Transparency Focus Of Shut Meeting

Vice President Joe Biden discusses a new federal program to make it easier for Americans to make their homes more energy efficient, Tuesday in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex. At this moment, Biden is meeting with Earl Devaney, chairman of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — “the guy,” explains the Los Angeles Times, who is “monitoring the gazillion-dollar stimulus and the overdue economic recovery, and ensuring that the taxpayers financing same know all about it. However, no one outside the room will know what goes on in that Biden-Devaney meeting. That’s because the government meeting on government transparency has been closed. Story here . (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Question: I’ve wondered why we make so much fun of George W. Bush & Dan Quayle as less than adequate for high office, when nothing much is said about Biden, who seems to have had his share of bumbling & mis-speaking?