Will Joe Biden be the broker in chief for the next 2 years?

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

The pubs hate Obama more than anything, and he hates them, but to avoid a complete meltdown, will Obama call on Joe and his connections to do a lot of wheeling and dealing on his behalf?

I think so......big time.

[Bacon King]

How many connections does Joe really have left, after six years of twiddling his thumbs?

[Bigby]

Wait, Biden is actually useful? Since when?

[Bacon King]

Wait, Biden is actually useful? Since when?

He was the point-man for negotiating the "Super Committee" compromise with McConnell that ended the big debt ceiling crisis. Biden was the only person McConnell trusted in Obama's administration, due to the decades they spent working together in the Senate

[The_Doctor]

Yes. Nobody else in the White House has the rapport and ability to apparently respect McConnell as a Senator or leader of his party enough to actually negotiate with Mitch McConnell.

Of course, McConnell's partisan intransigence brought much of this on, but politics is about negotiating and respecting the other elected officials who were sent by the people there.

This President isn't very good about remembering this fact, especially when it comes to conservative politicians. He's better with moderate Republican types (Boehner, for example), but he's very inept at even contriving basic respect for conservative leaders. Yes, the conservative movement chose, on January 20, to blockade the Obama Presidency (and frankly, that's the point of a democracy and opposition force) but the President needs to get over that and negotiate with them as elected leaders and respect the conservative leaders and by extension, the conservative voters who sent them there.

[The Dowager Mod]

Yes. Nobody else in the White House has the rapport and ability to apparently respect McConnell as a Senator or leader of his party enough to actually negotiate with Mitch McConnell.

Of course, McConnell's partisan intransigence brought much of this on, but politics is about negotiating and respecting the other elected officials who were sent by the people there.

This President isn't very good about remembering this fact, especially when it comes to conservative politicians. He's better with moderate Republican types (Boehner, for example), but he's very inept at even contriving basic respect for conservative leaders. Yes, the conservative movement chose, on January 20, to blockade the Obama Presidency (and frankly, that's the point of a democracy and opposition force) but the President needs to get over that and negotiate with them as elected leaders and respect the conservative leaders and by extension, the conservative voters who sent them there.

Hey look it's "that guy"! lol

[memphis]

The Republicans have never had any interest in making any sort of deals (beyond the absolute minimum needed to keep the country solvent). Anybody who claims otherwise is either being insincere or has been living on Mars since January 2009.

[Maxwell]

How many connections does Joe really have left, after six years of twiddling his thumbs?

He's the reason why there was only one government shutdown as opposed to 3 or 4.

[King]

The executive orders to put GOP's balls to the fire was probably Uncle Joe's idea.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

I think he will be IF he's not in a race for President.  If he's running he's not going to broker deals to keep both sides happy, no way, not with Hillary frying Republican balls daily in speeches.

[anvi]

I think so, yes.  That's pretty much what he was chosen for in the first place. 

[TDAS04]

He probably will, and it will probably be a good idea.