Just what out economy needs; Joe Biden as the “working families czar.”
Come Inauguration day, newly minted Vice President Joe Biden will add one more task to his job title: working families czar, so-to-speak.
On Sunday, President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team announced the new “White House Task Force on Working Families” — a major initiative targeted at “raising the living standards of middle-class, working families in America.” The initiative will be chaired by Biden.
Other members of the task force will include: Secretaries of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Commerce, as well as the Directors of the National Economic Council, the Office of Management and Budget, the Domestic Policy Counsel, and the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors.
Just a heads up to the rest of the members of this board; if Biden doesn’t get his way he plans to go whine to Obama about it.
Biden said he will have the authority to get a consensus among the task force — but will use his relationship with the president if a consensus isn’t reached.
“If in fact there is no consensus, [I'd] go to the president of the United States and say, ‘Mr. President, I think we should be doing this, cabinet member so and so thinks that. You’re going to have to resolve what it is we think we should do.’”
Like Obama will have nothing better to do than resolve your little squabbles. What an effin’ joke.
