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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz

I don't think Biden is that dumb. I think he most certainly knew better, and does. Only he can know for sure of course, but I'd say it smells like a convenient and bad excuse for what almost all politicians do - promising what they know they can't deliver.

That feels like '6 of 1 half dozen of the other' to me. He was dumb if he actually thought the Republicans would let him govern more than Obama, and he was just as dumb/incompetent if he knew those were empty promises but did absolutely nothing to prepare for or control the optics of that inevitable fallout.