Joe Biden on healthcare summit: "This could end up not being good."
On the eve of today's healthcare summit, Vice President Joe Biden told a hometown newspaper: "This could end up not being good."
On the eve of today's televised healthcare summit, Vice President Joe Biden told the Wilmington News Journal: "This could end up not being good." He also said that if Republicans "come up with an idea that bends that [cost] curve, we'll compromise."
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Woo-hoo! No better way to start out the day than with a fresh Biden'ism.
We've got one for you. Actually, Rick Klein over at The Note first tweeted Joe Biden's latest and greatest and just in time for today's televised healthcare summit.
"This could end up not being good," Biden said of the summit to the Wilmington News Journal.
Now, with most - but not all - Biden'isms there's more to story. But looking too deeply kind of ruins the experience too.
If it were just that alone. If that's the only thing he said he'd be quarantined again like last year while discussing the flu season.
Friendly conversation
But, to the dismay surely of detractors and writers who like writing about Biden'isms, you can tell he's having a conversation here.
"This could end up not being good," Biden said. "But I know of no other way than to just keep pushing, saying, 'Guys, OK, this is our idea. What's your idea?' "
Ain't none, Biden said.
"There ain't no Republican program," but he also conceded that "there's pieces of what we put forward I'm not crazy about," the News Journal writes. You can read the whole story here.
Gibbs on talking points
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was more optimistic than Biden.
"I believe something will come out of this," Gibbs said on "The Early Show" this morning. "I think it largely depends on the willingness of both parties to come sit in a room, put aside their talking points, and instead come to some compromises on an issue that we know is important to the American people."
Americans agree with Biden
The public sides with Biden though. More than 3/4 of the American people think today's summit will produce a big fat zero.
A new USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 77 percent of the public believe that the two sides will fail to reach consensus today.
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