Biden to GOP voter: You’ll vote for me in 2016 when your insurance rates go down; Update: Romney and Putin are best buddies or something, says Biden
posted at 4:41 pm on October 31, 2012 by Allahpundit
The bad news? He was on the phone saying this at around the same time Jay Carney was sonorously warning reporters that “This is not a time for politics.” The good news? As you’ll see below, this wasn’t even in the top three most “interesting” things he said on the trail today. Which part of is more newsworthy, I wonder? The fact that Biden’s thinking about 2016 often enough to have it creep into his half-jokey banter with members of the public? Or the fact that he seems to believe, contra available evidence, that insurance rates post-ObamaCare will go down instead of up? Either way, the guy’s prospects remain marginally higher than that of the Quayle ’00 campaign. Quick check of the Hot Air “Election 2016″ Crystal Ball reveals the forecast unchanged: “No way, no chance, no how, unless nobody else runs.”
Like I said, this didn’t even crack the top three today. Number three:
Biden cites Cleveland Plain Dealer … one of the major newspapers “in this state” (Biden’s in FL right now)
— Joe Pounder (@PounderFile) October 31, 2012
Number two, a variation on one of Biden’s favorite topics on the stump:
Biden turned to the group of guys, then, according to the pool report, Biden asked one of them, “Are you Indian?”
“American!” the man responded.
“No, I mean first generation,” Biden replied, “with the further explanation of what he was saying being inaudible to the pool.”
And, via the Standard, at number one, Drudge’s pick of the day. Question for politicos per the clip: Does anyone in your “business” actually use the term “the whole load”? Sounds like one of those things that only Joe says but which he thinks everyone says because no one has the heart to pull him aside and explain all the nervous glances when he says it.
Update: Check that. Turns out the “2016″ comment isn’t in the top four weirdest things he’s said today.
“All of a sudden, I found out his new best buddy is Putin,” Biden said. “Man, I tell you. It’s amazing.”
Biden said Romney had embraced the idea that “we can work with Russia, we can be very close with Russia.”
It’s unclear what the vice president was referring to. In the last presidential debate. In fact, Romney defended his previous criticisms of Russia in that debate.
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My goodness – Schumer told the truth. That’s happened what once, twice in the past 10 years.
gophergirl on May 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM
As designed. In a few years, these same folks will be shrieking that we have to “fix” it with a national VAT, taxing 401ks, etc. It never ends.
JeremiahJohnson on May 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM
PARTIALLY?!?!?!
Gawd how i despise these lying idiot con-artists.
dentarthurdent on May 3, 2013 at 12:03 PM
He was probably temporarily mesmerized by that shiny, shiny camera lens…
trigon on May 3, 2013 at 12:08 PM
I hate Liberals with a burning passion.
Charlemagne on May 3, 2013 at 12:08 PM
My renewal last December in Maryland, which already controls coverages and prices (like the ObamaCare future for everyone) went up 34% at my company. My broker has alerted me already that I should expect that or worse this coming December.
MTF on May 3, 2013 at 12:08 PM
stupid is as stupid does. This clown fits right in with the rest of the circus in DC.
RedInMD on May 3, 2013 at 12:09 PM
What’s that ??
Jabberwock on May 3, 2013 at 12:13 PM
rogerb on May 3, 2013 at 12:13 PM
Instead of repealing it, they’re going to keep it and push forward with it.
Where are our trolls to defend that?
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 12:14 PM
The only thing about Obamacare that makes me smile is that, for the very first time, liberals are actually going to pay out of their own wallets.
I hope they sleep like babies: Up all night and crying.
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 12:19 PM
B@stards… lying b@stards…
Khun Joe on May 3, 2013 at 12:23 PM
As Rush always puts it, “Chuck U Schumer.”
Drained Brain on May 3, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Yeah, no frackin’ shiite Schumer! Off topic, does Chuck Schumer look like the Grinch, or is it just me? Also off topic, isn’t his name off by one letter…Chuck Schemer seems more appropriate…
Battlecruiser-operational on May 3, 2013 at 12:28 PM
Partially?
Putz.
coldwarrior on May 3, 2013 at 12:30 PM
Don’t be fooled for a minute. A Dem never does anything except by stealth and the goal was always single payer. This debacle is deliberate because it is unenforceable. The Dems know this and knew this when they shoved it down our throats through a parliamentary trick. Single payer is the goal and at this rate it is heading straight for that.
neyney on May 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Well, Schumer is the Americanized version of the old Yiddish Schmutz.
coldwarrior on May 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM
Quite possibly, the individual I most despise in
the U.S. Senate.
ToddPA on May 3, 2013 at 12:34 PM
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Sadly, with the current public education system this may as well be rocket science.
hopeful on May 3, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Schumer is a greasy, sniveling, filthy Communist.
There is nothing that these filthy pigs don’t want:
They want our guns.
They want our money.
They want our very life [healthcare] decisions.
They want our children.
They want total control.
OhEssYouCowboys on May 3, 2013 at 12:37 PM
He looks like an Imp straight out of the pits of hell.
jawkneemusic on May 3, 2013 at 12:37 PM
Rush is much more demure than I.
Resist We Much on May 3, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Sad, isn’t it, that there so many from which to choose? I have a hard time deciding the Top Five of which to despise the most. Right now, and subject to change, is McCain.
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 12:38 PM
Yes, you have that particuwar knack of hurting tender wiberwal feewings. ~S~
Happy Friday, Esquire!
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 12:40 PM
Obama: Premiums Will Decrease 3000% So You Should Get A Raise
munseym on May 3, 2013 at 12:41 PM
Way, way up there on the list of execrable Senators, but Harry Reid is in a class of his own.
The Democrats do have a regular rogues gallery in DC: Dick Durbin, Patty Murray, Bernie Sanders, Claire McCaskill and Fauxcohantas herself. All incredible hacks.
Throat Wobbler Mangrove on May 3, 2013 at 12:41 PM
The next pile to come out of the democrat’s mouths will be, “Hey, it’s patriotic to pay more for insurance premiums!”
Sterling Holobyte on May 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM
Please
stop
giving
them
new
ideas!
:-)
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Health Care 2.0
–bayam
tom daschle concerned on May 3, 2013 at 12:49 PM
bayam?
sesqui?
anyone?
Chuck Schick on May 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM
Like the trolls are going to touch this one…
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 12:51 PM
the University of Houston recently sent out a pledge drive newsletter that highlited her not only as double graduate but also former instructor there, even had the anecdote about her being blocked in an appointment but “getting the last laugh against conservatives” by being elected as senator…killed any incentive I had to participate. blech
DanMan on May 3, 2013 at 12:53 PM
Geez, what a day!
First, I hear this Human parasite actually be truthful,
then, I read where Lindsey Lohan has fired her attorney
and entered rehab!
I really looked up to her, s/c
ToddPA on May 3, 2013 at 12:54 PM
For me it’s generally whichever one I heard speak last.
tommyboy on May 3, 2013 at 1:05 PM
When you turn on the light the roaches scatter….
tommyboy on May 3, 2013 at 1:06 PM
That’s about how I do it. Either that, or a dart board.
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 1:19 PM
Don’t worry azzhat. Your “seperate but equal” healtcare for you and every offspring your brood mare produced won’t go up and they’ll have it for life.
Your “seperate but equal” pension plan for you and your family will also not go up and still exists unlike the trash you foisted on us and looted and replaced with worthless IOUs.
Screw you and your ruling elite ilk.
acyl72 on May 3, 2013 at 1:23 PM
I measure the amount of grease that pools at their feet, after 1 minute at the podium.
OhEssYouCowboys on May 3, 2013 at 1:29 PM
Are you sure it’s grease and not something else?
Liam on May 3, 2013 at 1:31 PM
I’m afraid to ask, so I won’t.
But I’m laughing.
OhEssYouCowboys on May 3, 2013 at 1:35 PM
This is one of those Forward! moments.
tommer74 on May 3, 2013 at 1:39 PM
Dr.s Ben & Ilene Dover have corroborated this story line.
belad on May 3, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Somebody got a thug call from the White House…
The Rogue Tomato on May 3, 2013 at 2:26 PM
EGGSACTLY what happened in the Soviet Union.
The only thing that is missing is the show trial.
I’m sure that they will come, when the Unmade Bed takes the 2016 election, and Marxism becomes the norm.
OhEssYouCowboys on May 3, 2013 at 2:27 PM
He just fell on his “walk-back”
ACA was supposed to LOWER the actual rate. Not slow the rise.
FAILURE !
Jabberwock on May 3, 2013 at 2:29 PM
At United Health Care, there is a massive project underway just to try to enact some level of compliance with upcoming Obamacare regs – it isn’t just the cost involved in implementation, but the cost of simply comprehending the bill that is already sucking millions of dollars out of companies.
Professor_Chaos on May 3, 2013 at 2:37 PM
By 3000%.
BobMbx on May 3, 2013 at 2:49 PM
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Friday walked back his remarks
Somebody got a thug call from the White House…
The Rogue Tomato on May 3, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Schumer probably got a call from his messaging guru who told him what to really say.
bflat879 on May 3, 2013 at 2:54 PM
One of the few growth areas in the REB-economy are Obamacare-compliance consultants.
slickwillie2001 on May 3, 2013 at 2:57 PM
Its worse than that. They support the AARP healthcare project – and AARP is very pro- Obamacare.
I think UHC has sided with the govt. Look out if your employer uses them.
Zomcon JEM on May 3, 2013 at 3:30 PM
Yeah, every now and then they let down their verbal guard and the truth slips out, like Harry Reid referring to the recently defeated Senate gun bill as ‘anti-gun legislation.’
Sen. Ted Cruz called it a Freudian slip. It was a Fluke-up. Like
SchumerSchumer’s.Schumer.
de rigueur on May 3, 2013 at 4:31 PM
Axe on May 3, 2013 at 6:53 PM
Health Care 1.0 – “Die Hard”
Health Care 2.0 – “Die Harder”
:)
Shoot for 3?
Axe on May 3, 2013 at 6:57 PM
(Emphasis mine.)
“If we had not have done this horrible thing, it would have been worse. It’s really, really bad now, but it would have been infinitely worse otherwise.”
Yet another unprovable, unquantifiable statement. You can claim this about anything while doing an incredibly sucky job.
Theophile on May 3, 2013 at 9:51 PM