Joe Blow

I'm surprised that Vice President Joe Biden finds it necessary to be on the campaign stump, after all he's stated Dummycrats will “keep the Senate and win the House.”

Biden was in Dubuque trying to bail out the career of CONgressman Bruce Braley.

The Veep, known for running his mouth, mentioned to Iowans that the administration was given a projected deficit of $1.3 trillion when it took office.

So what did team Obama/Biden do with that in 2009?

They quickly turned that into a $1.4 trillion deficit and this year have pared that down to just below $1.3 trillion.

Progress?

Biden also tried to get those in attendance to believe, "Since January of this year, we've created 860,000 private sector jobs. That's more jobs than George W. Bush and the Republicans created in eight years."

The Wall Street Journal credited the Bush administration with about three million jobs (net) created over eight years, Byron York has the figure at about two million new jobs -- net and National Review says net total employment went up by 1.08 million jobs.

PolitiFact has the private sector job growth at 847,000 through September and an overall net loss of nearly 3 million private-sector jobs since Obama/Biden began and nowhere near the 250,000 jobs a month and 500,000 jobs a month Biden promised in April.

It shows, again and again and again, that Biden is less than truthful and the scientific community is united in that fact.

Biden also claims many of those jobs are tied to 30,000 road, bridges, runway, fiber optic cable projects have been started across the country, including 400 in Iowa.

It's what you'd expect from someone who really believes --

"Every single great idea that has marked the 21st century, the 20th century and the 19th century has required government vision and government incentive. In the middle of the Civil War, you had a guy named Lincoln paying people $16,000 for every 40 miles of track they laid across the continental United States. ... No private enterprise would have done that for another 35 years."