Ken Berwitz

This is an installment of "Jackass Joe strikes again" that I tried not to write. 

As asinine as Vice President Joe Biden sounded the other day, when he tied the Obama administration's so-called "American Jobs Act" to rape, I decided to let it go.  There are just so many times you can call the man who is a heartbeat away from being commander in chief of the armed forces a jackass.

But he has now repeated the charge, even more directly, so I have to call him out on it.

Two days ago, while speaking at the UPenn, Biden said:

"...the other thing I've heard from my friends who oppose this, this whole jobs bill and this, is this is just temporary.  Well, let me tell you, it's not temporary when that 911 call comes in and a woman's being raped if a cop shows up in time to prevent the rape, it's not temporary to that woman"

Let's forget the mangled grammar, and the fact that if a 911 call comes in while a rape is in progress the rape cannot possibly be prevented.  Let's restrict this to Mr. Biden's ludicrous-beyond-belief claim that there is a tie-in between the latest $450 billion dollar "stimulus package" and rape statistics. 

First, a simple fact:  there is nothing whatsoever that prevents municipalities, cities and states from hiring as many police officers as are needed.  They decide how to allocate their money, and if the decision is to spend resources needed for law enforcement on something else, they are the ones who should be held to account. 

The ugly ploy being attempted by Obama/Biden is to somehow convince you that all money spent on everything but law enforcement is sacrosanct, so the only way to get sufficient law enforcement money is through additional spending - which, of course, is why we should piss $450 billion more dollars away after pissing away $787 billion in the first "stimulus package". 

Could that be more ridiculous?

Anyone who deals with a family budget knows that, when you don't have enough for everything, you prioritize.  But career politicians like Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden, who do nothing but spend other people's money they did not earn, seem unable to grasp this seemingly obvious concept.

In any event, yesterday, the day after Mr. Biden made that comment, Jason Mattera of Human Events approached him and asked if he regretted doing so.  Watch the video below and you will first hear audio of Biden's original comment (the one transcribed above), then hear Mr. Biden claim he didn't say it - while poking his finger at Mr. Mattera and threateningly saying "don't screw around with me"  - and then, just seconds later, hear him completely reverse field and specifically tie defeat of the bill to rape, plus murder and other crimes as well.

Could that possibly have happened?  Could the man who is first in line to the presidency directly contradict what he said the day before and then immediately contradict his contradiction?  Well, here's the video.  Watch, listen, and cringe:

There it is. 

Unbelievable?  No, just the Vice President of the United States being himself.

Not for nothing do I call him Jackass Joe.