As the Obama/Biden Mirror Universe Porkulous Tour continues, you knew it would be just a matter of time until we would get another “Joe the Plumber” moment.

As Old Plugs was at a local custard shop earlier today, the following transpired. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin via Weasel Zippers)

[Biden] was appearing with Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold. The two were eating custard there, and when Biden approached the manager with some money and asked, “What do I owe you,” the manager just responded, “Lower our taxes and we’ll call it even.” Biden later jokingly called the manager a “smart-ass,” telling him, “Why don’t you say something nice?”

Notice that Plugs does not even know he was in a custard shop and had to be told that he was NOT in an ice cream shop. He then returns to the manager and starts being the pompous ass he has always been by getting nasty with the manager and saying, “Why don’t you say something nice?”

The RNC for once, had a good response:

Ryan Tronovitch, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, issued a statement criticizing the vice president’s visit to Wisconsin.

“Knowing Vice President Biden and Senator Feingold, it wouldn’t surprise me if they called Biden’s time behind the counter at Kopp’s Frozen Custard a job saved or created in Wisconsin.” Tronovitch said. “Biden probably decided not to take questions today because he didn’t want to fess up as to why Wisconsin has lost over 73,000 jobs since the stimulus was enacted and why the state’s unemployment rate has jumped from 7.7% to 8.2% when it was promised that the stimulus would be the savior to our economy.”

Doug Powers sums it nicely:

In the end though, the custard shop manager said that Biden “had a good personality” — a “compliment” usually reserved for a blind date that turns out to be a double-bagger. In a similar sense politically, it’s also the perfect description for the steaming pile of “stimulus” Biden’s charged with convincing us is a real looker.

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As Bugs Bunny used to say, “The 5:15, right on time.”

It seems to me that there is little to no need for the Atomic Clock to keep accurate time anymore, since we now have a Veep that is like precision clockwork when it comes to gaffes, blunders, idiocy and overall buffoonery. Richard Simmons could make a fortune with the “Joe Biden Leg Lift Into Mouth” video. (Only $15 extra for the Chris Matthews Leg Tingle massage to warm down from such a vigorous exercise).

Plugs did it once again when, earlier this year in a speech given at the Gridiron Club, he disclosed the location of one of the bunkers that is assigned to the Veep during national emergencies.

Here is portion from an Eleanor Clift story at Newsweek about the Vice President’s secret bunker: (Hat Tips to Hot Air and Jawa for this)

Ever wonder about that secure, undisclosed location where Dick Cheney secreted himself after the 9/11 attacks? Joe Biden reveals the bunker-like room is at the Naval Observatory in Washington, where Cheney lived for eight years and which is now home to Biden. The veep related the story to his head-table dinner mates when he filled in for President Obama at the Gridiron Club earlier this year. He said the young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment. The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall. Cheney has emerged as the leading critic of the Obama administration on national security, saying the president’s policies are making America less safe, and if there’s another attack, it will be Obama’s fault. This is tough stuff, but as the architect of the Bush administration’s policies on war and torture, he has a much bigger legacy to protect than the president he helped steer onto the shoals.

As Hot Air notes:

I’m pretty sure that’s not the “undisclosed location,” just an undisclosed location. The Cheney bunker where he spent time in lockdown post-9/11 was revealed five years ago to be a complex on the Pennsylvania/Maryland border. (Or was that just disinformation?) By Biden’s own account, only Cheney’s aides were stationed in the bunker at the VP’s house, not the big fish himself. Even so, what was this moron doing musing about vice-presidential security in front of an audience, even one that’s supposedly “off the record” as the Gridiron’s is

Whatever the case, whether it is just one of the “locations” or the prime-rib “location” that the Veep uses during national emergencies, this is just one more Bidenism that will more than likely get him tossed off of the 2012 Obama ticket, ala Spiro Agnew.

Should be fun to watch.

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I suppose we all needed a laugh today, seeing that tomorrow sort of reminds me of the scene at the end of “Revenge of the Sith” when Darth Vader puts on his black helmet and assumes total control of the Empire. (Not to mention that theme music) Well, there is a little mirth out there at least for now and it came from of all places, Oprah’s show. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin) Who knew?

Appearing on Oprah were Mrs. Biden and her Romulan husband. While they are not related by blood, it would seem that there is a recessive airborne gene/virus in anyone who hangs Biden too long, since it appears that Mrs. Biden is not immune from her husband’s legendary Foot-in-Mouth Disease.

When asked about how the decision process for Vice-President went, Mrs. Romulan had this slip of tongue:

During the taping of the Oprah Winfrey show today, Dr. Jill Biden said that her husband, the vice president-elect, was given a choice of being either vice president or secretary of State.

This revelation came after Vice President-elect Joe Biden told Oprah that after then-Sen. Obama offered the job of VP he asked for some time to think about it and talk it over with his family.

Mrs. Biden interjected: “Joe had the choice of being secretary of State or vice president.” She then seemed to realize she’d said something she wasn’t supposed to have said.

Her husband laughed.

Said Oprah, trying to continue the conversation, “You said, ‘Joe…?’”

“I said, ‘Joe if you are secretary of State you will be away, I’ll never see you,’” Mrs. Biden said. “We will see you at a state dinner once in a while. But I said if you are vice president, the entire family, because they worked so hard for the election, they can be involved … They can come to our home, they can go to events, they can be with us and that is what is important to us.”

Oprah turned to the VP-elect, asking “Were you worried about being number 2 because you wanted to be number one?”

Well, all I know is that if I were Biden I would want my SS detail quadrupled. I think that sound I just heard was a Tiffany lamp going THUD against the wall and the sound of a large pair of shears being sharpened.

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