• Posted Jan. 2, 2013 12:15 p.m.
  • Is Joe Biden the most influential vice president ever?
  • Vice President Joe Biden’s role in crafting a fiscal-cliff deal that gained approval in both the Senate and the House in the past few days raises his political profile to a lofty new  level.

    Michael Hirsh of the National Journal SAYS Biden’s stature as a vice president has few, if any, historical parallels:

    Over the past four years Biden has insinuated himself into the White House, while seeming hardly to try, in a way that no other vice president in memory has done. He and Obama, both consummate pragmatists though they tend to be liberal in outlook, have achieved something ...

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