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March 20, 2006--"I owe you guys big time," Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) told fire fighters gathered for the IAFF Legislative Conference, as he recounted the auto accident that cost him his wife and daughter, the ruptured aneurysm he experience, and a fire at his house last year. 

Citing the Administration's handling of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina and the Dubai port deal, Biden stated that, "We have become dangerously, dangerously incompetent."  "We need, in my view, a wholesale change in priorities and a wholesale change in personnel," Biden said.  He attributed the administration's failings to "their ideology, their arrogance, and the failure to hold anyone accountable." (partial rough transcript  next >

"Accountability," Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), told fire fighters, is missing. 
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