Palin's VP Fantasies (continued)
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Palin's VP Fantasies (continued)
| Wed, 10-22-2008 - 7:48pm |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#27313586
Seems like someone has some autocratic fantasies of being the next Dick Cheney.

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"Obviously the role of the Vice President is to support the President, but also to preside when necessary over the U.S. Senate," Pfotenhauer said.
"No, that's not the role of the Vice President," Matthews countered. "You've got it wrong. I gave you a shot, Nancy. I want you to try again. What is the constitutional role of the Vice President in the Constitution?"
"I'm not a constitutional scholar," Pfotenhauer said, "but I've been reading the commentary on this, and it seems to me that people are parsing words, and was obviously trying to explain to a young child what the Vice President would do."
The sole constitutional purpose of the Vice President, Matthews explains, is to replace the President under tragic circumstances or cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate. "It has nothing to do with policymaking, nothing to do with Senate leadership on either side of the aisle," he said. "There is no policy role there whatever for the Vice President...The Vice President has a formal role only. believes, somehow, that the Vice President of the United States has some kind of commanding policy development role and can lead the U.S. Senate. Where'd she get this from?"
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pfotenhauer_cant_name_vice_presidents_duties_1022.html
This video is from MSNBC's Hardball, broadcast October 22, 2008."