Joe Biden: ‘There Isn’t A Republican Party’

Vice President Joe Biden visits with women who have benefited from the Affordable Care Act at Allen's drugstore and S&S Diner in Miami, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. They discussed what is and isn't working with the law,... Vice President Joe Biden visits with women who have benefited from the Affordable Care Act at Allen's drugstore and S&S Diner in Miami, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. They discussed what is and isn't working with the law, and Biden said, "I think we're finally on track." The number of young adults signing up for insurance in the new federal marketplace is gradually increasing in Florida even though overall enrollment from last month did not increase dramatically, according to figures released by federal health officials. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz) MORE LESS
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Vice President Joe Biden seized on disorganization in the GOP to rally House Democrats on Friday at a policy conference in Maryland.

“There isn’t a Republican Party. I wish there were, I wish there was a Republican Party,” Biden said. “I wish there was one person we could sit across the table from, make a deal, make a compromise and know when you got up from that table it was done.”

“All you had to do was look at the response to the State of the Union, what were there, three or four?” he added. “I’m not being facetious.”

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA) gave the official GOP response to President Barack Obama’s address last month, but Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) all gave individual responses that bore few similarities to the vision laid out Rogers’ address.

Biden was also optimistic about Democrats’ prospects in midterm elections, assuring the House Democratic caucus that middle class voters prefer their party over the GOP on almost every major issue.

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