Another day, another Palinism.
Now Sarah Palin thinks the VP is "in charge" of the United States Senate!
From ThinkProgress:
Indeed, while Palin suggests that questions about what the Vice President does is something only her daughter Piper would ask, Palin herself asked this very question on national television in July. Apparently, she still hasn’t learned the correct answer.
Article I of the Constitution establishes an exceptionally limited role for the Vice President — giving the office holder a vote only when the Senate is “equally divided”:
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
Moreover, the U.S. Senate website explains that the modern role of Vice Presidents has been to preside over the Senate “only on ceremonial occasions.” ThinkProgress contacted Senior Assistant Paliamentarian Peter Robinson, who also disputed Palin’s characterization of the Vice President’s role:
In modern practice the Vice President doesn’t really control the Senate. … If anyone has a responsibility to try to govern the Senate, it’s the responsibility of the two leaders.
Former VP Dan Quayle was an embarrassment who couldn't spell "potato", but I don't remember even that dim bulb making a third-rate Constitutional misstatement concerning a question from an impressionable third-grader during a TV interview.
No wonder the McCain campaign tries to keep this dunce away from reporters.
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