It’s officially Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, the 2018 edition, where the jabs are happening behind the other person's back though very much in the public eye. On Tuesday, Joe Biden lashed out at Trump during a speaking engagement at the University of Miami referencing the ...read more
This morning, New Yorker reporter Jane Mayer published a summation of Christopher Steele and his investigation into Donald Trump that culminated in BuzzFeed leaking his dossier to the press shortly before Trump's inaugural last year. It is the most thorough article that I have ...read more
In a perfect world, Virginia's election for governor tomorrow, between Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie, would not even be close. Gillespie has stoked the flames of racist Virginians with dog-whistle ads chastising NFL protestors, utilizing Latino gang members ...read more
Former Vice President Joe Biden penned a stirring op-ed in The Atlantic yesterday, calling on all conscientious Americans to go to battle for ‘the soul of this nation’. As he sees it, the dark forces of fascism, xenophobia and hate are on the rise in response to the “giant steps ...read more
After what appeared to be a timeout for president Trump's perpetually lying PR flak, Kellyanne Conway returned to the Twittersphere to do what she does best -- deflect attention away from herself and Donald Trump, lie, and smear Hillary Clinton. Conway has been noticeably absent ...read more
Today, CNBC broke the story that Vice President Joe Biden will be running for president in 2020. In a somewhat cryptic statement to a small group of reporters, he was quoted as saying the following: "Yeah, I am. I am going to run in 2020," Biden said when asked if he would run ...read more
Earlier today, Donald Trump, never one to approach any subject at all with nuance or tact, implied that U.S. military vets suffering from PTSD "aren't strong." In general, this is a fucking unconscionable comment. From Trump, however, it's Monday. This is the same person after ...read more
President Obama joked on Saturday that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump are doing wonders for his approval ratings, but now that it's just Trump, Obama is positively on fire. At a USO event yesterday, Obama earned an extended cheer from the crowd when David Letterman joked about another ...read more
(Photo: Jim Watson/Getty Images) Andrea Tantaros is by far my favorite running gag at Fox News. She's not an A-list hack like Eric Bolling or the any of the dingbat triptych on Fox & Friends, which means that she's more prone to spout angry nonsense in an effort to catch the ...read more
Well, the wait is finally over. On Wednesday afternoon, Vice President Joe Biden took to the Rose Garden at the White House to announce that he will not be running for president after all. While the beloved Veep cited a closing timing window as his reason for bowing not-in, I ...read more
The narrative of the troubled Hillary Clinton campaign has reached peak media wattage this week, buttressed by continued coverage of Senator Bernie Sanders' surging popularity in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, but a new poll out this week also demonstrates ...read more
The short answer: I'm not convinced. If you're a liberal, you may have felt a disturbance in the Force Wednesday, as if millions of voices cried out at once, and then jizzed into millions of pants. At least one Alaskan salmon was even affected. That disturbance came courtesy of ...read more
Eyebrows are a-raising at the prospect of a presidential run by current Vice President Joe Biden, and on Monday, those eyebrows went into orbit over speculation about President Obama's regularly-scheduled weekly private lunch with the Veep, and some expressions of support from ...read more
Amid all the consternation over the letter that 47 Republican Senators wrote to the leaders of Iran in order to scuttle a nuclear arms deal, there was heavy speculation about a possible violation of something called the Logan Act. While the White House was happy to stand by and ...read more
Following a week dominated by deadly headlines for Senate Republicans over their "Dear Mullahs" letter, the White House delivered a flying elbow to the so-called "47 traitors" over the weekend by sending them a letter of their own. On Saturday night, White House Chief of Staff ...read more
Before this week, the Logan Act was something you would disgustedly tell Hugh Jackman to drop, but as of Monday morning, it is the hot arcane law du jour. As a douchier writer might put it, the Logan Act is having a moment due to the 47 Republican senators who decided to send the ...read more
Contrary to Sarah Palin's barely coherent contention that the Founding Fathers created the vice presidency as something that was "position flexible," whatever the hell that means, the VP has only two roles and one of them is that of President of the U.S. Senate. Being that Joe ...read more
No matter where I go, dear Banter readers, you are always close to my heart, and that includes the White House. If you missed our last field trip to the People's House, feel free to check it out now, because how else are you supposed to follow the plot of the sequel? My week ...read more
The latest atrocity by ISIS, the murder of Steven Sotloff, has many Americans losing patience with President Obama's measured approach to the group, even those who completely agree with it. While the President has called ISIS a "cancer," and said that our objective is to ...read more
Last month, 108 year-old Women's Army Corps veteran Lucy Coffey, America's oldest living female World War II veteran (she's three days younger than the oldest living vet, Richard Overton), realized a lifelong dream when she came to Washington, D.C. to visit the Women in Military ...read more
Right now, Hillary Clinton is as sure a lock as there's ever been to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2016, but if you thought she squandered inevitability in 2008, you ain't seen nothing yet. Up until recently, I've had to roll my eyes any time some media idiot ...read more
It's a story that fans of Onion Joe Biden will wish is true. And it is... maybe. According to conservative Ronald Kessler in his upcoming book, The First Family Detail, the Vice President likes to go swimming stark-ass naked, writing, “Agents say that, whether at the vice ...read more
Having written not one, but two posts about Joe Biden in four days, I was going to leave the guy alone for a bit, but there's a profile on the Vice President in the latest New Yorker with a nugget just too awesome to ignore. On the heels of the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jet ...read more
On Thursday night, Vice President Joe Biden went on an inexplicable Twitter rant that led us here at The Daily Banter to wonder if he was back on the Hennessy wagon. The tweets have since been deleted, but not before we were able to screen-shot 13 of them that, in our opinion, ...read more
Vice President Joe Biden took aim at Sith Lord Dick Cheney on Wednesday at a gathering of young progressives, slamming his predecessor for insisting that the military budget "ought to be our top priority for spending. Not food stamps, not highways, or anything else." In his ...read more
One of the greatest gifts I ever gave myself was a filter for all the political donation emails I receive on an almost hourly basis. They are truly the bane of any generous liberal who was dumb enough to once donate $5 to a campaign or sign a petition. But as I went to delete ...read more
Thursday is finally here and instead of sifting through inane "Throw Back Thursday" photos of your friends' selfies from last year, you can treat yourself to some interesting news instead.1. Chris Christie 2016 Speculation: Let the Frenzy Begin Chris Christie was reelected this ...read more
Here's what you should be reading today instead of being pissed that it's Monday again:1. Biden Time If you figured that Joe Biden was just going to step aside and let Hillary Clinton be the Chosen One in 2016, you seriously don't know Joe Biden. Also, why the fuck are we even ...read more
As many people around the world celebrate Easter, I have some thoughts to share about some contradictions about faith and the holiday (and not the obvious ones about how nothing we do in the United States to celebrate the holiday has anything to do with its origins, I mean I ...read more
After what seemed like a decade of 24/7 coverage of the Republican 2012 primary process, news has come out that there are still untold stories. Apparently, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum negotiated to team up against Mitt Romney. Ok, this doesn’t sound like a one meeting kind ...read more
I feel like the gun control debate often comes down to something eerily similar to that old beer commercial where fans of the beverage either supported the first or second claim and argued about it. The Second Amendment reads:A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the ...read more
By now you probably have heard that President Obama signed 23 executive orders on gun safety. You might also have heard Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) comments that by signing them, President Obama morphed himself into King Obama and that he plans to introduce legislation to nullify ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From The New York Times:President Obama this week will embrace a comprehensive plan to reduce gun violence that will call for major legislation to expand background checks for gun purchases and lay out 19 separate actions the president could take ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Reuters:Vice President Joe Biden butted heads with the powerful National Rifle Association on Thursday in his drive to reduce U.S. gun violence, drawing complaints from the lobby group that the White House is trying to limit constitutionally ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From Huff Post:Vice President Joseph Biden will deliver his recommendations for comprehensive gun violence legislation on Tuesday. "There is really a very tight window to do this," he told the press corps during his announcement Thursday. The ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From NBC News:President Barack Obama empaneled a new task force led by Vice President Joe Biden to develop comprehensive proposals to address gun violence no later than next month. In the wake of last week's shooting at an elementary school in ...read more
I was on the Huff Post Live 'Happy Hour' show last Friday night discussing the biggest stories of last week. It was a pretty lively back and forth that featured, amongst others, discussions around the big foreign policy let down of the third Presidential debate, Colin Powell's ...read more
Watching Mitt Romney lie truly is a sight to behold - he now does it so effortlessly that you have to give him credit. There has been a metamorphosis in front of our eyes over the past year. Romney once appeared like a stiff robot, fumbling lines and committing gaff after gaff ...read more
We put out a message on our Facebook group asking readers to weigh in with their opinions on what President Obama needs to do tonight in order to stop the surging Romney. Here's our pick, including the winner Frederic Poag, in bold: (And if you're not a fan of us on Facebook, ...read more
Michael Tomasky on what the President needs to bear in mind when he goes into the debate with Romney tonight:I hope that someone can say to him, “Mr. President, 70 million or more Americans are counting on you. They voted for you, they’re planning on voting for you again, and ...read more
With the polls indicating that the election is becoming increasingly close, it's probably time that everyone re-assesses just how important televised Presidential debates are - at least in this election. Proof? Just look at what happened to Obama's numbers after the first debate ...read more
By Ben Cohen: Tuesday night's second Presidential debate in New York between President Obama and Mitt Romney should determine the direction of the race going forward. There are just over two weeks left till voters go to the polls and contrary to early predictions, the race is ...read more
Matt Taibbi on the vice President's scoffing last night:The Romney/Ryan platform makes sense, and is not laughable, in only one context: if you're a multi-millionaire and you recognize that this is the only way to sell your agenda to mass audiences. But if you're not one of those ...read more
Hands down the best moment in the vice Presidential debate last night was Joe Biden's evisceration of Mitt Romney for the 47% comments: The entire country was waiting for the topic to be brought up given President Obama's inexplicable decision to avoid it in his debate with ...read more
Here's how some of the more prominent bloggers saw the debate going last night:Andrew Sullivan:I have to say that Biden did to Ryan what Cheney did to Edwards in style and demeanor and authoritah. Ryan was hampered by an insurmountable problem on the impossible mathematics of the ...read more
Welcome to this week's edition of The Daily Banter Mailbag! Today, Bob, Ben and Chez discuss the vice presidential debate; their ultimate Vegas president; and Food Porn! The questions:1) What a performance!!! Ryan looked like a 15 year old in there against a very statesman like ...read more
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From The AP:DANVILLE, Ky. (AP) — At odds early and often, Joe Biden and Republican Paul Ryan squabbled over the economy, taxes, Medicare and more Thursday night in a contentious, interruption-filled debate. "That is a bunch of malarkey," the vice ...read more
By Ben Cohen: The general consensus within media and political circles as that Joe Biden must relentlessly attack Paul Ryan in tonight's Vice Presidential debate if he is to make up for President Obama's desultory performance last week. There is no doubt Biden needs to take it ...read more
