Joe Biden screws up. The sun rises in the east. The world keeps on spinning.
02/26/09
Ahhh, Joe Biden. Have they banished him to Cheney's bunker in that "hidden location" yet?
It's like he's the decidedly dour, depressing, pessimistic Obama administration's comic relief. While Obama pontificates about impending disaster and castrophes in the offing in we don't act immediately - and do exactly what he wants to do, of course - Biden is out there turning to ask an aide (all while on camera) for the "number" to direct you down the precise internets tube to bring you to the website that provides you all the information on the "stimulus" debacle that Team Obama deems worth for public consumption.
And then there's this... which is just flat out incorrect information:
"But what I don't understand from Governor Jindal is what would he do?," asks Joe Biden while on the Early Show.
That rhetorical question to Governor Jindal on the Early Show, was followed with this: "in Louisiana there's 400 people a day losing their jobs, what's he doing?" asks Biden.
But that claim is wrong, if you look at the numbers from the Louisiana Workforce Commission.
"In December, Louisiana was the only state in the nation besides the District of Columbia, according to the national press release that added employment over the month," says Patty Granier with the Louisiana Workforce Commission. According to her, not only is Louisiana not losing jobs. "The state gained 3,700 jobs for the seasonally adjusted employment," Granier said of the most recent figures.
And for something else nifty, you can even navigate your way down those tubes of the internets to reach laworks.net, where even someone like VP Biden can go to get, ya know, real data.
As for his thoughts on this most recent episode of making a fool of himself:
[KSLA] called the White House press office today and left a message for the vice president's office, but have not received a call back.
Biden was unavailable for comment because at the time, he was dining at Katie's Restaurant. And since he had to hop into his time machine and travel back 20 or so years, it'll be a while before we can officially hear form him on this issue.