Dan Cleary

Cash for Clunkers

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@JoeyBiden Crashes 'Beer Summit', Tweets It

That's right, folks, Sheriff Joe Biden showed up to tonight's much-anticipated 'Beer Summit'.

The media has yet to confirm if he was actually invited.

First, the riveting raw footage. The racial healing was palpable, if not audible:

Now here's a first-hand account of the chat from @JoeyBiden (including a couple of pre-Happy Hour updates):

I just read the Constitution and I cant find where it says the VP has to make beer runs. They lied to me!!

Media not allowed @ the beer summit. But dont worry folks, I have the placed bugged. Will bring you play by play in an hour.

Im in full camoflage hiding behind the bushes with my ear piece in. My bandana is on. Waiting for the beer summit to begin

I've got a visual on Henry Gates. I've sent Jill to break into his house

awkward beginning to the beer summit. They've all sat down. Obama is silent. WH staff has not set up the teleprompters yet

Crolwey wins 1st round of flip cups. Gates says the game is racist. Obama calls Sotomayor who agrees. Crowley stripped of early victory

Henry Gates is currently using a pie chart to explain why he believes Corey Feldman is "the devil"

Discussion moves to Marthas Vineyard: Crowley "Ive never been there", Gates "A lovely place", Obama "It's my favorite state"

Gates has the hiccups

Barack just admitted he called Rosland Capital and told em G Gordon Liddy sent him

Beer summit now talking about favorite Presidents: Crowley- "Lincoln" Gates- "JFK" Obama- "Pol Pot" ?!?!?!?

Obama- "Now that the media has left and the beer is kicking in, why dont we all take our pants off" WTF??

Gates is breaking the seal. Currently taking a piss in Michelles garden

A bird just took a dump on Crowley. Obama blames Bush. Gates wants to keep it as a pet

All of us agree Henry Warnamount was racist for not giving Cherie Johnson CPR after she hid in his refrigerator.

Michelle is yelling out the window at Barack to "Come walk the damn dog. I am so not proud of you right now"

Barack is trying to say all 57 states in alpahabetical order. Gates-"If you were driving I would arrest the hell out of you right now"

Damn that was supposed to be Crowley. Is this really non alcoholic beer??

Barack keeps saying "waazzzz upppp" Even I know that commercials like 9 years old and not cool anymore

Gates just threw up on the table. "I swear to God I'll never drink again if you make me feel better" He had one beer

Things are getting fun. Baracks behind the camera on this

Ok folks, I have to leave the Beer Summit. Ive got to go spend a ton of money tonight so I'll wake up with more money tomorrow. Bye

[Be sure to follow the "VP" on Twitter here and check out "his" blog here.] If you still haven't had enough of the Beer Summit, also check out Hot Air and Jake Tapper's Political Punch.

Top 10 Things Overheard at Tonight's 'Beer Summit'

10. "Cash bar?!"

9. "Who invited Joe Biden?"

8. Obama: "You guys wanna hit Ray's Hell Burger after this?"

7. Crowley: "Make mine a Jack Daniels."

6. White House photographer, to Crowley: "Smile."

5. Gates, to Crowley: "I thought I told you to bring your mama!"

4. Crowley, to Obama: "Is this really your house?"

3. Obama & Gates, to Crowley: "Why do you say that? Because we're black men in America?"

2. Crowley, to Obama & Gates: "Anyone wanna watch 'Good Times'?"

1. Crowley, to Gates: "Mind if I see some I.D.?"

UPDATE:

I was only joking earlier, but turns out MSNBC does indeed have a countdown clock running for this Historic Happy Hour:

Barney Frank Admits 'Strong Public Option' is Just a Stepping Stone to Full-Blown Government-Run Health Care, er, Single-Payer

Oops! I forgot we're not supposed to say 'government-run healthcare'...

h/t: Mark Levin.

Obama vs. Obama: Medicare Cuts

Here's Barack Obama, at yet another staged "townhall" yesterday on health care. He just doesn't get where people would ever get the crazy notion that he wants to cut Medicare benefits:

"Let me also address I think a misperception that’s been out there that somehow there is any discussion on Capitol Hill about reducing Medicare benefits. Nobody is talking about reducing Medicare benefits. Medicare benefits are there because people contributed into a system. It works. We don’t want to change it."

Well, I don't know, Mr. President - maybe people got that idea from you:

President Barack Obama Saturday [June 13] proposed an additional $313 billion in cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and other programs to pay for health care reforms expected to cost about $1 trillion over the next decade. …

About $110 billion of the new cuts would come from reducing scheduled increases in Medicare payments. That would encourage health care providers to increase productivity, White House budget director Peter Orszag told reporters.

Obama also proposed cutting payments to hospitals to treat uninsured patients by $106 billion on the assumption those ranks would decline as health care reforms phase in.

An additional $75 billion would come from “better pricing of Medicare drugs,” Orszag said, adding the White House was in talks with stakeholders over the best way to do that.

The remaining $22 billion in proposed cuts would come from smaller reforms, such as adjusting payment rates for physician imaging services and cutting waste, fraud and abuse.

Now if Obama feels we should fiddle with Medicare benefits in order to help pay for his health care proposal, fine. But he should be honest about what his intentions are, and while he's at it maybe provide some concrete data supporting this conveniently massive source of savings, instead of making numbers up out of whole cloth.

Or are we supposed to just take Obama's word and ignore the CBO analysis?

h/t: Hot Air.

"I Supported Him. I Voted for Him. I Will Not Again."

Via Drudge.

House Dems to Republicans: You Must Use Our Euphemism for 'Government Run Health Care'

Via Breitbart.tv.

Sarah Palin Farewell Speech Gets the William Shatner Interpretation

I'm usually bipartisan when it comes to political comedy. (Example: Phil Hartman's Ronald Reagan was hilarious). And yes, Tina Fey's Sarah Palin was funny too - except it got annoying because many people seemed to conflate Fey's Palin with Palin herself.

So anyway, even if you're a Palin supporter (like I am), hopefully you can appreciate the humor in this bit from last night's Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.

I just hope Shatner does some Obama material at some point.

BONUS VIDEO: "Rocketman"

DOUBLE BONUS VIDEO: Chris Elliott's "Rocketman"

Instant Drudge Classic

Via...Drudge.

(VIDEO): Sarah Palin's Farewell Speech as Governor of Alaska

h/t: Drudge Report.