Joe Biden Tag

Joe Biden On ObamaCare: “you couldn’t keep your doctor if you wanted to necessarily”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on January 06, 2020 20 Comments

Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared at a town hall in Iowa over the weekend and was asked about ObamaCare. Giving a typically rambling non-answer, Biden did admit a couple of salient details: nope, you couldn't keep your doctor "necessarily" as Obama repeatedly promised, and "no one did understand ObamaCare."

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Dem Rep. Joe Kennedy III: Biden Family Members Shouldn’t Profit From Political Relatives

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 04, 2020 21 Comments

Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) is currently challenging Senator Ed Markey to replace him as United States senator for Massachusetts. During a recent appearance on CNN, he expressed some concern about the appearance of Hunter Biden profiting from his father's political connections.

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Joe Biden Suggests English Legal Traditions to Blame for Campus Sexual Assaults

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 04, 2020 6 Comments

"It is our English jurisprudential culture, our European culture that says it is all right."...

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Biden to Coal Miners: “Learn to Program”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 31, 2019 45 Comments

Telling Journalists to "learn to code" in anticipation of their job losses is enough to get you kicked off Twitter. Seriously. Joe Biden promised to create a new legion of unemployed blue collar workers to advance the Green New Deal, as we covered in Biden Says Willing to Sacrifice Hundreds of Thousands of Energy Workers for a Green Economy.

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Joe Biden Says He’d Consider a Republican Running Mate

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 30, 2019 34 Comments

Former Vice President Joe Biden (D-DE) is still hanging on to the top slot in the 2020 presidential primary clown car.  Biden has recovered from a disappointing third quarter fundraising slump and is still leading the Democrat field in most polls.

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After brutal mockery, Biden kinda-sorta walks back refusal to obey Senate impeachment trial subpoena

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2019 20 Comments

Joe Biden was clear twice on the record in the past month that he would refuse to obey a Senate subpoena to testify at Trump's impeachment trial. There was no lack of clarity in the questions or Biden's answer. As documented in my prior post, Biden said it in an NPR interview earlier this month and again to the Des Moines Register yesterday.

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Biden: Of course I’d nominate Obama for Supreme Court “if he’d take it”

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 28, 2019 10 Comments

Nice way to motivate the base -- the Republican base....

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Biden: I won’t comply with subpoena to testify at Senate impeachment trial

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 27, 2019 39 Comments

There is no indication that Mitch McConnell and his Republican majority in the Senate are going to let the impeachment trial turn into a wide-ranging free-for-all. Democrats desperately want to try to rescue their woefully inadequate impeachment case by locating evidence outside the record on which impeachment was based. At the same time, some Republicans wish for the day they can get Joe Biden, Adam Schiff and other Democrats on the witness stand.

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Biden Says Willing to Sacrifice Hundreds of Thousands of Energy Workers for a Green Economy

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 20, 2019 26 Comments

The issues of energy and climate change came up at the Democratic debate on Thursday night as expected. What was surprising, was Joe Biden's response when asked about displacing American energy workers for the sake of fighting climate change.

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Hundreds of Obama Alumni Throw Biden Under the Bus and Endorse Warren for 2020

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 19, 2019 12 Comments

Obama's non-endorsement of Joe Biden has been the subject of much speculation, but now things are getting even stranger. Hundreds of people who worked for the Obama campaign and administration are now backing Elizabeth Warren.

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Jill Biden on MSNBC: Trump is a Bully and Afraid to Run Against My Husband

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 15, 2019 51 Comments

Jill Biden appeared on MSNBC this week to discuss her husband's presidential campaign and other issues. She seems very confident in Joe's abilities despite his repeated missteps on the campaign trail.

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Joe Biden Wants to Restore Obama Title IX Policies on College Campuses

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 13, 2019 2 Comments

"a monstrously unfair process that has forced hundreds of young men to sue for their rights — and reputations — in federal courts"...

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Sources Close to Joe Biden Say He Might Only Serve One Term if Elected

Posted by Mike LaChance on December 12, 2019 31 Comments

Joe Biden is 77 years old, and if he became president, he would be 82 upon finishing his first term. Based on that fact, sources close to the former vice president are saying that Biden is quietly floating the idea of only serving one term if he wins.

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Biden Loses Mind on Iowa Voter: ‘You’re a Damn Liar, Man’

Posted by Mary Chastain on December 05, 2019 44 Comments

Is there something in the air? First Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi barks at a reporter. Now 2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden went ballistic on an audience member in Iowa who asked him about Hunter Biden's role at Burisma Holdings.

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BIDEN GONE WILD — Video surfaces of Joe talking about children touching his hairy legs, Joe chewing on wife’s finger

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on December 01, 2019 36 Comments

Former Vice President and current 2020 Democrat candidate for president Joe Biden (DE) has a long history of gaffes, making questionable statements, being handsy and creepy, and generally being a bit of a buffoon.

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Biden Floats As Possible VP Pick “the woman who should have been the governor of Georgia”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 26, 2019 33 Comments

While the news was extremely bad for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), the most recent polling by Quinnipiac shows former vice president Joe Biden (D-DE) back at the top of the pack.  Even before this poll's release, Biden was batting around ideas for his own VP should he win the Democrat nomination.

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Biden’s Senior Latina Advisor Jumps Ship ‘Over Her Lack of Input’ and His ‘Immigration Rhetoric’

Posted by Mary Chastain on November 25, 2019 33 Comments

2020 Democratic presidential hopeful former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign hit another snag as his senior Latina advisor Vanessa Cárdenas quit. She became "frustrated over her lack of input and with the presidential candidate’s immigration rhetoric."

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Biden, Warren Pander to Stacey Abrams, Repeat Debunked Claims About Her Election Loss

Posted by Stacey Matthews on November 24, 2019 30 Comments

Though the Democratic candidates for president debated in Stacey Abrams' home state of Georgia last Wednesday, surprisingly enough her name was only mentioned twice during the debate itself - once by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (MN) and the other time by Sen. Cory Booker (NJ).

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