Will Barack Obama replace Joe Biden as VP?

But does it *seem* overwhelming?

 

You dizzy yet?

DADT is the most recent gay rights-related vote. We can go back to hate crimes legislation if you'd like, where 18 Republicans voted yea. I'm not that good at math, but I'm pretty sure that 64 > 18 > 15 > 5. Which means your premise is still total bullshit.

 

In 1950 Harry Truman created the Uniform Code of Military Justice which set up the rules for discharge of homosexuals.

I would agree that Harry Truman would probably feel more at home in the modern Republican Party than the Democratic Party but not for reasons have to do with treatment of homosexuals.

 

There should be a constitutional amendment setting an age eligibility limit of 65 for VPOTUS.

The only constitutional function of the office is to take over if the president dies or is removed, so there is a pretty good functional reason that the VP should be younger and healthier.

If I ran one of the major parties, I would never nominate anybody over 60 on the national ticket. I want the major officeholders to have some personal stake in what the country is going to look like in 30 years.

 

Just curious if the embedded Democrat Jon Huntsman picks up any more votes after tonight's CNN Tea Party debate.

 

You can't say you are pro-life if you are for the death penalty.

 

Where there's smoke there's fire

http://p.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2011/oct/13/speculation-about-biden-annoys-white-house/

 

Love the Washington Times for inside beltway stuff.

 

Where's the smoke?

 

Actually, the VP's primary constitutional function is to preside over the Senate. In fact, he casts the deciding vote in any tie. While that has become a minor part of his actual role -- these days he's more a presidential advisor whose Senate duties are for the most part ceremonial -- he does actually have a job spelled out in the Constitution.

http://www.senate.gov/general/Features/Part_1_VP.htm


Section 3

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies.

No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.

The Senate shall chuse 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.






Class dismissed.

 

Has anyone ever really cast a vote for a presidential ticket solely based on who was the VP nominee?

Since FDR, the only person to to drop their VP from the ticket was Ford.

 

I still think he ought to strengthen his base and ask Bill Ayers to be his running mate. That's the key to victory, right? Espouse your left ideas because, as many of you said four years ago, America was embracing liberalism when it elected this man, not reacting to a implosion of the economy.