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Joe Biden as Paul Revere

September 21, 2009 6:01 PM

The White House is already stepping up its game in advance of next year’s elections, which master Charlie Cook thinks could be a tsunami that sweeps out Democrats.

Outside advisers are being brought to help come up with a strategy.  NY Governor David Patterson is being pushed out (but will he go?). 

And, as ABC’s Karen Travers points out, Vice President Biden raised the stakes today, saying that Obama’s entire agenda rests on what happens to those 35 House Democrats representing traditionally Republican districts.

Here he is in Delaware today:

“It’s not that Republicans are bad guys. This is just the bet they’ve made. They’re going to put their chips on movement in the 35 seats in the House that have been traditionally Republican districts and trying to take them back,” VP Biden said. “If they take them back, this the end of the road for what Barack and I are trying to do. This is their one shot. If they don’t break the back of our effort in this upcoming election you’re going to see the things we said we’re for happen.”

If the Democrats can hold those seats “the dam is going to break,” VP Biden said. “All the hidden Republicans that don’t have the courage to vote the way they want to vote because of pressure from the party … it will break the dam and you will see bipartisanship.”

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Why is it always about the Republicans or the Democrats and not about the people they represent?

Posted by: mm | Sep 21, 2009 6:38:42 PM

Joe Biden as Paul Revere??? Is this a joke? I would laugh but Joe Biden IS the joke..Joe Biden is as unqualified to be VP as Obama is POTUS!! Both of them have serious problems...Biden is a gaff a minute and Obama is a liar a minute...Both of them together makes them a laughing stock of the\is country!

Posted by: ross | Sep 21, 2009 6:45:17 PM

Benedict Arnold more like it!

Posted by: W. Wallace | Sep 21, 2009 6:57:36 PM

And Sarah Palin is qualified?

What has McCain ever run before? He wasn`t even a general.

As I speak now Obama is more qualified to be president than all the republican jokers aspiring to be president.

Posted by: Proud Liberal | Sep 21, 2009 6:59:34 PM

I HOPE that all of you Obama voters who voted for him because you thought that it would be "cute" to have a black President or because he had a nice baritone voice or because he scowled well or because you were "hoping" or "believing" have come to your senses, especially those of you who think that this Democrat-Socialist Party is still the Party of Truman or JFK. What you elected was a fellow who has no clue which is why he has all those czars running everything while he, the President runs around making speeches every day. Here's a basic no-no : Don't elect someone to the top executive post in the land who has zero executive experience. Don't elect a Socialist if you don't like Socialism. We will have a chance to at least apply the brakes to this fellow next year, until then pay attention to the news, track what your reps. in government are doing and be prepared to vote them out if they don't comport with with what the Founders had in mind which was small federal government and freedom for the individual.

Posted by: Ron | Sep 21, 2009 7:00:50 PM

I think those seats are as good as gone. I know seniors who voted democratic but now see they were disillusioned in the last election and are not happy, and, I don't think the kiddies will be voting in such large numbers either. Sorrrry Mr. Biden. It's time for a change.

Posted by: ironbuttannie | Sep 21, 2009 7:01:47 PM

Biden as Paul Revere? Romney saying it's not time for Hamlet? This seems to be the day for extremely tangential references... How about a little less erudition and a little more communication?

Posted by: Bob Wolff | Sep 21, 2009 7:02:19 PM

I think it's the height of pettiness when the president tries to control who runs for governor in any state. This is not democracy in action, it is petty, partisan politics at its slimy worst> Shame one you Mr. President!

Posted by: Ed Taylor | Sep 21, 2009 7:09:25 PM

Paul Revere ? Well nutty Joe would look good mounted backwards on a galloping horse. Maybe he could yell "the Socialists are coming !"

Posted by: Ron | Sep 21, 2009 7:11:23 PM

Everytime Biden opens his mouth he sticks his foot in it. Next year is going to be very interesting and being the political news junky that I am, I cannot wait for the campaigns to begin.

Posted by: Patricia McFadyen | Sep 21, 2009 8:25:58 PM

Throw out ALL incumbents regardless of party! They have bailed out everybody on the backs of the taxpayer! It's time for the gravy train for billionaires who don't even pay their taxes to END!!!

This is no longer D vs. R. It is the corrupt living off of the fruits of the evaporating middle class.

If you give benefits to the very rich as well as benefits to the non working poor, (illegals) you can only go as far as the middle class and the working poor can take you. That well is not bottomless. Obama and the Democrats are finding that out now. The only thing that can save the incumbents D and R is Diebold electronic voting systems without a paper trail. So I wouldn't be surprised if the voter discontent leads to the same morons getting "reelected."

The write the rules and approve the voting machines after all...

If you push people too far up against the wall, the invariably end up in the streets. Maybe this is why Gerald Celente is predicting a revolution before 2012... Ya think!?!

Posted by: jafo | Sep 21, 2009 9:02:28 PM

Joe - the democrats currently hold those 35 seats but you are not getting done ANY of the things you promised to do - but we are supposed to believe that IF the republicans don't take them all back next year - THEN you'll finally get to work???? Nice try.

Posted by: judy | Sep 21, 2009 9:10:00 PM

Hey Joe, Paul Revere didn't make it that far on his famous ride...he got picked up by the British just outside Concord. So this is an apt comparison.

Posted by: Bill | Sep 21, 2009 9:55:54 PM

Looking quickly at the earlier posts we see the Pres. and V. Pres. referred to as "cute", "socialist", cowardly, dishonest. and traitor. When Mr. Pres. Stupid was criticized like this the posters were all guilty of treason. The wars go on, Amricans keep dying, nut these living definitions of hypocricy have changed their tune. It's fine that they screwed us working folks for 8 years, and not only block any chance at change but balme us for the problems they created. It's time to stop trying to reason with them. Intellectual bullies only understand greater power.

Posted by: B.Bear | Sep 22, 2009 12:59:06 AM

We Americans need to stand up for our freedoms and liberties, as everyone can see: individual rights are quickly disappearing,

Mandates say: force, No choice, No freedom to decide, and No right to choose,

Congress mandatory health care policies really means that: Our freedoms are gradually being taken away from us...

Posted by: L. Elycia | Sep 22, 2009 1:14:21 AM

Please list the freedoms you lost?
I can give you a few that I lost during the Chenney Admin.
Spying on American citizens without a warrent.

Posted by: DemandSide | Sep 22, 2009 8:14:27 AM

HaHA, Paul Revere not! He is trying to be a left wing Glen Beck! Biden is scared, very scared and you should be scared too!

Boo! the GOP boogeyman is out to get you!

Posted by: scott jeffries | Sep 22, 2009 9:16:02 AM

We need more people like Biden who can tell us the unfortunate consequences of having the Republican party in power. They are a party with a track record of unmitigated failure, as demonstrated during the Bush era. This country simply cannot AFFORD to have Republicans in power again.

Posted by: DaveM | Sep 22, 2009 9:18:41 AM

The Dems have every reason to be concerned about 2010.....as well as 2012.

Posted by: Rick McDaniel | Sep 22, 2009 10:15:27 AM

As it looks now the Dems are in real big trouble in 2010. They have cause this not the Rep. They have called the poeple who elected them every name in the book cause they don't agree with them so what should they expect. Too bad but only ones to blame is the Dems. need to kick some out of office so the agenada caan be worked out in a reasonable way not the way the speaker of the house wants it or Ried or Franks etc.

Posted by: Robert | Sep 22, 2009 10:43:57 AM

People are seeing God's word come to life before them. The things He warned against are here. Our only hope is to turn to God's ways. We will fight with our faith against ways that have kept us silent. This is the change this president will bring.

Generally Republicans are Conservative meaning they stay closer to God's wisdom and guidance. Democrats are Liberal meaning they use their own wisdom. That is why Republicans are against killing our own children in the womb and Democrats want it.

Barack Obama uses secrecy about his personal identity, hiding records that could easily end a dividing controversy about his eligibility to be president. He tried to push through a huge Health Care Reform without knowing what was in it and before the public could review it. These are not the ways of God; it is the devil's territory to lie and steal from us one way or another.

Barack Obama will not stay in power; Democrats even in Democratic states will not stay in power. The only question is will Republicans (or others) choose a leader who will take them out of this world system of bondage into the true freedom of a garden paradise lifestyle or will they choose the same system with a leader who just says, "Praise the Lord?"

Posted by: Marie Devine | Sep 22, 2009 12:01:16 PM

You've got to be kidding? I hope!! What we have in the WH is mutt and jeff! You're losing it George.

Posted by: lovingpolitics | Sep 22, 2009 3:18:20 PM

Some knock Biden. He is more qualified to be Pres. and has been than anyone on the GOP ticket. Pres. Obama made the
gem pick with Joe Biden while McCain went glacier hunting with portentous
Palin. Take two adulterers and put them against two family men. Take two
smart savvy people who put their money by their mouth vs. McCain who spoke in favor of veterans but voted countless
times against them. This is buried.
Of Palin who tried to get people to
think she was the mother, not her
unwedded daughter and never wanted
unmarried to come out. Of Palin quitting because the governor's job was too hard. True. And VP would have been her death bed as well as the nation's.

Joe Biden is rallying the troops against
phonies & racist deceptors who put profits above people. He is the next
Paul Revere and has the inner strength
to show it. Obama as a fine president.
I support him. I could have supported
Biden more. Biden is a quality VP,
not a domineering dictator>Cheney.

Posted by: Alan Kardoff | Sep 22, 2009 5:43:30 PM

You mean the World Savior Obama Isn't The Strategy ????????? Now Why Wouldn't Everyone Want To Vote For BHO ?????????????

Posted by: myopinion | Sep 26, 2009 11:54:52 PM

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