The Obama 08 iPhone App

She makes it up as she goes ! But seriously, in school did you ever know a smart ass ? Someone who is derisive and loud? Someone who sidesteps serious discussion and issues by just being so irreverent that it seems to be completely detract the seriousness of a subject and cut off all hope of intellectual seriousness in addressing a subject? How about an appeal to quasi-anti intellectuals? Have you known anybody who is good at switching subjects among 3 or 4 topics and expert in deceiving less than sharp witted people that the behavior is intelligent use of knowledge/tactics ? Sarah Palin has wide appeal amongst "D" students.... Scary !

LOL, he bangs a gavel!

That's the reponsibilities of the President of the Senate Biden did not mention.

Oh the horror!

Meanwhile Palin thinks a civil war general is running Afghanistan and that he thinks the surge woudl work there even though he expressly said he did not.

Sheesh, I wouldn't lard up my iPhone for any pol.

Not even "the" Messiah.

"Not the only time the Vice President has a legislative role."

So what is his legislative role as President of the Senate beyond casting a vote in a tiebreaker situation?

What does he do as President of the Senate?

Can he call floor votes?

What does he do?

And more than that, let's get to the true heart of the argument, do you think the role of the VP should be expanded

"The Constitution says the Vice President is the President of the Senate in all times"

Then what is the point of the President Pro Tempore?

Why to serve as the presiding officer of the Senate because the VP only has 1 legislative duty and that is breaking a tie vote.

"Biden clearly states that the Vice President's only legislative duty is to cast a tie-breaker vote. He further claims the Constitution is explicit on that."

It is his only legislative duty.

Also per the Constitution, the President Pro Tempore presides over the Senate in the VP's abscence.

So please tell us how the Vice President is part of the legislative branch as Cheney and Palin have argued.

"Apparently the US and the French went to war with Hezbollah and it never made the papers!"

Apparently the 241 US marines that died in Lebanon aren't worth remembering to right wingers.

Let's take a look at the Constitution:

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 choose 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."

Concerned and his right wing media are making things up again.

Must be to cover up Palin completely blowing it last night on Afghanistan.

Can we get an IPhone for Concerned in Ohio so he can order some wooden arrows and Puerto Rican Rum due to the fine job McCain and Co, did adding $100 billion to the bailout bill. Palin has posted those items on E-bay.

A little sweet talk from Nancy SF Values Pelosi and $100 billion in slops and those little porcine House R's come squealing into the pen. What Bush and McCain could not do, Pelosi and Barney did by spreading a little slop on the Republican caucus pig pen floor. Please leave your conservative principles outside.

Concerned, the VP IS only a tie breaker. Sure he's always "the president of the senate" but his only responsibility is to break ties.

Ah, I see now, you truncated his quote. Makes sense.

Concerned in Ohio...what of my last questions to you? Until you address those, I'm just going to assume you are absurdly partisan. Why don't you think Biden knows that the VP is the President of the Senate?

Oh look concerned has his talking points.

Here's the whole quote:

Biden: And the primary role of the vice president of the United States of America is to support the president of the United States of America, give that president his or her best judgment when sought, and as vice president, to preside over the Senate, only in a time when in fact there's a tie vote. The Constitution is explicit.

The only authority the vice president has from the legislative standpoint is the vote, only when there is a tie vote. He has no authority relative to the Congress. The idea he's part of the Legislative Branch is a bizarre notion invented by Cheney to aggrandize the power of a unitary executive and look where it has gotten us. It has been very dangerous."

So if you agree with the Cheney definition of the VP, by all means vote McCain Palin.

"Looks like right winger belle took my advice that claiming to be a Democrat while advocating for McCain looks foolish."
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Voting for McCain/Palin is also a way to combat the election fix for corporate mob figurehead Obama.

I'm a Democrat who's voting for Nader, now that the Republican AND "Democratic" candidates have voted to turn the Treasury over to the financial corporations.

Palin got the name of the general and that's general's assessment of the surge in Afghanistan completely wrong.

Right wingers want to concentrate on a silly anecdote from Biden.

"Who can afford a corporate mobster in the White House? Vote Nader."

Looks like right winger belle took my advice that claiming to be a Democrat while advocating for McCain looks foolish.

Way to adapt Belle!

Alaska: Palin Inquiry Can Continue
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 2, 2008

A judge refused to block a state investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her power when she fired her public safety commissioner this summer. The judge, Peter A. Michalski of Anchorage Superior Court, threw out a lawsuit filed by five Republican state legislators who said the investigation had been tainted by partisan politics and was being manipulated to damage Ms. Palin shortly before the Nov. 4 presidential election. “It is legitimately within the scope of the legislature’s investigatory power to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the termination” of a public officer the Legislature had previously confirmed, the judge wrote in his decision. The five lawmakers had argued that the legislative body that ordered the investigation had exceeded its authority.

Concerned in OH

I'm watching yer state turn BLUE

"Ummm... who can afford iPhones?"
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Who can afford a corporate mobster in the White House? Vote Nader.