Great news: Obama names Biden stimulus czar
posted at 1:20 pm on February 23, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Skip ahead to 4:05. Just what a jittery America needs to restore confidence in the feds’ bailout management. Worried that Greasy Joe suddenly has an $800 billion line of credit and zero executive experience? Don’t be. The Obama business brain trust is right there behind him, willing and able to lend a hand.
If you want to congratulate The One on his master stroke, the Recovery.gov website is now accepting reader feedback. Exit question: Which is most reassuring — Biden heading up the stimulus, Panetta learning intel on the fly as head of the CIA, or our new energy secretary needing to be told that he’s responsible for, um, energy?
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Only another reason to be scared.
He doesn’t even know the difference between a donkey & a mule?!
Mule= offspring of a male donkey & a horse
Donkey= an ass.
Donkey does not = mule.
Moron does = Biden.
Badger40 on February 23, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Biden? Isn’t he the guy who wanted to cut the Iranians a check for a billion dollars so they wouldn’t be mean to us….or something? We’re handing him the purse strings controlling almost a trillion dollars? What a good idea.
Oldnuke on February 23, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Biden’s correct foreign policy predictions and ideas over the last 30 years or whatever have given him confidence of this role.
What?
Oh sh1t.
lorien1973 on February 23, 2009 at 1:55 PM
30% chance stimulus package will fail99% chance stimulus package will fail
But when the economy does recover, as all economies do whether stimulated or not, Obama and his MSM friends will claim a victory spurned on by his
outrageously wasteful spendinginfinite wisdom.fogw on February 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Who says that Obama doesn’t have a sense of humor? He has to be laughing behind his hand over this.
Uniblogger on February 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM
…wait, just one more…
Best of Biden
Robert_Paulson on February 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM
This is like letting a stupid guy adminster stupid policy.
Akzed on February 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM
FIFY
spaninq on February 23, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Each day confirms my opinion that this country no longer exists. Hard to determine which appointment the ONE has made is the worst. Just think old lady Pelosi is 3rd in line should anything happen to these two “sharpies”. Don’t know about anyone else but the term “CZAR” has always concerned me. I guess it was used to break us in slowly to the direction this country is headed. May GOD have mercy on our soul.
hillbilly on February 23, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Just sold my last growth mutual fund at a significant loss.
My broker, who normally would convince me not to said “I would do the same”.
This administration is an investors nightmare.
jjshaka on February 23, 2009 at 2:09 PM
Finally…Boy do I feel better now? Kinda like having the first bowel movment after a long period of consitpation.
sdd on February 23, 2009 at 2:09 PM
I saw the headline and immediately assumed it was cribbed from The Onion. Sadly, it wasn’t.
Physics Geek on February 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM
I thought we were fucked before. Now I KNOW we’re fucked. This idiot doesn’t even know what state he’s from!
GarandFan on February 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM
This is a joke right? Some lame attempt at satire, AP?
CarolynM on February 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Putting Joe Biden in charge of the Bailout Stinulus is like making the kid with Turret’s Syndrome the leader of the Debate Team.
DoctorDentons on February 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Ted Torgerson on February 23, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Obama sets up Czar Biden for his final act, stimulus aneurysm.
Limbaugh nailed the Obama presidency’s perpetual campaign on its head. Whatever you want to hear, Obama will say. “Words. Just words.” Muammar al-Qadhafi tagged Obama first.
Obama has put America on the global market butcher block in his own fashioned “Egyptian Sale”.
Biden can only survive in pleasantries. When the $h*t hits the fan backfiring on Biden, he simply can’t take it. He’s too old and brittle to duck, and too proud to endure the shame and humiliation from public outrage directed specifically at HIM.
maverick muse on February 23, 2009 at 2:13 PM
While I’m sure your sentiment is shared by many of us, use asterisks or something when you use profanity. We aren’t liberals here.
CarolynM on February 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM
What this administration really needs is a STUPIDITY CZAR. There is so much stupidity running rampant and being wasted that they need to get someone in control of it so that we can have this massive stupidity concentrated and directed to where it is really needed. It is a shame to see such an amazing level of stupidity go to waste.
progressoverpeace on February 23, 2009 at 2:15 PM
Can anyone say ‘fall guy?’
ignorantapathy on February 23, 2009 at 2:17 PM
I submitted my $0.02:
antoniojvr on February 23, 2009 at 2:18 PM
This , is actually a brilliant move on Obambi’s part, because the wheels on the bus go thump,thump,thump when the stimulus has a monumental failure to do anything but increase public debt. He’s going to be the fall guy for a failed policy, and besides, maybe he will be sooooooo busy he wont have any time for international relations. hee hee
too bad we all fubarred in the meantime
UNREPENTANT CONSERVATIVE CAPITOLIST on February 23, 2009 at 2:19 PM
“Fall guy”. Exactly. He takes the fall and gets the boot from the ticket.
marklmail on February 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM
OMG….is there popcorn with this show?!? This just keeps gettin better and better. Just when you think…this can’t get any stupider; BAM your floored. For more of the Skinny on the Obama Camp tune into
It’s really really hard to tell who’s who. But obviously, the monkey is in charge. Oops…Sharpton’s gonna get me!
lm10001 on February 23, 2009 at 2:20 PM
Dive! Dive!
InkyBinkyBarleyBoo on February 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM
This is all so surreal……Plugs bin Biden in charge of 800 billion bucks? I feel physically ill. The only thing being stimulated here is my anger; my blood is boiling. This crap is F**KING PISSING ME OFF. Obama is running our fine, beautiful, proud country like it’s a joke. (leaving for awhile to vent….)
Ris4victory on February 23, 2009 at 2:21 PM
There’s a new physical law. I’ll call it the Hairplugs Constant.
Biden’s probability of success or failure will be in direct proportion to off of whom he plagiarizes.
viking01 on February 23, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Joe Biden thrown under the Obama Bus.
I wonder if at somepoint he’ll throw chewbacca under there as well.
Kai on February 23, 2009 at 2:27 PM
It’s a terrible thing to realize that a future documentary of the Obama Administration will be undiscernable from re-runs of Monty Pythons’ Flying Circus.
“Those Yanks have a strange sense of humor”
BobMbx on February 23, 2009 at 2:32 PM
Two negatives equal a positive (Porkulus and Biden). I think it’s a great idea. Pure Genious.
/sarc
Joe Caps on February 23, 2009 at 2:33 PM
I’d be laughing my ass off if there wasn’t a national economy on the line.
So, I’m just giggling my ass off.
blatantblue on February 23, 2009 at 2:34 PM
Wonderful…..we have a “Community Organizer in Chief” for a president, and he has just handed over the “stimulus pkg.” to our “Used Car Salesman” VP!!! I do NOT have a good feeling about this…do you??
NotPC on February 23, 2009 at 2:35 PM
as I watch his speech, does it strike anyone that BHO looks like he’s not sleeping well. or is it, he’s figured out that this is all a big debacle?
jimmer on February 23, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Jake Tapper has this today:
President Takes Veiled Shot at GOP Guvs
I guess that means they can’t give any money to ACORN/sarc.
Obama is really playing the heavy with this. Considering the amount of waste built into the stimulus it is the height of ludicrous hypocrisy that he even say this.
And speaking of ludicrous hypocrisy, he also took this shot at Jindal:
INC on February 23, 2009 at 2:45 PM
Nothing good EVER happens when the adults leave for the evening and say, “Now kids, we’re leaving you in charge…”
This reminds me of that.
varnson on February 23, 2009 at 2:46 PM
Biden is in charge of this because Barry WANTS chaos.
ouldbollix on February 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM
You wrecked my irony.
Akzed on February 23, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Is Obama keeping a lot of power in the executive branch or I’m I just imagining things?
Gwillie on February 23, 2009 at 2:51 PM
Heckuva job, Joey.
Jim Treacher on February 23, 2009 at 2:57 PM
we are so screwed,this gets worse as it goes.
centryt on February 23, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Is it me or does it seem that The One is just spreading the responsibility around instead of being the point man on big issues? He could have put Pelosi, Reed, Boehner, and McConnell in a room and worked out the stimulus details but he did not. He just let Pelosi and co. write the darn thing. Now he hands this off to Biden. I guess when the sh!$ goes bad he’ll start throwing these people under the bus. Its not me, it is them. Watch it happen.
Theworldisnotenough on February 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM
He won. Obey.
BHO Jonestown on February 23, 2009 at 3:04 PM
I’m still surprised that no one has brought up the fact that “call you out” is more appropriate for high school (or elementary school, really) than the dignity of the office of Precedent. … Well, it is about right for the office of Precedent, but I would think that someone would notice that it isn’t Presidential, in the least.
Of course, I never went to Harvard Law, so … maybe this is how they are taught to speak at that undistinguished institution? I’m not into legalese, really.
“I’m going to call you out!” — the Great Orator and Smooth Talker Supreme.
“Ooooooh. Your mother wears army boots.” (I figure that is the appropriate response, though I don’t know if I can really grasp the intricacies of the high-powered lingusitic usage our idiot messiah is so famous for.
Where is that STUPIDITY CZAR, already?
progressoverpeace on February 23, 2009 at 3:11 PM
I don’t think it’s overstating things to say that the comments are not unanimously approbatory.
Tzetzes on February 23, 2009 at 3:21 PM
While I’m sure your sentiment is shared by many of us, use asterisks or something when you use profanity. We aren’t liberals here.
CarolynM on February 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Seriously, and why the variance in standards- once I got my post deleted because I said Hillary needed to hide Bill’s vi*gra, and then they post potty talk? Please.
anniekc on February 23, 2009 at 3:24 PM
What this administration really needs is a STUPIDITY CZAR.
He’ll probably offer that post to the next freeloader that stands up and begs for something at his next campaign rally.
anniekc on February 23, 2009 at 3:27 PM
Send your comments to the administration folks themselves.
Tzetzes on February 23, 2009 at 3:28 PM
And the market is only down 3% on the news. I can see this is working already.
moxie_neanderthal on February 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM
Just wait until Japan gets to trading, tonight. They traded, last night, on the hope of that silly Citi announcement. Now they have to face reality. We’re looking at something like 30 year lows for the Nikkei.
progressoverpeace on February 23, 2009 at 3:48 PM
Why is everyone so down on Biden?
I’m sure he’ll do as fine a job as President Roosevelt did when he went on television after the Crash of ‘29.
malclave on February 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM
Maybe he’ll plagarize from Reagan this time. I’d be afraid to ask this guy for a dime – the charaties he supports would suffer a 10% reduction.
Fuquay Steve on February 23, 2009 at 3:50 PM
You’re right, it is childish. I should have caught that. That’s not adult to adult talk. Good grief, I just realized I didn’t even talk to my children in that manner when they were young.
This WH has not given a lot of indication that they have a deep bench of mature, serious, thoughtful adults working there.
INC on February 23, 2009 at 3:52 PM
Someone, tell me where they put the adults?
Fuquay Steve on February 23, 2009 at 3:55 PM
On the bright side, this President Obama had visited all 57 states.
Sir Napsalot on February 23, 2009 at 4:00 PM
On the other hand, this Biden person has a higher IQ than …
Sir Napsalot on February 23, 2009 at 4:02 PM
I don’t think they’re in the West wing.
The only adults around are probably to be found in the permanent WH staff and caretakers, as well as the Secret Service and any members of the military who work there.
INC on February 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Wouldn’t it be great if Biden’s so stooopid that he accidentally apportions all of the money to tax cuts for businesses, nuclear power plant construction, improving the nation’s power grid or any of the other plans that would actually stimulate the economy and yield long-term benefits?
Ah well, a fella can dream, can’t he? At least until they find a way to tax that, too.
DrAllecon on February 23, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Forget me or you catching that. Where the heck were the media? Not just the MSM but everybody. I kept hearing reporters, and the mayors who were there, repeating that phrase (they seemed to enjoy it) as if it were some sort of government-speak. I don’t even know what it meant. To me, “calling out” means to take someone behind the gym and beat the cr#p out of them.
I don’t know. I would have had flaming blog headlines over that, with questions about “The Great Orator”. Maybe they’ve all been overloaded with the stupidity pouring out of the idiot messiah and his staff of numbskulls?
All I can say is that nothing makes me more furious than hearing people talk about the alleged intelligence of that moron … except when they talk about how he’s such a great and articulate speaker. It’s just ridiculous.
progressoverpeace on February 23, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Down 3.4% on investor confidence. You don’t say? What this stimulus needs is more talk from it’s point man, that’ll get the market back up to it’s knees.
(giggles)
Perhaps we can hear about how more taxes and a new carbon cap and trade regime will grow the economy. My guess someone in the Hope-n-Change brain trust put on a monster short position prior to this posse coming to town.
moxie_neanderthal on February 23, 2009 at 4:15 PM
If we don’t do something…one day communism and radical islam will melt into one, gigantic, unstoppable(by us anyway) nightmare.
mark my words. i’m not Rush, but I see way ahead and i see ….trouble. Of course, these days – it ain’t hard to see THAT is it? ;)
OwlorNothing on February 23, 2009 at 4:25 PM
Damn! It just keeps going from bad to worse. Is there an emptier head in Washington than Biden? I think not!
stacman on February 23, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Lone Star on February 23, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Speaking of alien invasion, sometimes you wonder if it hasn’t already happened.
I was thinking the ‘body snatcher’…the REAL Obama or any Democrat were replaced by pre-programmed bots….
Sir Napsalot on February 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM
First task: Spend 3 billion to put screen doors on the sub fleet.
mojo on February 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM
No, but he’d not be the emptiest head on a Chicago or New York City trading floor. That award goes to Santelli.
sethstorm on February 23, 2009 at 5:12 PM
What?!? There’s no way he ran out of arse-kissing Marxist sycophants already?
Maybe some potentials had been visited by apparitions of Ron Brown and Vince Foster and feel it best not to get too involved?
Dr. ZhivBlago on February 23, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Ohh crap
the First Idiot sends the second rate moron
to oversee a third rate Spending bill that does nothing but buys condoms for overseas sex addicts..
sheesh and you wonder why our nation is in trouble..
Morons..
jcila on February 23, 2009 at 6:53 PM
And after 30 yrs as a well-paid Senator, he has almost nothing to show for it.
jgapinoy on February 23, 2009 at 8:06 PM
In all my years watching politics, this seems to be the most incapable group of individuals I have ever seen run our government!.
This is yet another example of another stupid appointment !
What kind of idiot made the Biden selection? Could it possibly someone even more stupid than Biden?
jerseyjoe99982002 on February 23, 2009 at 8:19 PM
What’s his IQ? Anybody know?
Fuquay Steve on February 23, 2009 at 8:32 PM
“Stand up Chuck – let us get a look at you.” Someone from the audience: “He’s in a wheelchair Senator.”
“Oh God bless ya.”
This is what the country needs. Benny Hill on stage.
Fuquay Steve on February 23, 2009 at 8:38 PM
It’s more like the dead parrot skit from Monty Python.
sethstorm on February 23, 2009 at 10:27 PM
Loin your girds!
profitsbeard on February 23, 2009 at 11:37 PM
What in great tarnation is a “Biden Stimulus”? Is it anything like a vibrator?
unclesmrgol on February 24, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Good call, place the bonehead in charge of the bungler’s bailout plan. Makes perfect sense.
workingforpigs on February 24, 2009 at 12:23 AM
We have a big pile of slop to feed the taxpayer and now Joe the schlep is in charge of shoveling it your way real soon.. So if it fails, it’s Joes fault. I can see this coming.
workingforpigs on February 24, 2009 at 1:48 AM
Our only hope is if Joe is as stingy with the stimulus money as he is with his charitable contributions which hover around the 1% level.
Fuquay Steve on February 24, 2009 at 7:53 AM
The stimulus is now a hot potato that he just tossed to Joe Biden. Now it’s his problem and if it all goes wrong it will be his fault. Does anyone see a pattern in Ozama like this forming.
workingforpigs on February 24, 2009 at 8:25 AM
In temperment and intelligence, Joe Biden reminds me of Eustace, the farmer in Courage, The Cowardly Dog. I can see the gypsy chihuahua saying: “The stupid one, he is stupid, yes?”
Sorry, my imagination tends toward the simple.
SKYFOX on February 24, 2009 at 8:45 AM
Definition Stimulus
Stimulus stands for Dem backscratching
We may struggle and succeed in spite of D.C.
When Obama says a hand from washington. That means One hand picking my pocket and the other hand around my throat in case i resist.
seven on February 24, 2009 at 9:09 AM
This is a master stroke: Blame the doofus when things go down!
kens on February 24, 2009 at 1:40 PM
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