Possibly a very important policy change quietly emerged in the daily schedule of Vice President Joe Biden today.
Loyal Ticket readers know that, as a patriotic duty, we monitor the longtime senator’s schedule with a close eye for detail because, after all, this man is only a heartbeat away from having to give a toast at a G-8 summit. We’ve especially noted Biden’s innumerable “private meetings” that are closed to the press because, well, they’re private.
And we’ve wondered aloud how this Democratic VP’s private meetings with unnamed people on unnamed subjects differs from the private meetings with unnamed people that his evil predecessor had that got so many Democratic senators and representatives worried about nefarious secrets.
On one recent long weekend, the man who became a Delaware senator when his future boss, Barack Obama, was an inexperienced fundraiser of only 11, devoted an entire Monday to “private meetings” that are closed press in his Delaware home.
If that isn’t dedication for the $208,000 salary.
Well, today’s schedule, unlike many at the end of Biden’s work weeks, contains no “private meetings.” Not one.
Having spent Thursday traveling and successfully selling the nation on the so far hard-to-detect effects of the $787-billion Obama administration economic stimulus spending plan that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave them, Biden will show up for work around 11 today.
He’ll join Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a roundtable to discuss only the rising costs of healthcare for people who own or work for small businesses. One suspects the absent president’s ambitious plan to spend billions more to impose his healthcare reforms might also be mentioned.
OK, so figure an hour for the roundtable, maybe 75 minutes max. You can only talk about that stuff so long before requiring healthcare yourself. Fifteen minutes for handshaking, cellphone photos and congratulations on the excellent roundtable. The VP should be outta there by 12:30.
That leaves — what? — five, maybe six hours to make it a seven-hour workday.
According to the White House schedule, Biden will not spend the remainder of the workday in private meetings that are closed press.
Instead: “The Vice President will spend the remainder of the day in meetings that are closed press.”
You get the difference, right?
– Andrew Malcolm
4 Comments
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 5:37 pm
So much for transparency and not doing business as usual…
Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 5:29 am
Hey All,
Joe needs to retire to The Villages.
I hear he took the virtual tour.
He’s a disgrace.
We all should have seen Obama’s decision making ability when he made the choice of Biden for VP.
Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 8:17 am
IB,
True…for the change and hope crowd…it should have been an eye opener…you promise change…yet pick Biden (member of good ol’ boys club in Washington)…you promise hope and you pick Biden (who deals in hopelessness)…that decision alone would tell everyone the mindset of someone addicted to the same old, same old….No orginal thought in picking Biden. It was a safe and non threatening pick…would not want the bottom of the ticket to outshine the top. Personally I think he picked Biden…because he knew that HC supporters would never go for her being second on the ticket and losing there vote wouldn’t hurt as much as losing those dems who did not trust HC. There were more who did not like her than liked her in other words…besides Biden is easier to manipulate…he is a follower…not a leader…
Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 5:10 pm
Much like our mainstream democrat/progressives who post here…no leadership skills…it requires one to follow orders and not think about it for themselves….that is all the support that BHO/Lucifer needs from them…they will spew hate to the death…and I mean spiritual death….the body will follow soon enough…as per their god BHO/Lucifer’s orders!