Some people think the Senate has made Joe Biden more of a blowhard, but I think he’s always been one. Check out this quote from Oct. 27, 1990, which has to be one of the dumbest things anyone has ever said in Congress:

Cleaning up the mess created by S&L crooks over the next 10 years will cost us the same amount that bank robberies will cost us over the next 4,000 years.

Yes, Joe Biden knows how much bank robberies will cost us in the year 5990.

Update 2/21 4:03 PM: To be clear, I recognize Biden was trying to use hyperbole, not to make a literal claim. But his phrasing is, well, idiotic.