Ethics

Biden to Attend More Funerals

By Ed Brayton

This is good news, though not as meaningful as some might think.

Dialing back his predecessor's expansive view of the office, Vice President-elect Joe Biden plans on "restoring the Office of the Vice President to its historical role" as adviser to the president and tie-breaker in the Senate, an aide to Biden said Saturday.

The declaration results from an attention-getting article coming from the Las Vegas Sun, which is reporting Sunday in a story by Washington Bureau reporter Lisa Mascaro that the new Congress "will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in an interview with the Sun."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 10, 2008 (boomark / email).