Today’s punditry by, the NYT’s Helene Cooper, is ostensibly about Joe Biden’s changing role in the Obama White House, but the subtext is really about how utterly powerless everyone in Washington is who is not a Republican Senator.
“If he’s going to try to get anything done in a partisan divide, and a divided Senate, Biden is a tremendous asset because he knows the players, the institution, and he has credibility,” said John Podesta, the chief executive of the Center for American Progress, who led Mr. Obama’s transition team after the 2008 election.
Mr. Podesta said Mr. Biden could succeed where Mr. Obama’s White House advisers could not because there was a perception that the vice president, while close to the president, was not too close.
“One of the values that Biden brings is that he is sort of an outsider,” Mr. Podesta said, adding that the view of the vice president as a player distinct from the senior West Wing staff is “an asset that the president can utilize.”
See? Everything is going to be okay now because Joe Biden knows people.
Shessus….this Administration is a CLUSTERFUCK!