MANIC DEPRESSION IS A FRUSTRATING MESS: Stacy McCain on “Crazy Uncle Joe” in the American Spectator: 

Biden’s behavior resembled the hypomanic phase of bipolar disorder, as he grinned incongruously or faked laughter in reaction to Ryan’s answers, rudely scoffed at the Republican’s policy proposals as “bluster” and “loose talk,” and bulldozed past whatever feeble attempts Raddatz made to halt his repeated filibusters.

Read the whole thing.™

Elsewhere at the Spectator, newfound respect for Jim Lehrer.