Biden: To prevent bankruptcy, we must spend more money

There’s no doubt that Vice President Joe Biden is the Dan Quayle of the 21st century. The only difference is that Quayle’s supposed stupidity was lambasted and excoriated from every corner of the media, while Biden’s multiple and frequent facepalm-inducing idiotic comments are buried and ignored. We have yet another example in Biden’s speech to an AARP town hall meeting today which not only are verbally unfortunate but a window into the mentality that drives the Obama administration. From the CNSNews article:

We’re going to go bankrupt as a nation … Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’ The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.

Got that? So in order to prevent us from running out of money, we have to spend more. It’s like saying the only way to stop running out of food is to eat all the stuff in cupboard. A more apt metaphor for government would be to cure a cocaine addict by giving him more dimebags of his favorite drug. When you consider the sheer inanity of the statement, it boggles the mind to consider that this man is next in the order of succession.

Biden’s absurd comments have been pounced on by many others in the blogosphere, which they well should be. Unlike Biden’s other gaffes, though, I don’t believe that Biden didn’t mean to say what he did. Indeed, the comment illustrates that Biden and the rest of the Obama administration are so invested in the Keynesian model that it doesn’t matter how ridiculous their theories sound when you say them out loud. Democrats and the left have only one solution to any problem that life offers – create a government agency to regulate and then throw taxpayer money at it. It’s a tired prescription that, like Biden’s words, makes no sense and will ultimately prove harmful to the country.

Zelaya is on his way back to Honduras

Tensions in Honduras will inevitably flare up in the near future if what the former foreign minister under ousted President Manuel Zelaya, Patricia Rodas, says is true.  Rodas said, “Our president will be in Honduras at some point and a some moment. He is already on his way. God protect him and the people of the Americas who are with him.” Interim Honduran President Roberto Micheletti said there were reports that Zelaya planned to secretly enter over the Nicaraguan border Saturday.

Negotiations were set to begin that same day in Costa Rica, but a return by Zelaya would make matters more impossible than they already are. Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, who is mediating the talks, said that any plan that guarantees Zelaya will not be reinstated is not acceptable. Latin American leaders seem hell-bent on overruling a Honduran government that seems eager to accomodate most requests save for the one their neighbors cannot live without – reinstalling a leftist President who it appears was taking the first steps at setting up an electoral dictatorship a la his mentor Hugo Chavez. And it’s no accident that Zelaya’s return is rumored to come from over the border of  Nicaragua, a nation run by a fellow leftist in Daniel Ortega.

I have a sinking feeling that bloodshed is going to come to Honduras. Zelaya will likely find a way to sneak back into the country and agitate his supporters into rebellion. How successful they would be is uncertain, as Honduras’ military remains against Zelaya, although Zelaya would likely enjoy the material support of Ortega and Chavez. Fortunately, his support among the American Congress seems to be waning.

I hope this crisis resolves itself peacefully, and I hope Honduras is able to maintain its sovereignty and independence. But I see the Latin American country on a collision course with those who want to put back a President it doesn’t want and dictate what leadership would be acceptable to the world community.