Biden's Absence From Budget Talks Miffs GOP Negotiators

Biden's gaffe-ridden absence is a blessing in disguise. Take it.

Obama and Biden always seem to find something else or somewhere to go when faced with tough issues. It must be a Democrat fate look at the democrats in Wisconsin. They were faced with a tough battle and chose to run and hide for 3 weeks hoping the problem would solve itself or just go away. Now they are mad since the legislation got passed without their input or chance to fight.

I have a radical idea: cut military spending (total outlay, including "Manditory" spending) by 30% for 5 years. 2011 total spending outlay is 1.06+ trillion. Yes, with a T. Do that for 5 years in a row, bammo. Deficit gone (interest on the deficit could be funded as it currently is- a capital outlay line item).

I think their is some underlying reason Biden was picked for this position as VP, and i don't like what i am thinking. Enough said.

On the Senate floor Harry Reid said that that the Republican supported cuts were approved the Cowboy Poetry enent in Nevada would not happen. Harry Reid should leave town too.

wow the republicans who make sense get pluses and the dems who voted for this mess get minus

Gates gets it. I think Buffet gets it. Our world cannot survive as anything remotely resembling a happpy place if there is wide spread poverty, and wildly disproportionate incomes. America is in danger of becoming a country most similar to the former Central American banana republics. A place where the few of wealth protect themselves from the majority of the population by controlling the government and living in gated communities with private guards. It doesn't have to be so. If the rich are wise they will use their fortunes working to develop a country in which both poor and rich can have a quality education, in which our infrastructure is well maintained, and decent health care is available for all. In short a far more stable society, one in which the types of revolts that are awash in the Middle East do not become common here.

the bush wars have bled our country financially and of real red american young blood...too bad that Obama is still not bringing our troops home where they belong... the pentagon budget also needs to be trimmed way back to a sensible share of our budget . we are not fighting the soviets now and the chinese own us financially and economically,,,the only invasion we are now experiencing is from Mexico.. and hardly anything is being done about that.

If Obama won't lead, and he sends Biden out of the country so he can't lead, why are we paying these two? Isn't that their job? Wisconsin just passed their bill cutting back on much of the bargaining rights of gov't union employees, WITHOUT THE DEMS. Where there is a will.............maybe Joe better get back to DC......he might find out that he wasn't needed, in the end.

Nevermind that he met them more than halfway by letting them keep the tax cuts for the rich...halfway to the Republicans must mean under their boot.