Republicans, and some Democrats, argue that the fragile state of the economy makes this a poor time to raise taxes on anyone — and that increases could stifle wealthier people’s appetite for spending. — AP
Heavens! The ritzy mansion set won’t spend and we’ll all die if their tax cuts aren’t refreshed.
They’ll take all their moolah and go somewhere else to play!
And you can always count on corporate America to pitch in when times are hard:
Firms say Obama tax write-off not enough
The business community likes President Obama’s proposal to accelerate tax write-offs for companies buying equipment and other big ticket items. But it is clamoring for more — extension of all the soon-expiring Bush tax cuts.
“Far and away the most important policy item on the agenda is what to do about the expiring tax cuts.” — the Los Angeles Times
Do I have any bets on the likelihood of corporate America taking Obama’s bribes to US big business tax write-offs, pocketing the money and/or compelling the current workforce to just do more under threat of being fired?
Once it was called the New Deal. Now it’s always the Raw Deal.
A California health insurer got the green light Tuesday to raise premiums an average of 16 percent for 38,000 policy holders who buy insurance on their own … The go-ahead from the state Insurance Department comes less than two weeks after it approved double digit hikes by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of California. — the LA Times
Applying at Harvard easier than getting a job in retail sales in the Dickensian corporate sector
Getting hired at Raleigh’s new Container Store takes a lot more than simply going on-line and filling out an application.
The lucky few who are offered one of the store’s 55 to 60 positions will have to make it through an on-line application, a phone interview, a two-hour group interview and as many as three additional one-on-one meetings. (This for a shit job that pays $10 hour for part-time/temp/seasonal work, no benefits.) — the LA Times
What DD can’t show you is the godawful picture in the hardcopy newspaper, a shot of “recruiting manager Beth Paparhonis” leading “job applicant Keri Jackson in a role-playing exercise.”
It looks suspiciously like making the job hunter sing a happy song. Sing, sing, you must sing for your supper!
Sorry, miss, you’re happy singing was off a bit. We want only the best sales people and only those who sing most happily can pass this test. Next!
Especially poignant because the store sells miscellaneous plastic boxes and container-ware made in China. Cabbage could do the job. But the story suggests that in business America, only the best and the brightest are fit for this work now.
“Many stores and restaurants now use recruiters to find managers,” the newspaper adds.
A few years ago DD made a wry joke that soon corporate America would require every potential employee to have an agent, like the entertainment industry. I never thought people were seriously considering it.
And last, an opinion piece in the LA Times, one entitled “Making the economy work for workers,” by Thomas A. Kochan of the MIT Sloan School of Management, an essay that looks suspiciously like Ted Nugent’s anti-labor Labor Day piece in the WaTimes. Only much nicer, of course.
“Adverserial unions” = bad. “Expand job creation tax credits: “Current policy limits such credits to firms that hire the currently unemployed.”
Yes, it’s so bad to be only able to hire the unemployed for your bribe. You should be eligible for a bribe tax credit for poaching workers from other companies, too. And everyone knows the already employed worker is always better than the one who has been unemployed. It’s only common sense.
“Meanwhile, unemployed Americans stop even looking for work and allow their human capital to further depreciate,” says Kochan.
Yes, you’re allowing your human capital to depreciate!
“Labor Day is the perfect time for all Americans to call for bold actions — backed by research [mine] — like these to solve the jobs crisis,” the man proclaims.
We’re gonna pull ’em outta cars
And dip ’em in some tar — The Patriotic Class War Song
Since DD blog is on Yahoo, I get a daily dose of the sites “news department.”
Everyday there’s stuff on “hot jobs,” or “how to get a job,” or how you probably f—– up your resume, your interview and life. And after being out of work so long you’re hardcore unemployable, so pay someone for ersatz reintegration and skills training now.
It’s part of an industry of parasitism, one designed to make money from those who have little but who also happen to be looking fruitlessly for work in a wrecked economy.
One facet, for example, is the current job fair.
“Job fairs” are now places where you go to find an opportunity to give your money to an assortment of lampreys and hagfish. Five hundred dollars down and we’ll train you to be able to work in an insurance office, no guarantee of work or placement though, buddy.
What years ago started out as a way to launch people into work is simply turned over to parasite businesses which thrive on unemployment and desperation, psychologically and financially chiseling the afflicted.
Believe it or not, there are even state government training courses to teach the unemployed how to be unemployment counselors.
However, even the readers know it’s a joke. In the broke economy, the jobless are not actually able to run out and invest in a four-year college degree for Yahoo’s hottest jobs. Over the weekend, the hot jobs were financial analysts (you know, the bankster industry) and teachers.
Today, it’s nurses, accountants and software engineers.
Tomorrow it will be bedpan technicians or windmill repairmen. Do you like mucous and/or great heights?
The best quotes are in the comments, where nobody is really buying the horseshit as practical or even good.
The fastest growing market in the recession is in the market of buying lots of goods at bargain basement prices. I have a 6 month leave from my employer, and had the means to move and just shop for the time being. This guy at the table next to [me] bought a T-shirt at OLD NAVY for 49 cents. For the consumer with means the recession [is] like a permanent sale.
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Americans do not appreciate their industrial heritage. Their shrinking industrial base. We have invented massive numbers of products and inventions now taken for granted. What happened?
What our kids see on TV is models, lawyers, cooks, entertainment elite, sports rich. They do not see reality.
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We now have a government that is closer to the labor unions than any government in the last 50 years. You show me one industry other than government employees that is heavily unionized and survives and grows jobs. It dont happen.
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If you buy foreign cars and foreign refrigs and other high ticket items you are part of the problem. You are not the greedy corporation sending jobs overseas.
If you want prosperity for your children – then understand that we need a industrial base. Right here in the USA
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Well that is great for a young person…What Jobs are avilable for people between 50 and 62 ( before the Republicans raise the retirement age ) supposed to be avilable???
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My grandfather worked in the mines. My father was a life long dairy farmer. What happened to these jobs?
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I do not know where they got the information. I do not see any hiring for accountants and auditors. I have been looking work as an accountant for two years, and I have not heard the word, you are hired. Companies have been shipping work to overseas.
And here, another fitting musical one-minute interlude from US of Fail:
However, since you’ve followed — along with me — Ted’s trek through the casinos and fairgrounds of the hinterlands this summer, these quotes will surely amuse:
I joyfully bring you a glowing report as I wrap up my tour across America 2010, where nightly, all summer long, I have been privileged to meet with great, hardworking and hard-playing American families from every imaginable walk of life in 68 cities. I share with you a powerful, united message of unstoppable good will, decency, indefatigable, positive spirit and a herculean work ethic that is absolutely dedicated to bringing America back from this embarrassing brink of unaccountable upside-down government gone mad.
Does that “good will” and “decency” include all the gratuitous profanity, so much they condemned you in Kennewick, WA? And Iowa, Ted?
Not exactly bastions of depraved liberal thought.
Ted continues:
It is overtly obvious that conservatives want an accountable, limited government to secure our borders, win the war against terror, have a victory strategy instead of an exit strategy, and take care of our heroes of the U.S. military.
I conduct daily interviews in city after city with brilliant historians, educated thinkers, clever leaders and thoughtful strategizers …
Overtly obvious, huh?
Copy-editors again forced to hide their lights under bushel baskets.
Now to the nitty-gritty.
Ted says he conducted interviews with brilliant historians and such, day after day, on his summer tour. “Educated thinkers” aplenty at the Benton Franklin Fair, Nemeier’s Rib Shack in Ft. Smith, Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa and the Donna Corn Maze.
If I were an editor at the WaTimes I’d want my money back from Ted. As he’s left the thoughts of all these unnamed brilliant people, if you even believe him, out of every single column he’s written.
I write this as someone who still thinks Ted Nugent is one of the great rock ‘n’ roll guitarists.
Go back to Spirit Wild Ranch in Waco, TX, Ted — now that your tour’s over. Don’t answer any tough questions.
Good news, lads! Good news! They’ve made The Making of The Claw into a supermovie.
Today’s Culture of Lickspittle vignette comes from the outpour of huzzah for Danny Boyle’s latest pic, 127 Hours, a movie on Aron Claw Ralston and his amputation.
You may have forgotten the name but movie critics at all the big metropolis papers, and their features editors, will guarantee you get the full story. You’ll recall, the hiker who forgot to tell people where he was going, got trapped under a boulder, and cut off his arm with a knife to get out of it.
It was the best career move he ever made. Which we’ll get to in a minute.
First, the Cult of Lickspittle quote, from today’s LA Times Calender section:
[Danny Boyle] says that while it’s easy to look at Ralston’s story as the unimaginable demonstration of superhumanism, he believes that we are all capable of doing the same thing if the situation demanded it.
Unimaginable superhumanism.
I’m sure it seems that way to movie critics at Telluride. After all, it’s where the fancy and fine people go to gasp at the nausea provoking repackaged as inspirational.
Ralston’s story is many things. Something I’d not want to read at length or see a movie about are two of them.
It also seems to be a lesson, albeit an unfortunately cynical one.
If you happenstance yourself into a deadly misadventure and survive in a grotesque fashion, and can get it onto 60 Minutes, because of the pure titillating nature and freakishness of it, your ship just came in.
Today’s entertainment news amusement concerns the idolatry for Aron “The Claw” Ralston. Dick Destiny blog didn’t know his name, and it wagers others do not either, but it does remember him as the hiker who went into a canyon, had his hand trapped under a boulder, and a few days later cut off his forarm with a Swiss Army knife or Gerber multi-tool or something.
Of this it can be certain, he was stupid but gutsy. He didn’t tell anyone where we was going and when he would be back, a simple enough way to have avoid cutting his arm off when he got into trouble.
Anyway, the Los Angeles Times Calendar section informs Ralston is a semi-celebrity, a pitchman for beer as well as a corporate motivational speaker. One can imagine the hilarity of a Ralston-led inspirational seminar for corporate crooks.
Ralston: “Remember, if you’re really in trouble because of shitty decisions, you have the steel within you to cut off your arm and completely distract everyone from your lack of management skill or ethical lapses! I did it! You can too!”
[Crowd of dumb white men in suits, who look all alike, erupts!]
However, maybe it’s not that motivating. Ralston could say something like this: “I’m convinced that being able to cut off my arm with a pen knife was a miracle and that it was given to me to share with other people!”
From the crowd: “What, your amputated forarm? You brought it along?”
Come to think of it, Ralston did almost say that. It was in the newspaper but I juiced it a little.
Ralston is also known to friends as Captain Fun Hog for his risk-taking and after making the rounds of the newsmedia with his nub healed over, he wrote a book proposal. The title was not “Buy This Book Or I’ll Cut Off My Other Arm” but the less insouciant, “Between a Rock and a Hard Place.” The Times informed The Claw received a six-figure advance and it is now a bestseller.
The Claw also is a pitchman for Miller beer. “The guy cut off his own arm to save his life,” said a fugelman from Miller. “He knows how men need to act.” Now, Dick Destiny has always enjoyed Miller but no matter how much consumed has never been inspired to cut off a forarm with a pen knife. On the other hand, “Enough Miller and you won’t mind amputation” has an unusual zip to it. (Or, “Miller — your select choice before lifesaving self-surgery.”)
The Los Angeles Times reported that Ralston would never again repeat his hiking mistake. One reckons this is a sincere claim, as it would be tough to cut off the other forarm with only the old stump available to hold a cutting tool. It can be conceded that there is always the wild animal caught in a steel trap procedure: Gnaw it off. That would be good for another book.
It is said, Ralston has spoken to disabled veterans: “If your arm is trapped under the twisted wreckage of the Hummer. . . Oh wait, that’s not quite the same. Forget I said it.”
Ricin is a poison. Since 9/11, the now turned parasitic US bioterror defense industry, which runs on taxpayer dollars, has worked hard to convince that it’s a horrible threat in the hands of terrorists.
Ricin, while very toxic, simply isn’t quite poisonous enough. And it isn’t a cake walk to purify it from castor seeds, although making castor mash is a fairly common activity.
DD has written about this at length previously. Just see the “Ricin Kooks” tab at right.
Historically, the only people in the US who fiddle with castor seeds are nuts from the extreme right fringe — neo-Nazis and those endeavoring to turn their living rooms into bunkers lest the tyrannical government come for them — to those harboring the impulse to destroy their spouses.
Two recent cases in the news, the first from Everett, WA, where a man named Jeffrey Marble had it in for his wife. He beat her with a barbell and was convicted and sent over on that charge.
A jury on Wednesday quickly convicted an Everett man in the barbell beating of his wife last year.
A Sept. 8 sentencing date was set for Jeffery C. Marble, 49. He faces a standard sentencing range of 11 to nearly 14 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Federal agents weren’t far behind after ricin was found in the home and tests later showed the woman had been exposed to the toxin.
That information didn’t reach jurors. Any testimony about the ricin would have been too prejudicial to the defendant, who was on trial for an assault, Superior Court Judge Gerald Knight ruled earlier in the trial.
It’s against federal law to possess or manufacture ricin. FBI agents and federal prosecutors continue to investigate.
“It’s still pending with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office,” Shapiro said.
Marble allegedly told police he’d looked up recipes to turn castor seeds into ricin. He used a mortar and pestle to grind up the seeds in the family home but denied using it on his wife, according to court papers.
Marble told investigators he used the seeds to poison mountain beavers and moles, but it didn’t seem to be working.
Another case involves the typical perpetrator, this time from a suburb of Chicago. Edward Bachner will eventually be sent over for buying up purified tetrodotoxin, a nerve poison extracted from puffer fish.
This, also in a case seemingly aimed at poisoning his wife, coupled with the white kook’s fetish for accumulating weapons — including castor powder.
The FBI arrested Bachner June 30, 2008, after he arrived at a UPS Store to pick up vials of TTX he had ordered from a company in New Jersey. Authorities said a search of his home on the 5700 block of McKenzie Drive later uncovered 45 full or partially full vials of the poison along with evidence he had obtained at least 19 more vials that were missing. Agents also found a handgun, more than 50 knives, five garrotes, a phony CIA badge, a precursor to the poison Ricin and books on how to poison people, make gun silencers and hand-to-hand combat, a federal prosecutor said. Bachner also faces charges he tried over the Internet to hire someone to kill his wife in 2005. Authorities questioned Bachner about that incident in 2006, but did not press charges at the time.
Ricin will never be used as a WMD. While there may be wishful thinking in this matter, it just isn’t going to happen. Science, history and precedent don’t support the conclusion. The castor plant has co-existed with man for a long time, not only as a renewable crop but also as a decorative ornament.
People who have castor plants don’t have WMDs in the garden. And castor oil pressing plants aren’t biochemical weapons depots.
Nevertheless, the US government sends taxpayer money to a small portion of the bioterror defense industry every year — for the purpose of defense against ricin.
Most of it goes to a virtually valueless company known as Soligenix, part of the infamous Alliance for Biosecurity.
Soligenix, which used to known as DOR Biopharma — the name change presumably made to camouflage it from potential investors — has been working on a ricin vaccine ever since 9/11.
And it regularly tries to pump its worth by issuing press releases on its products, which have never quite made it to market.
Indeed, the only people who actually may need a ricin vaccine are those who do research on ricin. And — perhaps — the US kooks who try to make it, along with anyone in their households.
There are currently no effective means to prevent the effects of ricin intoxication. The successful development of an effective vaccine against ricin toxin may act as a deterrent against the actual use of ricin as a biological weapon and could be used in rapid deployment scenarios in the event of a biological attack. RiVax™ would potentially be added to the Strategic National Stockpile and dispensed in the event of a terrorist attack.
Think of it as a type of scientific corporate welfare work for the few and privileged. Perhaps the company will go out of business some day. But don’t bet on it.
This festival has the best logo ever: a big shrimp wrapped around an oil rig like a wedding ring.
YOU MUST SEE! NO JOKE! IT’S AWESOME ! (Click on that link.)
Further:
But don’t get the locals (Morgan City population: 20,000) started on the federal moratorium President Obama has imposed on oil drilling through Nov. 30. “He’s trying to starve us,” one long time local told me at breakfast. Morgan City would dry up with an extended moratorium. Oil companies would flee to the waters of Brazil and Cuba.
All the special people are Tom Friedman’s friends and mentors. And they always have a book or a lecture or a plan to fix everything. Usually after they’ve spent decades as culprits to the current mess.
Plus, there’s the other thing: Tom and all his friends do not, under any circumstance, feel any pain. That’s for everyone else. The rich and famous only advise. All others are told to STFU and eat their peas.
DD doesn’t know why he read Friedman’s column on Sunday. Was it an accidental click? An inner desire for punishment? Had I not enough inspiration to get my daily crank on?
“The Frugal Superpower: America’s Global Leadership in a Cash-Strapped Era??? is actually the title of a very timely new book by my tutor and friend Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University foreign policy expert. “In 2008,??? Mandelbaum notes, “all forms of government-supplied pensions and health care (including Medicaid) constituted about 4 percent of total American output.??? At present rates, and with the baby boomers soon starting to draw on Social Security and Medicare, by 2050 “they will account for a full 18 percent of everything the United States produces.???
After all, Europe is rich but wimpy. China is rich nationally but still dirt poor on a per capita basis and, therefore, will be compelled to remain focused inwardly and regionally.
Mandelbaum argues for three things: First, we need to get ourselves back on a sustainable path to economic growth and reindustrialization, with whatever sacrifices, hard work and political consensus that requires.
Yes, always with great sacrifice and hard rock work for everyone down the line. And then these guys can write another book about it.
This quote from Matt Taibbi describes the practice much better than I can:
On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. If its literary peculiarities could somehow be removed from the equation, The World Is Flat would appear as no more than an unusually long pamphlet replete with the kind of plug-filled, free-trader leg-humping that passes for thought in this country. It is a tale of a man who walks 10 feet in front of his house armed with a late-model Blackberry and comes back home five minutes later to gush to his wife that hospitals now use the internet to outsource the reading of CAT scans.
For Labor Day, most likely a lot of college football, too.
Did he watch the Great Recession on his gadget?
Brad Paisley’s “Welcome to the Future,” coupled with the video, morphed into a public exhibition of his love for consumer electronics, the dancing robot, veterans on sprung metal legs and cute-overloaded children, launched just as the economy crashed for the middle class.
Although you might not know it from the official press, they didn’t care for him in Kennewick, WA. Outside of House of Blues dates in the big coastal metropolises, he played only small clubs, casinos and rural fairgrounds. He was rebuked in Dubuque. And he managed to soil his reputation in his beloved sport of hunting.
On Labor Day, Nugent comes back to his former home — Detroit — to play a theatre gig where he recorded a 2008 live album.
Unionized public employees with their sweetheart deals at taxpayer expense are one significant reason why some cities and states are in such dire financial condition.
Unionized public employees have better deals than the taxpayers who are funding them. Federal employees make twice as much as their private-sector peers. This is all beyond bizarro.
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Unionized public employees with their sweetheart deals at taxpayer expense are one significant reason why some cities and states are in such dire financial condition.
Notice that in this piece he says “unionized public employees.” That would seem to preclude the auto industry.
Ted also kind of tries to separate federal government workers from state public sector employees, before slamming the latter, too. However, all are solidly middle class. And these are the same people who’s jobs the federal government has been endeavoring to save this summer by sending funding to the states in the face of total opposition from the GOP.
So Ted is actually hating on school teachers and policemen in Michigan, too. And if the FBI, or any government agency has offices in Michigan — which they do, all of them.
And he implies that compensation for unionized middle class labor is unfair without commenting on the pay for corporate American bosses. Or getting across the point that one of the reasons non-unionized middle class jobs pay more poorly than unionized has been the profoundly anti-labor climate that has been born in corporate America over the past few decades.
In the past, Ted has also been quite specific in his contempt for Detroit auto-workers and his wishes for their industry. He wanted it to die. It was wasteful and deserved to end.
Taxpayers should not be held accountable to bailout the automobile industry or any other industry for that matter. There is constitutional authority for the decades of poor management decisions, forecasting and labor deals that have put GM, the U.S.’s largest automobile maker, perilously close to going belly up.
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While the [United Auto Workers] may believe GM, Ford and Chrysler are in business to provide automotive workers a salary and other costly benefits, the reality is that car companies are in business to make a profit. Period. Write that down.
The UAW’s costly benefit demands over the years coupled with weak automotive management who historically caved into the UAW’s demands put the automotive bolts, so to speak, to the shareholders and, to a certain degree, has put the Big Three on the path to possible extinction.
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Bailing out GM with billions of taxpayer dollars is the wrong approach. GM is not too big to fail. What GM may be is too unprofitable to stay in business.
The most singular paradox in Ted Nugent’s life may be that his steady decline in popularity mirrors the destruction of manufacturing jobs for the middle class in the US. His music, muscled and steely, was the sound of Detroit and his audience was the middle class. And now, in his older years, the man — shriveled from what he once was — rails against the very interests of the people who filled the stadiums he played in.
It’s tragic.
The final nail in the coffin in Michigan may have come when Ted was thrown off the bill of the Muskegon [Michigan] Summer Celebration a few years ago for being his usual mean old self. This was a big thing.
The show was an $80,000 gig and while Nugent was eventually paid in a breach of contract suit, the fallout from it hurt him. (DD has discussed that case here.)
Nugent eventually left Michigan for Waco, Texas. And while assorted cream puff music journalists have asked Ted this summer whether he might run for political office, given his views, he’s unelectable wherever there is still an informed middle class. Even in this toxic climate. And that rules out almost his entire old home state. Ted knows it, too.
Ted Nugent, elected to represent places like Detroit, Flint, Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor or Lansing? Surely you must be joking.
Now, as for Waco or Crawford, Texas? Maybe.
Ted’s return to Michigan for a Labor Day gig has generated local advance press. Typically, no one brings up the very bad odor of Ted’s attitudes and politics toward Detroit.
The only significant item appeared in the Royal Oak newspaper, a reprint of a trivial Gary Graff wire news piece which was published at Billboard a few days ago.
And did Graff ask Nugent about what he thought of the auto unions now, for a Labor Day gig? Nope. That would be possibly rife with unpleasantness.
Again, consider the pure Dickensian character — Ted Nugent — writing an anti-labor Labor Day column while preparing for his show in Detroit:
It’s a piece in which he superficially laments mass unemployment (and taking the standard GOP shot at those too discouraged to look for work) while simultaneously denigrating middle class unionized workers, blaming them for the economic catastrophe.
Ted Nugent’s appearance at the Benton Franklin fair in Kennewick, WA, brought on fear and loathing in the locals. Shocked, they were just shocked — by Ted’s foul language, heard for miles around, courtesy of the rock ‘n’ roll megawatt PA.
Ironically, the fairgoers were probably politically more to the side of the views expressed in the Nuge’s extremist WaTimes columns. Than, for example, the politics here.
The paradox: When you see the demographic, it’s these people in a video from the Beck rally and featured at Digby.
They’re rural white know-nothings. But they’re really nice know-nothings and they believe their children ought not to be exposed to the unwholesome.
And then they’re force-fed a dose of what Ted Nugent is really like.
Ted’s been held up, the entire summer, as someone who defiantly stands for free speech, liberty and family values. And this is usually done in entertainment sections and on opinion pages run by the stupid and disingenuous. With very few exceptions, he’s praised as a prince of a fellow in possession of strong opinions, delivered with amusing and/or charming idiosyncrasy.
And then reality occasionally rudely interrupts. The extremist comes to town. And he’s too strong a cup of tea, even more off the hook than the local more polite extremists.
Inevitably they wonder how did it get to be so mainstream? They need to look in a mirror.
Here are some excerpts from the letters page at the Kennewick paper (note the absence of what generally shouts his obscenities in connection with — the president, other Dem politicians — it’s just the profanity they noticed):
I understand that Mr. Nugent is a hard rocker, but his performance was vulgar and inappropriate for the setting. He said the foulest of vulgarities many times, and even put the word mother in front of it once before I left during the third song. There were children of all ages in the main stage area … Read more…
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What rock did they find Ted Nugent under? I am very angry at the choice of words used during his concert. I understand that Ted Nugent is like this — but at a fair with children? Were they so desperate to have Ted that they couldn’t put a few rules in place and remember their own mission statement. More …
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I have never been so astonished and mad as I was on the evening of Aug. 26 when my wife and I attended the Benton Franklin County Fair.
Ted Nugent was performing (?) onstage, cursing, shouting obcenities, screaming at the top of his voice, etc. All while in the presence of many young children.
Ted Nugent stands for freedom and liberty! I must say, if the f-bomb is all you heard, then maybe it was all you were choosing to hear. Because I heard him thanking the men and women of the military who fight for this country and defend our freedom with their lives! I also heard him stand up for the American people and this great country!
Didn’t Joe Biden whisper in President Obama’s ear for all to hear on TV, “This is a big f-ing deal!” More …
