Posted on 12/07/2008 5:01:46 PM PST by pissant
US Vice President-elect Joe Biden has said he will be restoring the office of the Vice President to its historical role as adviser to the president and tie-breaker in the Senate.
There has been confirmation that the new Congress will reassert its constitutional independence from the White House by barring the vice president from joining in internal Senate deliberations.
Elizabeth Alexander, a spokesperson for the vice president-elect, said Biden would not continue the practice started by current Vice President, Dick Cheney of regularly attending internal legislative branch meetings.
Cheney has vastly enlarged the office's power, even claiming at one point that it had a special status beyond both the executive and legislative branches, by virtue of the role of president of the Senate.
Asked about Cheney’s interpretation of the vice presidency, Biden said: "Vice President Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history. The idea he doesn't realize that Article I of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. He works in the Executive Branch. He should understand that. Everyone should understand that."
(Excerpt) Read more at story.birminghamstar.com ...
Good remark from someone who had proved to be dangerously stupid.
Awwww,. isn’t this cute? Biden really cares about the Constitution, but it doesn’t stop him from working for a Kenyan.
Cheney is dangerous...dangerous to terrorists, their sympathizers, and apologists. He’s also dangerous to muddle-headed liberals.
Thanks for your service to America, Mr. Cheney.
Cheney should accuse Biden of being dangerously brain damaged.
And this is coming from a guy that says that JOBS is a 3 letter word, that FDR went on TV in 1929 and that we are gonna have an International Crisis and have no clue what to do. I would have T-shirts made for Obama and Biden saying “I’m with stupid” but Obama isn’t stupid, he is too dangerous to be stupid. Biden on the other hand is a freakin moron. I don’t know who to fear more, Obama a dangerous Marxist or Biden who is an idiot
Joe Biden will be he most dangerous person to ever preside over the US Senate.
whenever bozo and biden fail,
they’re going to blame the bush administration.
and the so-called “dinosaur media” has brainwashed
millions of americans into believing that the bush
administration is a “failed administration.”
Biden is telling us he will do pretty much as little as possible and still collect a big paycheck, .. plus he will have his retirement check from his old job in the US Senate. He wants to skate ...
Don't worry, Plugs.
I'm sure that you'll eclipse him.
“PLUGS” BIDEN makes an Enbalmed Dead Person look Brilliant by Comparison! BIDEN is the most Mentally Deranged Individual to ever be Elected tp VPOTUS!
BIDEN makes Dinghy Harry appear Dynamic by Comparison:-(
Vice-President Martin Van Buren did a national television interview in 1844 b.c. and discussed the role of the Vice-President in great length with Dick Cavett. The interview was taped in the ballroom of the H.M.S. Speedwell right after it dropped The Pilgrims off at the International Space Station in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
You remember the Speedwell, don't you? That was the massive ocean liner that was said to be unsinkable until it hit a head of iceberg lettuce in the Mediterranean and sank on its maiden voyage to Mars.
Of course, when I say Biden is correct, you have to allow for some interpretations of those pesky little things called "facts".
Oh of course, just watch, a year from now, 6 months from now as we are being bombarded with attacks by Terrorists, you just watch Obama say “Hey it’s not my fault, it’s Bush’s fault” 2 years from now, we have a 20 percent recession, 15 percent unemployment, gas prices up to 5 bucks a gallon, “Hey it’s not my fault, look what I inherited from Bush, it’s his fault”
Are you high or something?Did you forget the sarcasm tag?
Leftists are such nothings. You can read every such article about Cheney without discovering a single FACT about anything “dangerous” or even inappropriate about him. Where’s the beef?
“Cheney should accuse Biden of being dangerously brain damaged”
Actually he has had brain damage from a couple of strokes. It shows, doesn’t it?
Rumor has it that besides his vice presidential duties, President-Elect Obama will create a cabinet position for Secretary of 7-11 so Plugs feels useful and not left out of the inner circle.
I’m surprised Joe was allowed to make a comment. I was beginning to think he had disappeared.
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