Biden Appears To Be Positioning for a 2016 Run
And what could be better than a President Joe? For late-night TV hosts, that is.
President Obama may be preparing for his inauguration – but in many ways it's Vice President Joe Biden who's the man of the moment.
This week, he's heading up the gun-control talks at the White House, bringing all parties to the table and, in typical Biden fashion, making news with his declaration Wednesday that the president would consider using executive orders to make something happen.
The vice president also proved pivotal in the recent "fiscal cliff" negotiations, almost single-handedly sealing a deal with Republicans at the 11th hour. As Major Garrett writes in National Journal this week, Mr. Biden "made or took 13 calls from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky during the weekend that most cliff issues were resolved." He added, "Can anyone imagine President Obama calling anyone about anything 13 times?" It was a reprising of the dealmaking role that Biden played in 2011's debt-ceiling negotiations.
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He might be the only potential nominee from Team Blue that could actually lose to whatever corpse Team Red decides to prop up and send out there this time.