Biden Wants to Scale Back Vice Presidency
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 15th, 2009 5:35 am by HL
Biden Wants to Scale Back Vice Presidency
“While most incoming vice presidents arrive eager to expand the influence of the office,” Vice President-elect Biden “faces the unusual conundrum of figuring out how to scale it back,” the New York Times reports.
He wants to “restore the balance,” as he put it, after the unprecedented assertion of authority by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Said Biden: “The proof of the pudding is in the eating. The Bush-Cheney relationship hasn’t tasted very good. Not a single person you can name for me… Look at me, now — a single one can tell you that the pudding has tasted good. Not one. Name me one serious person, liberal, conservative, Democrat, Republican.”
