The Ghost of Joe Biden Bites the Democrats Once Again

"This is a big f------ deal."


No, Joe Biden is not dead; he's probably off in some comer playing with a ball of yarn.  However, the big mouth former senator and VP has a knack of saying things that come back to haunt the Democrats.

For example, when the Republicans, who controlled the Senate, refused to consider the Obama Supreme Court nomination of Merrick Garland in the last year of Obama's lame duck presidency, the Democrats cried foul. Yet, they had to contend with something called "the Biden Rule".

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/us/politics/joe-biden-argued-for-delaying-supreme-court-picks-in-1992.html

“Some will criticize such a decision and say that it was nothing more than an attempt to save a seat on the court in hopes that a Democrat will be permitted to fill it, but that would not be our intention,” Mr. Biden said at the time. “It would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is underway, and it is, action on a Supreme Court nomination must be put off until after the election campaign is over."

Now we are dealing with  the Kavanaugh hearings. While the Democrats are screaming for the accusations against Kavanaugh to be investigated by the FBI, we have then senator Biden  making this statement while he was presiding over the Clarence Thomas hearings:

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/09/25/biden_1991_fbi_do_not_reach_conclusions_when_investigating_sexual_misconduct.html

"The last thing I will point out, the next person who refers to an FBI report as being worth anything, obviously doesn’t understand anything. FBI explicitly does not, in this or any other case, reach a conclusion, period. Period,” Biden said. “The reason why we cannot rely on the FBI report [is] you would not like it if we did because it is inconclusive. They say, ‘He said, she said, and they said. Period.”

“So when people wave an FBI report before you, understand they do not, they do not reach conclusions,” Biden said."

In addition, I would point out that this is the same FBI that "investigated" the Clinton email case. This is the same FBI that investigated the so-called collusion between Trump and the Russians. This is the same FBI that used a discredited "Russian dossier" prepared by discredited former British intelligence agent Christoper Steele to obtain a FISA warrant to tap the phone of a Trump campaign aide. Steele was, in fact, discredited by the FBI itself. They stopped using him when they found out he was passing information to the media. In federal law enforcement jargon, they "blacklisted him".

I hasten to add that it was the corrupt top leadership of the FBI that abused its power to sway an election. I do not condemn the rank and file agents in the field who are trying to do their job as professionally and honestly as possible. But after what we have seen the past couple of years, what can we expect a politicized FBI to find out decades after these things allegedly happened?