Enjoying the JourneySpotlight Post: Part I: “What is it exactly that the Vice President does every day?”
October 5th 2008 09:20
Jim Stillman wrote on PoliticalCertainty.com . . .
Part I: “What is it exactly that the Vice President does every day?”
Sarah Palin asked this question and the answer is complex.
The U.S. Vice President’s duties come from the Constitution, statutes and custom. Part I explores these duties and Part II deals with Sarah Palin’s lack of any qualifications for the job.
Before the Vice-Presidential debate, it might be helpful to focus on Sarah Palin’s most candid, memorable and intelligent quote so far may be when she is said to have asked, before being offered a place on the Republican ticket: "What is it exactly that the Vice-President does every day?"
Actually, before Mr. Chaney arrived and spent his days authorizing invasions, torture, the wholesale destruction of Americans’ previously held-to-be –sacred rights of privacy and to be left alone (sorry for the digression), many of the previous incumbents of the office did not speak highly or graciously of the job. Some of the quotations have become part of the folklore of the country.
Click here to read this post in its entirety.
Part II: Governor Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Vice President.
In Part I of these articles, I discussed the role, duties and responsibilities of the modern United States Vice President. These are derived from the Constitution and the 12th and 25th Amendments, Congressional statutes and, to a great extent, custom and arrangements of the respective Presidents.
When Nixon selected Ford to be his Vice President, and Ford selected Rockefeller, the government was divided, with the Democrats controlling Congress. Yet a Democratic Congress approved both Ford and Rockefeller to be Vice President based on inter-branch comity. Surely no one would argue that Sarah Palin is in a league with Ford and Rockefeller when it comes to experience.
Click here to read Part II in its entirety.
Part I: “What is it exactly that the Vice President does every day?”
Sarah Palin asked this question and the answer is complex.
The U.S. Vice President’s duties come from the Constitution, statutes and custom. Part I explores these duties and Part II deals with Sarah Palin’s lack of any qualifications for the job.
Before the Vice-Presidential debate, it might be helpful to focus on Sarah Palin’s most candid, memorable and intelligent quote so far may be when she is said to have asked, before being offered a place on the Republican ticket: "What is it exactly that the Vice-President does every day?"
Actually, before Mr. Chaney arrived and spent his days authorizing invasions, torture, the wholesale destruction of Americans’ previously held-to-be –sacred rights of privacy and to be left alone (sorry for the digression), many of the previous incumbents of the office did not speak highly or graciously of the job. Some of the quotations have become part of the folklore of the country.
Click here to read this post in its entirety.
Part II: Governor Sarah Palin is not qualified to be Vice President.
In Part I of these articles, I discussed the role, duties and responsibilities of the modern United States Vice President. These are derived from the Constitution and the 12th and 25th Amendments, Congressional statutes and, to a great extent, custom and arrangements of the respective Presidents.
When Nixon selected Ford to be his Vice President, and Ford selected Rockefeller, the government was divided, with the Democrats controlling Congress. Yet a Democratic Congress approved both Ford and Rockefeller to be Vice President based on inter-branch comity. Surely no one would argue that Sarah Palin is in a league with Ford and Rockefeller when it comes to experience.
Click here to read Part II in its entirety.
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