The President is the captain and responsible for every one, remember? On a series note, I'm surprised your arguing a point you clearly lost.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Sam wrote: >> The Constitution, though, actually says the vice president is always >> president of the Senate and legal scholars say he has the right to >> preside at any time. > > But the word "preside" is mostly meaningless. The VP's only role is > to cast a tie-breaking vote. That's it. > > Now it's true that it's convention that the VP essentially never do a > thing in the senate except and unless a tie-break is needed. > > What that leaves open - if one is willing to break convention - is for > the VP to attempt to influence senators. But that's it. > > So Ms. Palin - and you - are wrong on 2 counts: > > (1.) The VP is not "in charge" of the senate. The VP can "preside" if > they wish to break convention, but there's no voting power and thus > solely procedural. Further, the role can be molded via resolution. > > (2.) They have no power to make any policy changes. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275962 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
