Joe Biden update: The VP meets on government transparency today. But that meeting is closed

With President Obama out of the country tweaking things in Asia, carefully not bowing this time, and packing away some pista murg and balak papri chat, his trusty sidekick Joe Biden is left to find things to do back home.

There's a big Diwali party tonight at the White House. The vice president will be there.

But first, JB has a breakfast meeting with Sen. Chuck Hagel and then another one of those Middle Class Task Force events to try to find some of those thousands of missing green energy jobs that have been promised so often.

Joe's had some problems with promises recently. He assured everyone that last summer would be full of economic recovery. Which it wasn't. And Joe guaranteed that his Democratic Party would maintain majorities in both houses of Congress in last week's midterm election. Which it didn't.

Possibly the most important event of the vice president's day Tuesday is to meet at 2:15 with Earl Devaney. Everyone knows him as chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board -- the top guy monitoring the gazillion-dollar stimulus and the overdue economic recovery, and ensuring that the taxpayers financing same know all about it.

However, no one outside the room will know what goes on in that Biden-Devaney meeting. That's because the government meeting on government transparency has been closed.

-- Andrew Malcolm

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Comments

[Bagels with Hagel]

The most transparent aspect of this admin. is it's total incompetence and
gargantuesque appetite for utopian collectivism.Biden excels in his role as
the president's suppository.

[Al J]

VPOTUS Bite Me; THE most irrelevant human in the world, and possibly the dumbest too.

[kat]

From what I saw...he did bow...to the Indian Parliament.

[Regulas]

The Democrats are nothing more than puppets (many of them willingly) to the George Soros Communist agenda.

[astralweeks]

Snicker---and they take themselves seriously.

[seanmahair]

Typical.

[Chip]

I love Joe Biden. People, particularly the media, made fun of Dan Quayle's mis-spelling of potato (put an e on the end) and never let up on the guy, labeling him as not to bright. Biden mis-speaks and says some silly just about everytime he opens his mouth; but, no one questions his intelligence. He has predicted just about everything - wrong. Still no questions. I enjoy his silly comments, just wish they were not policy comments, they kind of count more in my book then spelling potato.

[S. Britchky]

I don't like this kind of talk about our VP. Yes, in 1988 he was forced out of the (then-)presidential campaign for lying, cheating, and claiming someone else's lahff story as his (Biden's) own. Sure, he (Biden) is a terminal dweeb who, nevertheless, receive only about 100 trillionth the amount of criticism of Sarah Palin during the 2008 campaign. And, yes, he-Biden has shown that he-would make mistake after goofy mistake as president, God forbid that would ever happen, but, if so, let Paris (Hilton) custoad the nukular codes. That's why I'm no liking bad talk about VP.

[JohnD]

You can't make this up. A closed door meeting on governemnt transparancy. LOL!

The Dems think we are all fools. They haven't learned a thing from this election. I can't wait for 2012. As the Dem congress get even more liberal, their ranks will shrink even more.

And as an aside, if the establishment Repubs keep trashing the tea party, they will have to go also. I am personally sick of Rove and Gingrich.

[Juan Brazos]

Two words; doo fus.

[fantasin]

The closed door meeting will confirm that Transparency is working, then old Joe can go to his party and re-tell funny stories or make them up, facts be damned, as he goes along. Every time Obama travels, I worry for his well being, because this loon is only a heartbeat away.

[catfishjoe]

Change you can believe in.

[Jan]

Why in the world is the White House "celebrating" Diwali... this nation is not Indian it is the U.S. And we know who's really pulling the stings: Bildeberg... which is who Biden has alliances with and not the soverignty of America. Your secrets will be revealed.

[Hazmat77]

Just wondering ... are those of you who believe in the left of center philosophy ready to admit that Obama's so-called "transparency" was and is nothing more than a deceptive device?

And how about Joe Biden's wonderful "prediction" track record ... he has been wrong almost 100% of the time !

[laughing]

LMAO! You just can't make this stuff up.

[Darrel]

I guess you missed the photo of Obama bowing in India. Yep, O-Bow-Mao did it again.

[Jack]

Ah, the absurdity continues. Carlos Casteneda wrote a book called An "Alternate Reality" and Joe certainly lives in it. Most people think he's just a joke but this is the big leagues people, wake up, he's a dangerous fool.

[Jenny Bea]

You libtards voted for this. For all your concerns about Bush violating privacy, secrecy within his Whitehouse, lies, etc. you people sure picked a winner, here. You all deserve exactly what you get.

[Joe]

Does he really think anyone is fooled anymore? People are not buying his lunacy and he only makes himself look more stupid.

[RallyG]

What an embarrassing jerk Biden is. Can anyone think of a more incompetent slug one heartbeat away from the prisidency?
At least number three will be competent after the new congress is seated.

[stupidDems]

Idiot dems will never learn... Keep voting for the Californians. You get what you deserve.

[Politically Incorrect]

Hypocrites rule our lives. Biden's actions and this article highlight the facts pretty good. The only transparency is the fact we are all screwed and will soon be facing sharia law. So go get a pretty burka and hide the jewish bible as freedom is and has been lost. P.S. be sure to pay your taxes, there are millions upon millions of illegal aliens counting on them

[kurt nielsen]

Why should this be any different than other Obama meetings. Not the first closed meeting. Will they ever understand the general public?

[So What]

Transparent does not mean you can see it, it means you can see through it. He is keeping this promise because we certainly can see through what he is doing. You have to be careful with Democrats, They use words that have a common meaning to make you think they are doing one thing when they are doing the exact opposite.

[BoBo from Texas]

Hope & Change!

[Satch]

Classic,what else would we expect. Knowing Joe,he probably thinks the Dems.,won the Election.

[woodNfish]

No surprise, really. This administration thinks that if they say it often enough it will be true enough even if it isn't. Makes sense, right?

Please throw these bums out in 2012.

[ra44mr2]

Im guessing irony totally escapes ole mr Biden.

[Jeff H]

Surely you're not surprised by this. The "OB" in "Obama" stand for "OBscure", "OBfuscation".

[desert3030]

Why, if you are suprised? This is the way a Liberal (their base) work. Good news is nbanner headlines and all at once everything is "open". When one must use retrospect, the doors close, questioners become racists, hate mongers, and anything anti they can think of.

So ask the question again, Why the closed doors? Joe knows, Joe didn't do the job...real simple, like him.

[Humeskeptic]

I enjoyed the wit of this write-up....unfortunatley, no amount of humor can cover up the debacle that this administration has become.

[Dave P.]

"The VP meets on government transparency today. But that meeting is closed"

After we cleaned this country of all the socialists and communists we will be able to laugh about gems like this. :D

[Bill Penick]

Put about 100 bricks in some particular order in a closed room with an open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates into the room and close the door. Leave them alone, come back after 6 hours, and then analyze the situation.

If they are counting the bricks, put them in the accounting department.

If they are recounting them, put them in auditing.

If they have messed up the whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering.

If they are arranging the bricks in some strange order, put them in planning.

If they are throwing the bricks at each other, put them in operations.

If they are sleeping, put them in security.

If they have broken the bricks into pieces, put them in information technology.

If they are sitting idle, put them in human resources.

If they say they have tried different combinations, yet not a brick has been moved, put them in sales.

If they have already left for the day, put them in marketing.

If they are staring out of the window, put them in strategic planning.

If they are talking to each other, and not a single brick has been moved, congratulate them and put them in top management.

Finally, if they have surrounded themselves with bricks in such a way that they can neither be seen nor heard from, put them in Congress.

[Rowdy Boots]

Of course the meeting on "transparency" is closed.

How else do you expect the Central Committee to function?

Remember, Communism needs not apologize for hypocrisy--it's part of the code.

2012, THY NAME IS FREEDOM.

BIDEN, OBAMA AND THE REST WILL BE KICKED OUT OF POWER--A POWER THEY HAVE ABUSED FOR TWO YEARS NOW.

ROWDY BOOTS

[army brat]

obama DID bow again this trip...
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/11/08/oops-he-did-it-again-obama-bows-before-indian-parliament/

JOE: ..."stand up Chuck, God love ya, what am I talking about..."

[Texas Slim]

Would we expect anything less from Obama/Biden? If nothing else, at least these fools are consistent.

[Christian Toto]

You can't make this stuff up ... the next two years could be a "how tone deaf can an administration be" contest.

[Jubal Harshaw]

From a liberal newspaper, the kind of article that is ignored by liberals.

[Jeff]

And dems thought Dan Quale was a dunce!

[steve]

This guy never grew up. He's like a college student and in his 70's. What does that say about the people in his district that elected him over and over again since the 70's?

[Shaunicus]

Sigh... Anyone else as let down by this administration as I am?

[Jimi]

Bill O'Reilly did a segment last night on "who IS Barack Obama"? Bill said after a year of research, he doesn't know. Well, none of us do.

Barry hired the Seattle law firm Coie Perkins to seal ALL his past records. These records include his original long form birth certificate, passport records, grade school records, college records, law school records, Illinois State Senate records, selective service records, passport records, parental divorce and marriage records and everything in his past that could be covered up was.

My daughter is doing a research paper on presidents and she has all that info. She still can't find the birthplace of Barack Obama. No one can. When he builds his presidential library, the question will be: Is it to be located in Hawaii, Indonesia or Kenya?

When he runs for re-election he will need to deal with several states that have passed laws REQUIRING any candidate to present proof of qualification BEFORE they can appear on that states' ballots.

This is why he will not run for re-election. Whatever he's hiding is so bad it will either disqualify him or expose things that will render his re-election impossible.

Mark this post and review it in 1 1/2 years to prove I'm correct about this.

[Craig Trapnell]

Huh? Everybody wants transparency, they just don't want transparency today.

[F. Thomas Cain]

Biden and Obama live in a universe where what they say and think is the exact opposite of reality. These are two of the most incompetent and laughable buffoons to ever hold the offices of President and VP.

[Susan Grant]

It appears that Mr. Malcolm is truly a part of the MSM, because he has failed to do his 'research' BEFORE writing this article. He missed all the pics of the LIAR-IN-Chief bowing to just about anybody and everybody he has been introduced to on his trip so far.
Stupid is a stupid does, and unfortunately Obama can't cure STUPID with his Obamacare.

[BillyBob117]

I really want to again thank those who helped put the non citizen and joe bite me into the WH. "We The People" on 11-2 told you it was a bad mistake. With their background, how could you ever ever believe a word they spew out.

[Mr. Right]

This is what happens when your hair-plugs are embedded too deeply.
Insanity, poor Joe, he once had a partial brain, but even those last few fragments of cognizant reasoning are gone.

[Triple A]

And this is a surprise? why? This is their normal mode of operation. We don't need to know what they are up to, after all they know more what is good for us than we would ever know.

[DixieRecht]

If Bush had done this it would have been heralded as some form of government malfeasance. However with this crew, it is no real surprise. They say one thing, do another. Biden is the biggest joke of a politician, gaffe prone to the degree he makes 'Bushisms' look intelligent. But the difference? The left-leaning media protect him.

Let's realize one thing: the populace recognizes the current administration for what it is, i.e., detached, aloof, spending without limit and totally unqualified for the position they hold.

[brio]

I guess we need Mr. Gibbs and his foot blocking the door to give access to reporters on this meeting. Too bad Mr. Gibbs is still on the Asian Reconciliation Tour with Mr. Obama to help Mr. Biden with protocol.