politically speaking, this will help biden's 2016 chances. even a weak ass attempt by idiots like this will remind the public that biden is still here, and still pissing off idiots enough into taking potshots at him. I bet he will move up in polls as a result. And I bet he's going to exploit this by being all over TV in the next 2 weeks, talking about it, and of course, talking about 2016.
ALSO this takes the focus off the state-of-union speech.