Washington • I get what Joe Biden was trying to say, but I’ll never understand how he tried — and utterly failed — to say it.
Yes, there was a time when the Senate was a chummy men's club whose members, on some issues, put collegiality ahead of ideology. Yes, I see how the Democratic front-runner might want to hold out the hope, however slim, of a return to the days of "civility" when political foes could find common ground. Yes, I know that Biden is still Biden, which means you never know what might come out of his mouth.