ABC now has an article article up linking Joe Biden to the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005. I agree that Biden should not have championed this bad bill, but that is not really the point here.
There are several points:
They do say that:
Congressional Republicans drove the effort to pass the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) of 2005. But Biden – who has enjoyed hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from credit industry executives – endorsed the measure early on and worked to gather Democratic support for it.
- However, nowhere does it mention anything about the PRESIDENTIAL candidates, including the fact that John McCain also voted FOR it and Barack Obama voted against it.
Unless I missed it, they have no hint of that, even though they have a statement from:
David Wade, a spokesman for the Obama/Biden campaign, said, "Barack Obama and Joe Biden have real solutions for struggling families in danger of losing their homes because of the Bush economy and abusive lending practices."
- So why the specific hit job on Biden? Is it just because they think they have their first "gotcha?" (To be fair, this one is actually about a real issue.)
- Aren't these the same Republicans who tell us day after day that if anybody lost their home it must have been their own darn fault? Now suddenly they found a Democrat to blame for the bill that THEY wrote?
My goal is not necessarily to defend Biden, but to point out the blatant bias and hypocrisy.
I'm sure others have more information on this, but I was in a hurry and needed to vent!