Posted on 01/25/2009 3:23:06 PM PST by Baladas
CBS) Vice President Joe Biden said that the Obama administration and Congress are "off and running" in getting an economic stimulus package completed and approved with bipartisan support, saying that the goal is to "get money out of the door as rapidly as possible" to speed job growth.
However, Biden said he did not want to mislead Americans about the severity of the economic landscape the U.S. is facing: "It is worse, quite frankly, than everyone thought it was, and it's getting worse every day," he said on CBS' Face The Nation Sunday morning - his 53rd appearance on the program, and first as vice president.
"There's been no good news, and there's no good news on the immediate horizon," he said. "The only good news is the president acted swiftly; he's put together an economic stimulus package that we believe, and outsiders believe, will create 3 million to 4 million new jobs and set a new framework for the economy to develop on, a new foundation. And so we're off and running, but it's going to get worse before it gets better."
Biden credits early cooperation between the incoming administration and Congress with getting a jump on action, which he said was unprecedented during his 36 years in Washington. "I've been there for eight presidents," he told host Bob Schieffer. "I don't ever recall as a senator, a senior senator, being called down in the very beginning, even before the president is elected, to a serious meeting as to how to proceed.
"There is a genuine effort here. And I think everyone in both parties is seized with the notion we must act quickly."
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More accurate to say we've elected a real mess. Oh, and a bunch of communists.
It's the Obama Depression and nothing Joe Biden can say can change that fact.
WHAAAAAT?? I thought the Magic Negro will fix everything. I am still waiting for my free unicorn from Dear Leader.
hey joe, you didn’t have to accept the request to run for office.
What happened to the lollypops unicorns and sunshine???
Here it comes...”we cant fix it, it’s Bush’s fault.”
Notice to Joe...You were hired because you have a long winded mouth...
That will be Obama's campaing slogan in 2012.
Gawd their playbook is so predictable.
Not gonna work, Joe. Your boss told everyone that he was like G-d and could fix anything and everything with a waive of his hand. You chose to be the caboose on this trainwreck with Barack “Casey Jones” Obama as engineer.
Correction: You Democrats Helped Create A Real Mess
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“These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis, the more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.” ..... Barney Frank 2003 in response to Bush administration overhaul plan.
It's a whine contest. My money is on Pelosi-first, Obama-second, Biden-third, Kerry-fourth.
....I intend to write Pelosi that I'm in favor of the contraceptive funding in the bailout if restricted to her family, San Francisans, and Democrats.
Oh, and as if, you and your cronies have ANY clue on how to fix it.
Biden is nuts and that is becoming more apparent everyday. Obama can keep his cool but Biden is out of control. He’s a loose cannon in trouble every time he opens his mouth.I think we can expect continued bizarre behavior from him in the future.
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Re my previous post I didn’t mean you, Baladas.
What data is Obama, and Bush before him, seeing that seems to make them want to wet themselves? And why aren’t the taxpayers privy to it?
Face it, Joe. The nascent obama regime STILL has no idea how to get a handle on running a government, and not just a campaign. This is not a matter of intimidating voters that may stray off the reservation, and sending in squads of lawyers. There are some very real issues out there that do not see or understand the finesse and nuance of “splitting the difference”. You can’t “split the difference” on something like Hamas vs. Israel, or Iran vs. the world.
Your inning, Joe. Man up and play some hardball.
Everything is cool, our new President says he is NOT going to sweat. It´s just a breeze, a cake walk, s cinch. Everything he said was ´just words´.
I’m glad Biden said this and now we can really compare.
Bush left with a $455 billion deficit.
Unemployment at 7.2%.
Obama’s job is to have a lower deficit and unemployment in 4 years. Obama has also promised 5 million “Green Jobs” so lets see how that works out.
“BARACK OBAMA’S PLAN TO CREATE 5 MILLION NEW GREEN JOBS”
http://obama.3cdn.net/eff0ff1daa8bafe984_4yjqmv8j3.pdf
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