Let’s face it – Joe Biden often speaks before thinking. That can lead to some embarrassing moments. I think Joe Biden is actually a great partner for Barack Obama’s cool, intellectual style. Biden really hit it out of the park yesterday:
Biden jokingly said that GOP protests about the need for a balanced budget made him want to strangle them, which the vice president quickly clarified was a figure of speech.
“If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them,” Biden said at a fundraiser in Minnesota, according to a pool report. “To the press, that’s a figure of speech.”
President Obama and other members of the administration have ridiculed Republicans as trying to have it both ways on budget issues. For all the GOP’s complaints about the ballooning deficit over the past 20 months, Democrats charge, their plan to extend all tax cuts for top earners would add hundreds of billions to the debt.
“These guys have absolutely no credibility, no credibility on debt,” Biden said.
There is absolutely zero evidence that the GOP cares about debt. Debt is only a GOP issue when a Democratic president is trying to clean up their mess.