Asterix said:
What? How in the hell does that have anything to do with the Vice President being "in charge" of the Senate? The VP isn't, at best they are a final arbitrator. You completely dodged my question.
Let me try once more.
1) The Vice-President of the U.S. is the President (presiding officer) of the U.S. Senate.
2) The Office is principally defined in Article I - the Legislative Article
although it is referred to in other places such as the XII Amendment, the XX Amendment and the XXV Amendment.
3) The sole provisions relating to the Vice-President in Article II were repealed by the XII Amendment.
4) Presiding officer does not mean dictator, but the presiding officer does enforce the rules of procedure.
5) If the Vice-President so chooses they can preside over the Senate at any time it is in session.
If you choose to see the above as not being "in charge" of the Senate, sobeit. I don't believe that "in charge" means lording it over, nor do I believe that Governor Palin meant it that way. This hatred of the woman really has reached the point of utter ridiculousness.
I note that there wasn't a long thread on TERB when Senator Biden didn't even give the proper article of the U.S. Constitution during the vice-presidential debate. Of course if that had been Governor Palin, yet more evidence of how utterly unfit for office. . . to put it mildly there seems a double standard.