Biden on the Recovery Act: “If It Fails, I’m Dead”

ABC News’ Karen Travers reports:

On a conference call today, Vice President Biden told 30 of the nation’s governors that if the Recovery Act fails, he’s “dead.”

Biden was providing an update to the governors (and if they couldn’t make it, their Lt. Governor or senior staffer) on the Recovery Act and make sure they were prepared to submit reports next month detailing how stimulus money was spent and how many jobs were created by the funding.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) told the Vice President he couldn’t express how much he and his fellow governors appreciate Biden’s interest.

“Pure self-interest, Jay. If it fails, I’m dead,” Biden quipped.

The conference call invitation was sent to 55 states and territories and if a governor could not join, a Lt. Governor, Chief of Staff or other staff member called in. Louisiana was the only state to not have a participant on the conference call.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/09/biden-on-the-recovery-act-if-it-fails-im-dead.html

admit that maybe his state needed the money after all

Glenn Beck: "So now the government of the US is issuing fatwas against our own leaders!"

Palin: "They mocked me, but now Joe Biden is on his own death panel."