I agree with the above statement but if he(Biden) touch me like that, Biden would find himself on the ground in a Chin-na Lock and unable to breath from a Dim Mak hit. I'm surprised it hasn't happen to him yet.

And the plate on front of her says Hon H R Clinton. Honorable? Gag!

Maybe Cheney will invite him moose hunting.

Have a look at a recent pic of her: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalre...
What shows is her jowls. Or all those extra chins, or both.

I doubt he could abolish the FR from the chairman's seat. But he could order an audit and publish the result!

I do make it about the policies. His big three priorities in office haven't changed: Enact socialized medicine (or as close to it as he can get past Congress); enact cap-and-trade to destroy cheap energy; and enact card check to re-enable extortion rackets run by union thugs.

I defy you to come up with a pro-liberty defense of any one of the three.

About the only important pro-freedom positions he's asserted were the intentions to close Gitmo, stop torturing prisoners, and end the war in Afghanistan. He could quite legitimately do the last two of those things, and arguably close Gitmo as well, by executive order, but they haven't happened -- so I doubt he meant it when he said he'd do them.

The Left only hate her because she is a strong, successful *woman* who doesn't buy their agenda. It's the same so-called reasoning that makes them call black conservatives "Uncle Toms"; I guess there isn't an equivalent phrase they can use to smear women like her yet.

Of course Biden trips over his tongue 10 or 20 times as often as Palin, but the media are very obviously selective in their hearing.

Absolute agreement with you on those points!

I'm just saying it's easy to start spending taxpayer money and hard to stop. It's easier for a good well-meaning person to lobby for a piece of the pie than to get govt reduced. So govt spending is self-perpetuating, hard to reduce even if most people agree it should be reduced.

Yes, CG, and that can be applied to any and all "worthy" programs.
Now, are you arguing for maintaining or expanding any and all such programs for the mysterious "common good" or suggesting, as I am to my 14-year-old grandson, looking at measuring the success rates versus costs?

Yes, that's harder (or impossible) to do with pure research into difficult challenges like serious diseases, but even looking at the track records of such efforts might be worthwhile.

After all, the original charter of the DOE was to lead the US into energy independence. How should we grade their 'success'?

"I asked him how the government 'pays' for all the things it does and led him down the path to the realization that The Government Does Not PAY For Anything, but 'merely' collects taxes, skims off part of them for bureaucratic overhead, and then passes the money on to whomever convinces them they 'deserve it."
The next step is for him to imagine how much time and effort he would logically spend to maintain some program that pays him $100,000. It could be a program for a good cause like defense or cancer research. It's paid for by 100 million families paying an average of 10 cents apiece. How much effort will they put into the program? Multiply that times ten million. Now most people are have some customers getting money from the gov't, but they have to turn over a quarter of what they earn in taxes. Maybe they can lobby the gov't and get a modest tax decrease. It's easier, though, to get local gov't orgs that help people get federal grants to suggest your business, as a local provider, as a place to spend the grant money-- i.e. it's far easier to find a ways to get gov't money than to get them to reduce gov't.

I'm not sure how to explain that to a 14 y/o,but he's on his way.

The fact is, it was in public, open to the interpretation and scrutiny of all who attended. He was behaving in a manner clearly inappropriate to the circumstances.

She showed her superior tact in NOT reacting, thus diffusing what could potentially have been a very ugly, tense situation. I'm sure the Bidens are not on any future guest lists at Carter household.

It also shows that there is a clear and glaring disconnect in the mind of the VP regarding what is socially acceptable. He is a public figure, the man who would be expected to lead this country, (frightening fact), if something should happen to befall BO. His clear lack of judgement does not bode well for his ability to govern.

His mind appears, by all accounts, to be addled...
I'd run away no matter what he was, or wasn't, wearing... Ick factor is quite high...

Ugh. No one ran him off the road? Dang!

Creepshow was up in my neck of the woods today, Concord & Manchester.

Biden... If I ever saw him in a trench coat I would turn and run away! Something is not quite right with Uncle Joe...

I first read AS at age 25 or so... better late than never! I just hope to give his 'consciousness raising' a head start!

+1 and he will be a very lucky boy learning that lesson early

Difference of opinion. I think she is smart enough. I think the Media spent a lot of effort to convince everyone that she isn't smart. They also spent a lot of effort to convince everyone that Obama is smart, and I think he is not.

:))))))))... I learned to drive in a 1954 Chevy BelAir and I think I've only owned one 'junky car' that I can recall... I've been very fortunate in lots of ways.

I stopped defending Big Tobacco, if, in fact I ever defended it, when spokesperson Arthur Godfrey had one lung removed due to lung cancer. His TV program had been sponsored for years by tobacco.

I have no magic formulae or solutions for 'what to do,' but one hobby I have is to, as often as possible, ask people questions that might make them wonder where they got their beliefs from or who or how or what led them to their 'conclusions' on current Problem Topics.

I prefer doing this with bright people, and one of my favorites right now is my step-son's elder son. The boy turned 14 last year and is extremely intelligent AND curious, and he likes to ask my opinion on a WIDE variety of subjects.

Fortunately, I've been interested IN a WIDE variety of subjects during my life so we cover some pretty wide-ranging issues when he asks 'one of his questions.'

Recently, I've been 'poisoning his mind' by using the Socratic Method of Questioning to investigate whatever issue he's curious about. His parents lean extremely left, relative to me, so I enjoy tremendously asking him questions that his folks might have trouble answering :) .

One night, after a pizza dinner out with his family and my wife, we got to talking about taxes and government, and he made the grave mistake of saying something he probably picked up from his mom or dad... "the Government pays for...."

I asked him how the government 'pays' for all the things it does and led him down the path to the realization that The Government Does Not PAY For Anything, but 'merely' collects taxes, skims off part of them for bureaucratic overhead, and then passes the money on to whomever convinces them they 'deserve it.'

Now, once he gets THAT meme in his head, and I think he did, that may become the filter through which any similar ideas must pass before he gets sucked down some ideological rat hole.

If that is successful, I will be a very happy camper.

Thanks, CG.. I am in violent agreement with virtually everything you said!

I tend to try to hold the mirror up at a slightly different angle, though... When someone (nearly anyone) tried to rip a new one for the Republicans, Democrats or whomever, I try to point out that, at least in my never-so-humble opinion, There Is No Shortage of Mistakes and Stupid Things Done By Members of BOTH (or all) Sides, and to take a position that looks like "Our side is Right and Your Side is The Devil Incarnate" essentially immediately loses all of my respect for the speaker/writer.

Both (all) side make mistakes and have warts they hate to admit to and without that self-conscious world view, such 'debates' will continue forever and end up mostly as name-calling with no net positive outcomes or results.

That makes me very discouraged about the alleged future of our species. But late this year I turn 70, so I expect that I may not live to see the tide overwhelm us OR reverse and roll back out to sea.

Good Luck to you and all of us.

It could be. Maybe people, or at least some people, at that level bring an attitude.

She was basing it on her experience defending big tobacco in the 90s, when we both were smart young people who didn't know each other driving very similar junky cars and learning about law/electronics in DC/San Jose (respectively).

Now we're back home, and we know gov't is problem, but we don't know what to do about it.

Gas-Bag-Biden: a total sick-0 physic=0