Since the gay marriage flap last week, there’s talk about that President Obama might dump Vice President Joe Biden for a younger, fresher Veep. We know from all the (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) leaks that Obama is mad as hell at Biden these days. One fellow at work repeated last year’s rumor that Hillary would take the job, setting herself up for a run in 2016. And by swapping places with Biden — he’d become SecState — Obama could avoid the embarrassment of throwing Biden all the way under the bus.

But I don’t see it. I mean, I don’t see the Hillary part. She says she’s done with electoral politics, and I believe her. She’s had a decent enough run at State to retire with her reputation, such as it is, intact. I think 2008 might have something to do with her decision, too.

There’s something else though. After last week, Obama can’t dump Biden, even if he wanted to, even if he had Hillary all ready to go for the big Veep-State swap.

See, Biden owns Obama now. Biden forced Obama into revealing (further “evolving?”) his position on gay marriage, and in the most awkward of ways. Two-thirds of Americans believe that Obama made his announcement for purely political reasons. That’s an almost absurdly high number — but they’re correct to believe that way.

If Obama dumped Biden now, that number would jump to 80% or higher. With one genial statement on national TV, Biden assured his place at his President’s side.

Do you think an old pro like Joe Biden did that on accident? And what was the West Wing chatter that could have forced Biden to make such a bold play? And don’t you just love a good conspiracy theory?

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John Cassidy reports from inside the bubble:

In my neck of artisanal, hormone-free Brooklyn, the latest CBS News/New York Times poll, which shows Mitt Scissorhands leading “The First Gay President” by three points, landed with a nasty thud. “I can’t believe he might lose,” my wife said when she spotted the offending numbers on the Web. “People are really willing to vote for Mitt Romney? They hate Obama so much they’d vote for Romney?”

“But nobody I know would vote for Romney!”

Some things never change, do they?

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Jen Rubin:

Republican women are out in force in the 2012 election. [Nebraska's Deb] Fischer joins Hawaii’s Linda Lingle, Missouri’s Sarah Steelman, Connecticut’s Linda McMahon, New York’s Wendy Long and New Mexico’s Heather Wilson as prominent female Republicans contending in primaries. With the departure of Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-Tex.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), the GOP would have only three women in the Senate; That number could easily double with this crop of female candidates.

Conservative women — many of whom didn’t even know they were conservative before the Stimulus — have been out in force since 2009, and the birth of the Tea Party movement. This is why the White House and the Complicit Media have failed in the “war on women.”

Women know better, and they don’t like being lied to.

(Hat tip, Glenn.)

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Trifecta: Turns out, America is sitting on another 1,500,000,000,000 barrels of recoverable oil, making us the most energy-rich nation in the world.

And does that ever have the Left steamed.

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No inflight internet.

I’ve only ever had it twice, but already it’s become a necessity.

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Posted otherwise without comment.

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Trifecta: President Obama accuses Mitt Romney of being a good capitalist.

Well, what good socialist wouldn’t?

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Blogging will be a little less frequent this week, but hopefully extra awesome, as I’ll be in Las Vegas for the Armed Forces Foundation‘s big “Salute Our Troops” event.

I head to the airport just as soon as we’re finished taping Trifecta here this morning.

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It’s all-gay marriage all the time on the all-new and all-gay Hair of the Dog!

Um… the show isn’t actually gay. Internet television doesn’t have a gender, so far as I know.

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Ron Paul does the honorable thing:

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said Monday he will not compete in primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted — essentially confirming Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination.

Mr. Paul said he will continue to work for delegates in states that have already voted and where the process of delegate-selection is playing out. He said that’s a way to make his voice heard at the nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August.

He meeds to pass the message on to the Ronulans.

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Trifecta: It’s a catch-and-release program for the Taliban!

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From the folks at Misfit Politics, who are having way too much fun.

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Obama is in the news on the other side of the pond:

In Europe, where more than 200,000 people thronged a Berlin rally in 2008 to hear Barack Obama speak, there’s disappointment that he hasn’t kept his promise to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, and perceptions that he’s shunting blame for the financial crisis across the Atlantic.

Blame Bush, blame Berlin. Whatever you do, don’t accept any responsibility for your own failures.

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Links below in the comments.

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Nobody did silly fun like the early ’80s. Man, I miss it.

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GALLUP: Americans still like rich people. I put the “still” in there because, well, they’ve taken a lot of heat the last four years. And it’s going to get worse.

Fact is, Americans like Americans. We’re a pretty friendly people. It’ll be fun to see if The Twister™ tries to change course on this one, too. “Some of my best friends are rich people!”

Well, it’s true.

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Found on Twitter.

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Apple is reportedly ready to ditch Google Maps when it rolls out iOS 6 for iPhone and iPad later this year. Siri already sidesteps Google for many searches, in favor of ad-free results from Wolfram Alpha and others.

You have to wonder if they’d still be besties if it weren’t for Android.

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Trifecta: What if Obama threw a campaign but nobody came?

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The Twister™ is at it again. Now Obama is touting his “support” for coal — an industry he once threatened to bankrupt. And actually, his vindictive EPA is still busy doing just that.

Of course, Obama himself warned you years ago of exactly what he’d do.

By October, The Twister™ will eat a lump of coal on live national television, just to show you how much he loves it.

Feel free to point and laugh as he twists.

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It’s the second part of Ed Driscoll’s interview with Jonah Goldberg about his new book.

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Barack Obama is in favor of gay marriage. He’s in favor of it in the same way he supports closing Gitmo: It’s a nice thing to be in favor of, he’s just not going to do anything about it.

And that’s fine, really, in the case of gay marriage. His opinion of what to do about it (nearly) matches my own. Gay marriage is a totally new thing whose time may be coming, but let the states — let the people — come to grips with it at their own rates. Thirty years from now everyone, even folks in North Carolina, will wonder what all the fuss was about. And that’s as it should be.

However, this is not a case a progressive Democrat may reasonably make. Progressives believe the crushing power of the state is theirs to wield to get their way on everything from what health insurance people must buy, to which light bulbs they may not. And now we’re supposed to buy, “except for letting the gays marry?” Hell, if the progs thought they could get away with it — and give them four more years on Pennsylvania Avenue and they will — they’d mandate that the Catholic Church perform the ceremonies. And in drag.

So Joe Biden put his boss in a difficult position. Biden said straight out (no pun intended) that he’s all in favor of gay marriage. It wasn’t a big deal when Dick Cheney said the same thing, because he’s known to have respect for federalism, and because his boss was known for at least paying the notion some lip service. But when a progressive Veep says it, prog expectations are raised that his boss will wield the mighty power of state to do something. It’s what they do.

But this is in an election year, with the president losing his grip — has lost his grip? — on the independents who will choose November’s winner. And this election isn’t 30 years from now. It’s six months from now, and gay marriage is still very much a fussy issue, especially in swing states the Democrats need.

The contortions Biden has put this White House through have been a delight to watch.

First, David Axelrod came out (again, no pun intended) to walk it back, and insist that the White House was not, in fact, going to push for gay marriage. But then the next day Arne Duncan walked back the walk back, and said that, yes, he’s in favor. Obama was faced with a Veep and a cabinet officer making an issue out of an issue he’d been happy to “evolve” on, flexibly, until after the election. So then finally on Tuesday Obama settled on a Modified Limited Gitmo: Say some nice things while sitting on his hands.

Needless to say, the progressive Left is all up in arms over Obama’s “bullshit” maneuver. They know and understand the Modified Limited Gitmo, and they don’t like it one bit. Over the course of two days, Obama managed to appear like a vacillating weakling while annoying the middle and seriously pissing off his base.

The word you’re looking for here is “SCoaMF.” But it gets worse. Happily, wonderfully, gigglingly worse.

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Trifecta: Is Ron Paul using his supporters to hijack the Republican National Convention in Tampa?

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