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Power play: Harry Reid sidelined Joe Biden

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By JONATHAN ALLEN and CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
October 08, 2013

Power play:

When President Barack Obama laid out his strategy for the current debt-limit fight in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this past summer, Reid stipulated one condition: No Joe Biden.

And while Biden attended the White House dog-and-pony show meeting last week with congressional leaders, Reid has effectively barred him from the backrooms, according to sources familiar with the situation.

The vice president’s disappearance has grown ever more noticeable as the government shutdown enters its eighth day with no resolution in sight and a debt limit crisis looms. Biden was once Democrats’ deal-maker-in-chief, designing budget pacts with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the summer of 2011 and New Year’s Eve 2013.

But Biden’s deals rubbed Democrats raw. He gave up too much, they said.

And for that, they have frozen him out — at least for now.

“None of the deals Biden has struck have aged well from the perspective of the Democratic Caucus,” said one Senate Democratic official aware of Reid’s face-to-face insistence that Biden be excluded.


(Excerpt)

Read more:
Power play: Harry Reid sidelined Joe Biden - Jonathan Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com

I Wonder why?
He served his purpose by campaigning in the election and being a useful idiot. It may very well be that he is not totally in tune with the current president’s agenda, particularly that portion that deals with the veterans and military. Too American, too white and too apt to go off script.
 
Yay! The spambot has returned.
 
Biden is somewhere between#25 and #32 in DC power rankings.
His first "conversation' must be against a top EIGHT seed.
 
By JONATHAN ALLEN and CARRIE BUDOFF BROWN
October 08, 2013

Power play:

When President Barack Obama laid out his strategy for the current debt-limit fight in a private meeting with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this past summer, Reid stipulated one condition: No Joe Biden.

And while Biden attended the White House dog-and-pony show meeting last week with congressional leaders, Reid has effectively barred him from the backrooms, according to sources familiar with the situation.

The vice president’s disappearance has grown ever more noticeable as the government shutdown enters its eighth day with no resolution in sight and a debt limit crisis looms. Biden was once Democrats’ deal-maker-in-chief, designing budget pacts with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in the summer of 2011 and New Year’s Eve 2013.

But Biden’s deals rubbed Democrats raw. He gave up too much, they said.

And for that, they have frozen him out — at least for now.

“None of the deals Biden has struck have aged well from the perspective of the Democratic Caucus,” said one Senate Democratic official aware of Reid’s face-to-face insistence that Biden be excluded.


(Excerpt)

Read more:
Power play: Harry Reid sidelined Joe Biden - Jonathan Allen and Carrie Budoff Brown - POLITICO.com

I Wonder why?
He served his purpose by campaigning in the election and being a useful idiot. It may very well be that he is not totally in tune with the current president’s agenda, particularly that portion that deals with the veterans and military. Too American, too white and too apt to go off script.

There is no Biden because there won't be any deals. What is it about "No talks with a gun to our head" that is confusing?
No means NO. Talks mean NO talks. With a gun to our head means with the govt. shut down and the debt ceiling not raised.
Is that clear enough?
 
There is no Biden because there won't be any deals. What is it about "No talks with a gun to our head" that is confusing?
No means NO. Talks mean NO talks. With a gun to our head means with the govt. shut down and the debt ceiling not raised.
Is that clear enough?

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Could this be the reason?
 
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