For the millions of Americans who find talk of deficit reduction to be one of the less rousing political subjects, Vice President Joe Biden feels your pain.
At a Wednesday press conference where Obama presented his ‘framework‘ for reducing the budget deficit, Biden was caught on camera nodding off.
The president called for reducing the nation’s budget deficit through a combination of spending cuts and tax increases. He stated his opposition to extending Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy and to changing Medicare into a voucher program.
A reaction published on the blog of Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s office asked, “Did President Obama’s speech on the deficit even put his chief negotiator to sleep?”