Nobody Messes with Joe!

Last year HERE I moaned about what a disappointment Joe Biden has been as a vice president:

I mean, what the fuck - didn't we all expect at least one big Joe gaffe a week when we voted for him? When was the last time you even heard Joe Biden's fucking name, much less saw him on tv saying something stupid? Wtf? The last thing I can remember is him telling the guy in the wheelchair to stand up, but hell, was that even after he became vp? What the fuck is going on? Did Obama chain him to the goddam Lincoln bedroom radiator?

Biden has been very disappointing. I was expecting a weekly eyeroll/facepalm from Obama as he stood behind Biden saying something bananas, and yet here we are.

Oh, oh wait...is he waiting to pull ONE gigantic gaffe of gaffes - is Biden waiting to do a Kayne West/Taylor Swift thingee?!   "Mr. Speaker, Imma let you finish, but I thought House Bill 730.b was the best bill of the year...."

And now Alyssa Rosenberg is rightfully crediting Biden for being an asset to Obama:

...instead of being an enormous liability, Biden’s volubility became something of a meme. He made the rounds at Inaugural Balls quoting Seamus Heaney. To The Onion, he was a gold mine. Biden was apparently aware and appreciative of the stories. The Vice President was a perfect subject of cultural jokes, but that in retrospect is very, very useful for taking heat off a president accused of being a celebrity and a lightweight. The Vice President is never supposed to overshadow the President, but in matters light and weighty alike, Biden does seem to have created space for Obama. 

She nailed the Onion thing on the head, n'est-pas?