Happy Hour Vid: Biden Says Being VP Like Being Grandpa

He would know

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One moment you may have missed in the interminable health care summit yesterday: Vice President Joe Biden declaring that it's "easy being vice president--you don't have to do anything." Fortunately, digging up this sort of morsel is what the Internet is for. The full dialogue, which you can just barely hear over the other noise in the video, runs:

Biden: "It's easy being vice president--you don't have to do anything"


Unidentified speaker: "It's like being the grandpa and not the parent."


Biden: "Yeah, that's it!"

"God love ya, Joe Biden," replied the conservative Ed Morrissey at Hot Air. Have a look for yourself: