Joe Biden Handicaps Dems 2010 Prospects

Vice President Joe Biden handicapped the Democrats prospects for the 2010 midterm elections at a fundraiser for WA Senator Patty Murray.

His prognostication?

But Biden predicted Democrats would "do just fine" in the November elections because the administration will bring 90,000 U.S. troops home and the economy will recover, according to a pool report.

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One cannot help feeling for the Veep. As the saying goes, on him falls the lot of turning chicken (ahem) excrement into chicken salad. But even by this mission impossible standard the Vice President’s words ring hollow.

A poll released just last week, showing the full extent of the Democrats grim prospects in 2010, has the President losing to a “generic Republican” in a Presidential match up.

Regarding National security, though the U.S. is drawing down its forces in Iraq, even as I type, U.S. forces are launching one of the biggest assaults on Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan – the assault being possible, of course, on account of the Obama Administration’s decision to send in an additional 30,000 troops to the war-torn region.

And while Biden must have missed the memo, on the jobs front, even the White House is projecting high unemployment for the next five years.

Naturally, for a spin-master such a Biden, the facts are little more than an inconvenience. But even he would have to concede that his remarks are disingenuous at best.