Vice President Joe Biden is coming to town next week to raise campaign money for Steve Driehaus. With all the embarrassments Democrats have had lately, from one Democratic Congressman resigning after allegedly sexually harassing his own male staff members, to the Democratic Chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee having to give up his gavel because he accepted corporate paid Caribbean trips and failed to pay his own taxes, to the Democratic Governor of New York being forced to drop out of the race for Governor due to his pressuring a domestic violence victim not to testify against the perpetrator (who happened to be on the Governor’s staff), it’s probably appropriate (and certainly ironic) that the gaffe-prone Joe Biden would be coming to Cincinnati for the Driehaus campaign.
Biden himself has had some of the most amazing gaffes over the years. Who can forget the time he urged a wheelchair-bound man to “stand up” and then had to apologize profusely for his insensitivity. Or the time he declared that the campaign would be about a 3 letter work, J-O-B-S. (I think that’s 4). Or the time Biden said that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went on television in 1929 to talk about the stock market crash when, A. FDR didn’t become President until 3 years later, 1932, and B. TVs weren’t around yet in 1929. (Oops)
Unfortunately, not only is Joe Biden gaffe-prone (which is, after all, pretty harmless), but his policies are lousy for the country. For example, it’s not bad enough that he apparently believes that “JOBS” has only 3 letters, but the Obama/Biden Administration seems to be making all the wrong moves when it comes to creating them. During a deep recession with far too many Americans out of work, rather than focus on getting the economy moving again and creating jobs, the Obama/Biden Administration has spent more than a year now focused on the peripheral issues like global warming (cap and trade); unionizing more businesses at any cost (card check); pushing a flawed stimulus package which stimulated more government, but no jobs in the private sector; and attempting to force through so-called healthcare reform which is opposed by most Americans, for good reason. And government spending by the Obama/Biden Administration and the Pelosi/Reid Congress is so out-of-control that the national debt is rising alarmingly, and higher taxes on most Americans is all but inevitable.
Even with Biden’s fingerprints all over these failures, Steve Driehaus has decided to bring Biden to our community to raise money for his campaign. Make no mistake, a sitting Vice President attracts a lot of campaign cash, and Steve Driehaus hopes to benefit from it.
You can help to neutralize any benefit Driehaus will get from the Vice President’s visit. I usually don’t ask for political contributions on this blog, but I hope you’ll forgive me if I make an exception in this case. If you’d like to say NO to Joe Biden and/or Steve Driehaus, please consider making a contribution to my campaign of $25, $50, $100, $500 or even $1,000, or whatever amount is comfortable for you. You can do it online by clicking here or you can send a contribution by mail to: Chabot for Congress at 3339 Harrison Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45211. Send Steve Driehaus and Joe Biden the message that you’ve had enough of their liberal agenda.
As always, thanks for taking the time to read my blog, and I look forward to visiting with you again next week. (By then Biden will have come and gone from Cincinnati, and will probably be in some other liberal Democrat candidate’s district raising money for them.)
Driehaus can have Biden on his side. I’d much rather have hard-working, great Americans like yourself on my side.
Thanks again,
Steve