Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“:
Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”
PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.
Those third graders and their gotcha questions. Richard Dreyfuss is right, we need some civics education in this country, starting with our Governors. The VP is not in charge of the Senate Mrs. Palin, in fact the only thing the VP is supposed to do is sit in a chair there, resist the urge for a public suicide, and cast a vote in case there's a tie, which there never is. You don't even have to show up if you don't want to. In fact besides the tie-breaking vote you'll never cast the only other power the constitution gives you is being the President if the one people actually wanted gets killed. Say in a hunting accident where some uppity lawyer doesn't stand in the way, or from all the face cancer he has.
Now if the President give you his say so, you can feel free to roam the countryside raping and killing every law you set your eyes on, start wars on drunken dares, and form your own shadow government, but only if you have a signed permission slip. Maybe some of that $150,000 in clothes money should have been spent on books. Knowledge books.
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