I think their laser is busted.

Via TWS:

Joe Biden, on the stump in Iowa:

“The president and I have had a laser focus on one thing: raising up the middle class … The measure of success of our administration will be whether or not the middle class is growing and the things that allow it to grow, and allow it to feel some security, are able to be put in place again.”

Of course, the VP could have been speaking “literally.”

The Atlantic picks apart Biden’s middle class claim:

. . . Is Biden serious? If so, it sure seems like he shouldn’t be running for president or mugging in front of hay bales.

Pick any one of the many figures about the middle class. Median household income is in the U.S. in the midst of its worst 12-year stretch since the Great Depression. That’s actually lower than when the recession officially ended in 2009. Between 2007 and 2010, the median net worth of U.S. households tumbled 47 percent to its lowest level in more than four decades. And so on. The numbers show the middle class is getting squeezed.

Biden’s exuberance seems to have gotten the better of him here. The Obama Administration may indeed be worried about the middle class, and there’s still a long time to go before the 2016 Iowa caucuses. But given the past four years’ trend and the painfully slow rate of economic growth today, asking to be assessed on the whether the middle class has gotten stronger is asking for a harsh report card.