but the thing we also have to remember about what joe biden is doing here, if you re a vice president in a second term and you re not talking about possibly running for president, then you re basically irrelevant. so there s some strategy here to keep him in the spotlight. he has been especially effective, has he not, jeremy, working with congress? well, he s certainly been barack obama s dealmaker on capitol hill. not this year. not that there are any yeah. [ laughter ] and the last big won he attempted to negotiate over gun control, of course, fell apart. but certainly he has played that role in the past. and has been pretty effective. he s been the guy that s actually gone there, let s put it that way. the main player for the administration in ukraine, talked to yanukovych nine times in three months. good point. maybe he can find him now. or get congress to disappear. that would be better. all right. well, we ve definitely squeezed that one for what it s wo
comfortable debating what they re debating, whether it s minimum wage or the cbo reports on the president s health care act and yet on the other side, i m very comfortable as a conservative with my party now having this debate. i mean, it seems to me that we are actually moving to pretty big philosophical debates about big differences between what a republican stands for and what a democrat stands for. i think we may actually have an election that matters this fall. on economic policy, i agree with you. but look at the conversation we just had about social policy and what s going on in arizona. and that if this is in the perfect world of high-minded debate i m with you on the economic, but i think we know particularly on the democratic side, they think they re the way they win some of these races is actually to do with terry mcauliffe. you might go on the stump and talk about the economy but in
there and there are things the president could do, even without congress. if he looked at those ten recommendatio recommendations, he could create millions of good paying jobs for feel of louisiana and across the country. bobby, we ve been seeing over the past couple of weeks, a lot of people watching and on the set may disagree with it but i think we can probably agree we ve seen cbo reports telling us why the policies that the policy is pursuing, one actually causes jobs. and the debate is going to be how many and encourage emto stay home because of the way the benefit structure is set out. that s in their best long-term interest for themselves and their family and then you have the same debate about minimum wage, which doesn t go from the corporations to struggling
i like him. well, we ve definitely squeezed that one for what it s worth. i ll tell you, i think that he s underestimated in some ways because of his jovial personality and his great sense of humor. but he s been a player for decades. that s absolutely right. he absolutely has been. you re right, if he were sit hearing with us, we d all be having a good time with him. yeah. that is his strength and in some way his weakness. you really could argue, though, that washington needs someone you want to hang out with. and there s no one in washington you d rather have a beer with than joe biden. let me correct that if need be he would have one. he s got a granddaughter that s a fabulous basketball player. fantastic.
trip. the new york yankees, they went back to the yankee way, signing big checks to get big names in town. well, the offense is going to be much better. it s actually amazing they did as well, because really they probably should have won about 75 based on their run differential. when you add mccann, ellsbury and beltran, that s a tremendous load of offense. there s questions about the infield defense but it s going to come down to tanaka being able to adjust to the united states. how sabathia gets stronger having lost 40 or 50 pounds and whether he can get back to what he was two or three years ago and i think roberts is going to be terrific closing.