Joe Biden, Al Franken Hold a Summit of the Powerless

You'd be hard-pressed to find two people in Washington with less to do than Vice President Joe Biden and would-be Minnesota Senator Al Franken.

In the weeks and months since November 4th, both men have been thoroughly screwed by our nation's Constitution, albeit each in his own unique way:

* Biden got roped into a job that the Founding Fathers deliberately stripped of any tangible responsibility. (If Barack Obama wants to model his presidency after Lincoln, we can't help but wonder if Biden will similarly model his own tenure after Lincoln's first VP, Hannibal Hamlin, who declared himself "the least important man in Washington" and sulked off to his farm in Maine, never to return.)

* Franken's problems are much simpler. He'd be in the Senate right now, conducting real government business, if only that pesky Constitution didn't provide Norm Coleman with more legal challenges than O.J.'s defense team.

Which brings us to today's events, wherein the two men convened at an undisclosed location (that most vice- presidential of locales) and held a summit of the nation's token and powerless. We're not sure what was discussed, but we assume that Biden wore a mask the entire time, as Franken traveled to Washington by airplane and thus most-assuredly has swine flu.

Determined not to be completely emasculated, we're told Biden and Franken concluded their pow-wow by appropriating $9.86 in federal stimulus money toward some take-out Arby's.