Having Sloppy Joe For Lunch

Conventional GOP wisdom was that because of his celebrated gaffes, the VP would be relegated to his own private policy Alaska. Not so, reports Mark Leibovich:

Mr. Biden’s reputation for windiness, self-regard and unrestrained ambition have long prompted some degree of eye-rolling around him and probably always will. But what has been striking to many in the administration has been how strenuously the president has worked to include him and, perhaps most notably, the influence Mr. Biden appears to be wielding.