Biden and the "Obama Factor"

On Saturday, Joe "Gimme a f---ing break" Biden was doing his part to sound optimistic about the economy.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday that he believes there are signs the public's confidence is growing in the Obama administration's ability to tackle the financial crisis.

Biden said that he and the president have no doubt that the country will overcome its economic problems. And he feels the recent uptick in the stock markets is a result of the "Obama factor." He said people are starting to understand President Barack Obama has a plan.

...Biden said he believes the economy is also beginning to show some signs of hope.

"Consumer confidence is slightly up. The market is slightly up," Biden said. "It'll go down again, but the people are beginning to figure out that the president's got a plan and he believes we can work our way through this."

...Biden also defended the administration's budget proposals, which have faced skepticism from both Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad, the Democratic chairman of the Budget Committee, called the track of future deficits "unsustainable."

Biden said he believed the Obama administration would address Conrad's concerns by working to lower the costs of Medicare and Social Security, and by eventually taking on a reform of the tax structure. But Biden said he believed any "significant" tax reform is probably two years away.

"I think, for example, that corporations should be willing to give up the loopholes for a lower tax bracket. It would save the taxpayers a lot of money and corporate America would be more competitive," he said.

..."If we're going to grow this economy from this point out, once we dig ourselves out of this hole we're in, it can't be based on any more bubbles," Biden said. "There are no economic bubbles on the horizon. So we have a chance here, and I'd argue a necessity, to reset the agenda and to actually lay down a foundation for the future economic growth of this country that's not based upon an unsustainable bubble."

What's with all this blathering about "bubbles"? The economy is not Biden's strength.

It is positively goofy for Obama and Biden and others in the administration to have done this dramatic about-face. All of a sudden, the economy isn't all that bad.

How can Biden actually say that the reason the markets were up on Thursday and Friday is the "Obama factor"?

What political tripe!

Biden didn't blame the devastating plunge of the markets since Obama's election and their plummeting after his inauguration on the "Obama factor."

So lame.