So there are rumblings of Sarah Palin being so diluted as to proclaim that the Vice President has the right to preside over the Senate and essentially lead it. This surfaced briefly during the debate, during which Joe Biden almost exploded on the spot when she said it and he claimed that this was a recent idea developed by the "dangerous Dick Cheney" and that the Vice President is strictly there to aid the President in the Executive branch. For all you elite news media reporters and all you Democrats who scream that Cheney and Palin are overstepping their bounds, I have a news flash for you...
Read the Constitution.
Behold, Article 1... The Article discussing how the Legislative Branch functions. For those of you too clueless to understand what the Legislative Branch is, that's Congress. The House and Senate. They work entirely differently than the Executive Branch, which nobody on either ticket has any experience in except everyone's favorite Sarah Palin, might I once again point out. In this article, under Section 3, which discusses the Senate, are these two little gems:
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
Why, will you look at that! It looks like the Constitution itself says that the Vice President is essentially the President of the Senate! It also looks like officers are only appointed for when the Vice President isn't around. The position is quite clearly spelled out in the Legistlative Article. Hmm... Weird. I thought Joe Biden and the Democrats said Dick Cheney INVENTED this preposterous idea? If the Vice President wants to, they can run the Senate themselves, but they can't vote unless the Senate is perfectly split on an issue, which doesn't happen very often. The fact remains: The Vice President is allowed, by the Constitution itself, to essentially "run the Senate", like Sarah Palin is saying.
If we proceed further down the article, we find, in Article 2: Section 1, which describes the Executive Branch, this little bit that also mentions the Vice President:
The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his Office during the Term of four Years, and, together with the Vice-President chosen for the same Term, be elected...
Hmm. The Vice President is mentioned in BOTH branches. Could this, in some way, insinuate that the Vice President is PART of both branches? That it can assert power in both branches? You know, I think it does! But who do we believe, folks? Do we believe someone who's been in government for what? 30 years? 40 years? Do we believe Joe Biden, the very definition of "Washington Elite" who has all this "experience" and yet can't be bothered to check the single most important government document we have? Or do we believe that "silly, backwater" Governor from a State that's "barely a state" who seems to know exactly what the Constitution says? Hmm... I think I'm going to vote for the person who shows Constitutional knowledge. You know, I think I'd vote for someone like that every single time!
But remember, folks... Joe Biden is the experienced one on their ticket! Hahaha... God help us.
This whole fake problem with Sarah Palin reeks of people who aren't bothered to go see if she's right, but they're going to say she's wrong anyway. In fact, the article I saw was headlined "Sarah Palin: dumb and dumber". How mature. All these Democrats and reporters who think this is something to use against Sarah Palin are like little children who cover their ears and sing songs and think that if they don't read the Constitution, it might as well not be there to adhere to. Anyone, and I do mean ANYONE, who thinks this is something that shows how inexperienced Sarah Palin is? Anyone who says that is, to be perfectly honest, a clueless moron who has no right criticizing anyone. But we all know the Democrats and media are already clueless morons who have no right criticizing anyone, but that doesn't stop them from shooting at Sarah Palin through their own feet.
