Posted on 10/30/2008 6:28:47 PM PDT by EveningStar
Has Al Rantel flipped out?
He's be getting more and more far out as time goes on.
He doesn't fear Obama.
He does fear Sarah Palin because she said that the VP runs the Senate. Read the constitution, Al.
Click on the link and judge for yourself.
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I used to love Al. He was one of my favorites and now I can’t stand to listen to him. He has becom angry and bitter and has lost his fabulous sense of humor. It makes me sad, but I can’t waste my time with needless negativity.
While I certainly don’t agree with his fear of Palin premise, the VP doesn’t run the Senate. Ask John Adams. The VP has no power whatsoever except that breaking a tie vote. The VP is the executive branch and that’s been decided and is as clear as crystal.
However, her point was much more, “I will be active and work for the Executive Branch with the Senate” answer than saying the VP was “in charge of the Senate”.
Some time ago I came to the conclusion that his bizarre attitude towards Hussein was the result of a crush.
You might want to read your Constitution. The VP presides over the Senate and that is why there is no President of the Senate - just a President Pro Tem. He also break ties but has no regular vote. Palin was right !!!!
I use to listen to Al all the time when I lived in LA. I haven’t heard him since I left in 2005. He was a great conservative, even as a gay man.
Sad. I noticed this a couple of weeks ago. Some Leftie called in and Al basically agreed with him.
The VP is the President of the Senate!
"The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided."
"The Vice President of the United States is designated by the Constitution as the President of the Senate. The Vice President holds a tie breaking vote in the Senate and does not usually preside over the Senate. Since its conception, the role of casting a tie-breaking vote in the Senate has been exercised 242 times. The Vice President of the United States with the most tie breaking votes is John Adams with 29. If there is no sitting Vice President then the President pro tempore of the United States Senate or "President pro tem" serves as President of the Senate. The President pro tem also serves in this role in the Vice President's absence, or if the Vice President assumes the office of President of the United States. In practice, freshman senators are traditionally assigned the role of presiding over the Senate in order to learn Senate procedure."
The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.
Here is the part of article one that lays out the duties of the VP, who is considered part of the legislative branch unless absent or actually running the office of President in case of Death or incapacitation of the President. The VP presides over the senate as President, only voting to break a tie.
Palin is correct the dems are wrong.
She’d be a good counter to the Pelosi-bimbo that’s running the other side. Palin earned her fame, Pelosi married hers. Pelosi is a typical lib fem - got there due to her husband.
Yes he seems to have lost the plot on many issues. This question about the role of the VP is a good debate but I don’t believe that its anything new to the country, nor that Cheney has usurped any powers. The Constitution spells out that the VP will be Pres Pro Tem of the Senate. It is not beyond the reasonableness test to suggest that he have some interaction with the Senators. I’m sure the Founding Fathers did not believe that the VP would just sit in the Senate Chambers and sit quietly. Of course we all know that they believed that the Potus and V.Potus would be selected by the House, so in some respects the Founding Fathers probably thought that the VP would be in some ways an interlocutor between the two chambers as well as a part of the executive branch - with limited powers but certainly not treated like a child (seen but not heard unless spoken to).
isn’t he a homosexual or something?
I seem to remember Al as a solid spending hawk. But in listening to small snippets of his show lately it’s clear he’s disaffected with the Republican party.
Perhaps its the social conservatism (I am a social conservative) that is problematic for him because of his chosen lifestyle, or maybe he’s embittered by the spending problems of the recent years.
Or perhaps he’s found a market niche as a semi-Obama-friendly talk show host like Bill Handel and other L.A. “moderates.”
He’s gay but that has never bothered me about him. It’s not a factor to me.
I don’t blame him or anyone else with being pissed at the spending. There’s no excuse for it.
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