We need him where he is.
Reminds me of an article on Jack Wheelers site which goes a little something like this:
Jesse Helms once said he’d rather be Vice-President than President. The VP is the chief presiding officer over the Senate, he explained, and as such, has the power to control the Senate agenda - who speaks or doesn’t get to, what bills are voted on or tabled, etc.
It was his favorite subject. If you ever asked him about it, he would talk your ear off. He would tell you just how more powerful the President of the Senate was than the Majority Leader. Then his excitement would die down and he’d shake his head in frustration that no Vice-President ever had the nerve to actually exercise that power.