Sarah Palin's "In Charge of the Senate." Tina Fey Says "Thank You" For Her Next Skit

Speaking to a reporter Tuesday who asked her about a third-grader's question about the role of the United States vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, Republican nominee Sen. John McCain's running mate, offered this explanation:

"... A vice president has a really great job because, not only are they there to support the president's agenda, they're like the team member, the teammate to that president, but also, they're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the Senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom."

Holy Eskimo shit...what the fuck is this woman talking about? My God...team member? Teammate? In charge of the Senate? How on Earth can you possibly run for the second highest job in the world and not even know what the hell its responsibilities are? How does the McCain camp let her out on the street with this moronic revisionist nonsense? She wouldn't know a U.S. Constitution if it smacked her in her fraudulent smart-girl glasses. As MSNBC's Chris Matthews said Tuesday night, "She wasn't talking to third-graders, she was talking like a third-grader!"

Palin seems to be utterly clueless as to what her job would be. And it's no surprise. She's consistently made embarrassing, Constitutionally-inaccurate statements on the role of the office. It began July 31st when she told CNBC's Larry Kudlow that, "As for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you, I still can't answer that question until somebody answers for me what is it exactly that the VP does every day? I'm used to being very productive and working real hard in an administration."

She dug her ignorance hole even deeper when, during the vice presidential debate with Sen. Joe Biden, she told moderator Gwen Ifill that she believes Dick Cheney was right about the vice president being more that just a member of the executive branch, and that vp's have "much flexibility" in the job:

"Well, our founding fathers were very wise there in allowing through the Constitution much flexibility there in the office of the vice president. And we will do what is best for the American people in tapping into that position and ushering in an agenda that is supportive and cooperative with the president's agenda in that position. Yeah, so I do agree with him that we have a lot of flexibility in there, and we'll do what we have to do to administer very appropriately the plans that are needed for this nation."

Last time I checked, Article I Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution says the job of the vice president is twofold: to take over the job of president in the event the president is unable to serve; and to serve as president of the Senate, with responsibilities strictly limited to serving as the tie-breaker. The job offers no legislative powers, Grandma. There is no "flexibility." There are no "policy changes" to be made. You are not "in charge" of anything. You simply sit in a chair looking bored out of your wits, like every other vice president in U.S. history -- including Darth Vader -- and quietly observe as 100 Senators do their job. Unless there's a tie, you are window-dressing. Period. Not that I give a shit, but you should really stop humiliating yourself like this. And, your stupidity is shaving points off of McCain's poll numbers faster than Karl Rove's hairline is receding. I guess, for that, we should be thankful. Just as Saturday Night Live's Tina Fey is grateful for her next skit on the wacky Wasilla Wonder.

Of Palin's latest screw-up, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann incredulously opined, "You've had three months to get this right!" It's truly unbelievable that she hasn't.

Regarding the McCain campaign in general, it has gotten so desperate that it's beginning to make the candidate and his running mate appear like a couple of erratic, self-contradicting nitwits. The latest barrage of attacks on Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama accuses him of being a "socialist." So, let's get this straight: he's a socialist... and, um.... an elitist... and, er... a terrorist...and...um...a celebrity. . What's next, a hermaphrodite? And anyway, is a possible for one person to be a socialist, an elitist, a terrorist and a celebrity? How would that even look? Do you attend Harvard to get high-paying jobs so you can live in a wealthy neighborhood just so you can steal from your rich neighbors to give to the poor, all before you blow up their houses and then go for drinks with Alec Baldwin? I'm lost....

Comments

[retlash]

McCain insists that HE chose Palin. He didn't. He wanted Joe Lieberman, but McCain's campaign manager and puppeteer, Rick Davis, said that Lieberman's pro-abortion stance wouldn't attract the grass rooters' votes. So, McCain yielded and displayed, once again, his poor judgment by bringing Palin on board. As the polls now overwhelmingly show, that decision backfired. Palin knows less about the Constitution, foreign policy, and economics than does my Aunt Molly, by golly! Palin's hate- mongering, populist clap-trap is not only laughable, but dangerous and disgraceful. Fortunately, she appeals only to a small minority of ignoramuses. I can hardly wait until No. 5th when she disappears from the national scene along with McCain.

[StupidPeasant]

If Sarah became president, she would pick a vice president more experienced than Obama; just like Obama did.

[darlene91406]

What I love is that the Republicans try and crucify Obama with the Reverend Wright controversy by saying that he was a member of this Christian Church for 20 years.....

Then, he is a Muslim.

WHICH ONE IS IT???? IS HE A CHRISTIAN OR A MUSLIM?? THEY CAN'T MAKE UP THEIR MINDS!!

If you look closely at the Redumblicans rhetoric, you will find all sorts of inconsistencies such as this. They just spew so much garbage they hope you don't realize the dots are connecting.

[bitterindependent]

Sarah Quyalin: " i don't know what the H#ll the VP does, but i spent the night at the Holiday Inn....please hire me!!!!"

[altovuelo]

It's somehow reassuring that a movement as intellectually and morally bankrupt as Cheney-Kristol-Wolfowitz-neoconservatism would inevitably devolve into putting forward somebody just like Sarah Palin. And thereby, self-destruct in a cloud of ridicule and incompetence.

November 4 may be a national housecleaning catharsis. Truth and reconciliation. And for the icing, maybe even Alaska and Arizona will go for Obama!

[songoftherushes]

give ol sarah a break....cheney is probably the only vp she has ever heard of..............

[dougiec]

Alas! So much material piling up on Tina Fey, and so little time left to use it.

[Juliane]

Hey Sarah if you cant even get the job description of the VP right , I would be fearful of your own contrived rendition of what the Presidents duties entail.

[kavan]

Yes, if the VP is a woman she actually gets to be Empress of the Senate, with a $2,000,000 annual clothing budget and can have a weekly caribou barbecue in the rotunda far all the "real" American Senators.

[Willow712]

But they won't invite the "anti American " Senators to the caribou barbeque, because it might be catching.

[Azzurra1]

My son who is in the second grade answered that question correctly in a test last week in school. He saw this clip and asked what's she talking about? Watching Pfotenhauer try and defend Palin's response with her Cheshire Cat grin on Hardball was a classic!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/chris-matthews-battles-na_n_137030.html

I bet Photenhauer would have liked to disappear like the Cheshire Cat only leaving the grin.

[PuppaX]

She followed her statement with: "The Vice President is kind of like Jaffar in Alladin."

[Rescisco]

Article I Section 3 (clause 4) aside, how can anyone be trusted to "protect, preserve, and defend" something they have not read? I am sick and tired of politicians who do not begin to understand our Constitution making us bats--t crazy stuff and saying its in the Constitution!

[pheepher]

If Palin is the best candidate to run for VP, the Republican Party needs to take a step back and reconsider the odds of ever being in power again.

[LetMeUnderstandThis]

And people were concerned about Joey The Shark gaffes, that Chick has the campaign gaffes on lock down. I don't want to hear anything about Joey the Shark not after she speaks.

Obama/Biden 08

[JeffmChicago]

Pat Buchanan should read this about Palin. I wonder if it would change his mind?

Mr. Ostroy this was a funny reading on Sarah Palin. Thank you!

[pheepher]

I used to be bothered by comments coming from Pat Buchanan on the TV. Then I realized he is moving voters to Obama like no other commentator on television. He really is living in the "past" not realizing a younger generation doesn't even know what he's talking about. It's easy to see why his "Presidential" campaign didn't put him in the White House.

[SCVADem]

I'm beginning to think that Pat doesn't actually believe what he's saying, but he's the only one they can tap at any hour of the day to give the "Republican" viewpoint. He's gotten in a habit of smiling at the end of a speech and the look on his face screams "Did I sound convincing because I sure as hel l don't believe what I just said..."