday. “Nancy, I think, is not going to be remembered just for being the first woman Speaker,” Biden said, “she’s going to remembered for being the second woman speaker.” Addressing House Democrats gathered on the Eastern Shore for their annual retreat, Biden said the combination of GOP obstructionism and a strengthening economy will propel the Democrats back into control of the lower chamber after just two years in the minority. “It’s becoming absolutely clear the decisions that we made … are actually working,” Biden said, speaking softly because he said he’s battling a cold. It’s sort of a “bad thought, good thought” situation. The bad is that Joe Biden is predicting the Dems will control the House after the election. The good is that in 2010 he predicted the same thing , and, well, you know how that turned out. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Biden Prediction: Dems Will Retake House
**Written by Doug Powers As you’ll discover from the video below of Jason Mattera’s appearance with CNN’s John King, chivalry is not dead. Sheriff Biden, the Beltway Bubble Boy , has lodged a formal complaint with the Capitol Hill Press Police’s Foot-in-Mouth Prevention Division over the Human Events reporter’s “ambush” question regarding Joe’s “raped and murdered” comment . CNN’s John King didn’t like Mattera’s tactics one bit, and was this close to snapping him with an old pair of suspenders Larry King left under the desk. Video by way of Freedom’s Lighthouse . For a minute here I was fairly certain King was going to throw down a white glove and challenge Mattera to a duel: Thinking out loud: Joe Biden is telling Americans if Congress doesn’t pass another tax & spend bill their chances of getting raped, robbed and murdered will go up and Mattera’s misrepresentative? **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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CNN’s John King Defends Joe Biden’s Honor; Demands Satisfaction
**Written by Doug Powers Alternate headline: Job experts optimistic “fact checker” will remain fastest growing career field in US When you go to the polls in five years, you might have a chance to vote for that four-letter word: BIDEN — unless of course you want robberies, rapes and murders to go up . Sheriff Joe was asked if he’d be open to running in 2016, and he didn’t rule it out : “I’ll make up my mind on that later,” Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with CNN’s Candy Crowley. “I’m in one of the, probably the best shape I’ve been in in my life” I’m doing pretty well. I’m enjoying what I’m doing, and as long as I do, I’m going to continue to do it,” he said. Biden’s final decision will probably depend on which Republican incumbent he’d be running against in 2016. Click the pic to roll tape: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Good News: Biden Doesn’t Rule Out Running for President in 2016
**Written by Doug Powers White House Spokesman Jay Carney today didn’t stray from Joe Biden’s side over his latest round of fear mongering . Transcript from Real Clear Politics : “I think it would be hard to find anyone that doesn’t agree,” White House press secretary Carney said about Joe Biden’s remark that rapes will increase if Congress does not pass Obama’s latest stimulus bill. Carney was asked about Vice President Joe Biden saying rapes and murders will rise if the president’s jobs bill is not passed. “I think everyone will agree with the equation that fewer police officers on the street has a direct effect on the crime rate. We saw this in the 1990′s. I do know that any lawmaker up on Capitol Hill will contest that simple fact or any American who makes that assessment in their local communities. Would you want fewer or more law enforcement officers on the job? Do you think that having more officers on the job would have a positive impact on crime? That is the point that the President absolutely shares,” Carney said. Maybe at some point a reporter will ask Carney why there are fewer police on the streets today and they’re seeking billions more when the sales pitch for the original stimulus was that billions of those dollars would put more cops on the job . Biden’s gotten so unhinged that the RNC is using him in an ad , so it’s probably good that President Obama isn’t reeling him back in. Plus, it’s entertaining for the rest of us. Click the pic to roll tape: ***** **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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White House Backs Up Biden on ‘Rape and Murder’ Claims
Here’s how you know your argument may be flawed: When the opposition party starts putting the spotlight on it, as the RNC is doing with Joe Biden’s “rape and murder will rise unless we pass Obama’s jobs bill” argument: Keep reading this post . . .
**Written by Doug Powers Logo credit: Sloane Buried within an ABC News story about today’s release of hundreds of Solyndra-related emails is a reminder of what White House Spokesman Jay Carney said at a press conference late last month after being asked about the involvement of a Department of Energy consultant and Obama fundraiser named Steve Spinner: Carney replied: “It’s my understanding, at least with regard to the gentleman you just mentioned [Steve Spinner], that he had no connection to overseeing the loan guarantee program.” After hearing Carney say that, your first instinct might have been to think, “Hey, Spinner must have a connection to overseeing the loan guarantee program!” Now back to the top of the story for confirmation that you should always trust your instincts: An elite Obama fundraiser hired to help oversee the administration’s energy loan program pushed and prodded career Department of Energy officials to move faster in approving a loan guarantee for Solyndra, even as his wife’s law firm was representing the California solar company, according to internal emails made public late Friday. “How hard is this? What is he waiting for?” wrote Steven J. Spinner, a high-tech consultant and energy investor who raised at least $500,000 for the candidate before being appointed to a key job helping oversee the energy loan guarantee program. “I have OVP [the Office of the Vice President] and WH [the White House] breathing down my neck on this.” Many of the emails were written just days after Spinner accepted a three-page ethics agreement in which he pledged he would “not participate in any discussion regarding any application involving [his wife's law firm] Wilson [Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati].” Prediction: At the next press conference Carney will claim that when he said Spinner had “no connection” to the loan program, he meant literally — as in that Spinner wasn’t duct taped, chained, super glued or stapled to it in any way. If the “breathing down my neck on this” Spinner references from the White House and Veep’s office was in email or memo form, we might learn about it on a subsequent Friday afternoon document drop & dash. Also, it isn’t difficult to spot a party planner who has access to piles of other people’s money : Many of the emails surround his efforts to coordinate plans for either President Obama or Vice President Biden to announce it as the administration’s first loan approval — one that he repeatedly notes will create clean energy jobs. It is Spinner, for instance, who pushes for a “big event” with “golden shovels, bulldozers, hardhats, etc.” It wasn’t just a shovel ready job — it was a golden shovel ready job. At this point though, the whistling robots were just a gleam in his eye. Politico has a story today about the “*#~@ show,” and there’s lots more Solyndra and Solyndra-related background here . **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Friday Solyndra Email Dump
Vice President Joe Biden offers Republicans a pep talk: It’s not a united Republican party . . . Absolutely, it’s strong enough to beat both of us. No matter what the circumstance, at the end of the day, the American people right now, many of them are in trouble, an even larger percentage have stagnant wages and a significant majority of the American people believe the country’s not moving in the right direction. That is never a good place to be going into a reelection . . . They’re going to have to choose whether or not the path we have set the country on is the path we should go or whether we should go back to liberating the economy in the terms of . . .[ voice trails off ] Keep reading this post . . .
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Joe Biden: ‘The American People Right Now, Many of Them Are in Trouble.’
**Written by Doug Powers First the bad news: I lost a bet because Biden doesn’t think that Van Jones is a moving company. Now the good news: Joe’s being Joe again. From the Schnitt Show by way of JWF : Later in his response in talking about the frustration seen in the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street Group, Biden said “you have on the one end Van Jones’ guys, whoever he is, talking about Wall Street.” Jack Harris and Tedd Webb stopped him to tell him he had previously been “Green Czar” in the administration. The VP responded, “Oh is that… alright” Come on, Joe — Van Jones — former “Green Jobs Czar” in the same administration you’re in. Ring any bells? He spoke at the first meeting of the Middle Class Task Force you headed up and received a standing ovation from you and your colleagues. Still not familiar? At that meeting, he was this guy , with a name card in front of him that had “Van Jones” written on it. No? Still nothing? Don’t worry, Sheriff Biden has been reserving every ounce his situational awareness in order to tightly monitor stimulus spending. **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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Joe Biden: Van Jones? Who’s He?
