In the last few days the Vice President - the selection of whom proved, according to Michelle Obama, that "Barack's not afraid of smart people" - talked up a car tunnel that was actually for trains. The ostensibly savvy DC insider - with whom, as Barack Obama bragged, you just don't mess - had to issue beltway boilerplate about "fastidious" stimulus oversight after admitting that lots of people are in fact messing with him.

Though a longtime member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he committed an amateur hour faux pas by telling police officers that Sotomayor would support them from the bench. Which is not totally surprising, given that he's also the guy who wrecked the judicial confirmation process.

Most reassuringly, Biden explained to reporters skeptical about his economic projections that, despite his role as stimulus czar, he doesn't really know anything about the economy:

But according to The American Spectator, when reporters asked the VP to explain how the White House even came up with the 600,000 number, he asked for a pass, saying a question like that is "above his pay grade" and, "I'm sorry, I'm not an economist. My background is in foreign policy." That is so comforting coming from the guy who President Obama tasked with implementing the stimulus plan.

This lines up nicely with the new GM chairman, who says he doesn't know anything about cars:

Edward E. Whitacre Jr. built AT&T Inc. into the biggest U.S. provider of telephone service over a 43-year-career. By his own admission, he becomes chairman of General Motors Corp. knowing nothing about the auto industry... "I don't know anything about cars," Whitacre, 67, said yesterday in an interview after his appointment. "A business is a business, and I think I can learn about cars. I'm not that old, and I think the business principles are the same."

Actually, it turns out that businesses can be quite different from one another. They operate within industries that have unique dynamics. That's why economists and business leaders spend years specializing in particular areas like, say, telecomm or auto manufacturing.

But whatever. GM's got Nancy Pelosi on their side incompetently trying to give government-owned car manufacturers a taxpayer-subsidized advantage over solvent, private companies like Ford. What could go wrong?

References and previously after the jump...