VDH:
Surely in the interest of transparency and conflict of interest, any Senator, Republican or Democrat, who accepted money from Freddie and Frannie, or any of the imperiled investment houses, should recuse themselves from the present hearings—but then there might not be a quorum.
I’ve heard that the *Republican strategy regarding this self-proclaimed Smartest Guy in the Room is to let him keep talking.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed,” Biden told Couric. “He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.'”
* I just learned that’s a Jay Leno line.
Barack Obama said again that he wants to raise taxes on the rich—that’s provided by November anyone is still rich. … That seems to be the theme: Joe Biden said that paying higher taxes is patriotic. The Republican strategy on Joe Biden? Let him keep talking.
