Nick says, “Ok, I’ll be the first to admit that I sometimes pile on Joe Biden. But this time I think he got the short end of the stick.” Then he immediately proceeds to pile on Obama instead, and in the process, goes after Joe Biden for either “going off the reservation” or defying Obama.

I’d like to suggest a different way of phrasing it, that doesn’t smell of partisan hackery. Maybe these are two very opinionated men who don’t always agree. On the campaign trail, that makes things tricky, but in governance, where a lot of this stuff is going on behind closed doors, maybe that’s exactly what you want, so long as they both know when it’s the right time to compromise and when it’s the right time to concede the point.

seriously?
The Obama campaign must be under extreme duress!

Its almost like calling for the firing of the SEC chief, and preempting the congressional bailout decisions in the middle of nearly the worst economic crisis in American history.