Re: He's one of the people who created the meltdown in the first place.
He was a bastard as long as he was part of the Bush administration, but now he's been blessed by The One, so he's a genius, just like every member of the Obama administration. By definition.
Biden officially gained fifty IQ points just by being selected as VP, and now his idiocies are "eccentricities."
Incidentally, Greenspan has a lot to answer for, too.