Palin Sides With Cheney on Vice Presidential Powers

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Palin Sides With Cheney on Vice Presidential Powers
By David Nather | October 2, 2008 11:17 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sarah Palin seemed to confirm tonight what her record as Alaska governor suggests: Her views on executive power, and specifically the powers of the vice presidency, might not be too far from the way Dick Cheney has approached the job.

It’s not that vice presidential experts think Palin could come anywhere close to Cheney’s level of influence, given that John McCain would be the experienced one in that partnership — the reverse of the relationship between Cheney and President Bush.

But it’s hard to read her answer to Gwen Ifill’s question tonight — about Cheney’s insistence last year that the vice president doesn’t belong to the executive branch — as anything other than a bid for as few constraints as possible:

“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.”
more:http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/beyond/2008/10/palin-sides-with-cheney-on-vic.html

[stray cat]

1. Worse, Palin wants to increase the legislative power of the VP beyond Cheney's

[ananda]

2. It's a matter of being president of the senate..

.. and control of the Senate by the unitary executive office.

It's unconstitutional, it's scary, and it shows a humongous
hubris on the parts of Cheney and Palin... and the GOP.

[judasdisney]

3. Wait a minute. Where's the ridicule & snickering NOW that she wants to be dictator?

Only dumbfuck clown fools snicker at a dangerous fascist

[pleah]

4. If that alone wasn't enough of a wake-up call for people out there, then

they just aren't paying attention.