Constitution

That is the part of our Constitution that lays out the only real job of the vice-President. That job is to be the President of the Senate. We were reminded of this about a year ago by another vice-President - Dick Cheney.

What legislative experience does Sarah Palin have? I have read a lot of Dan Quayle comparisons today, but that really isn't fair to Quayle. He at least had 12 years of legislative experience before becoming vice-President. Does Palin even know how the Senate really works? These are serious questions requiring serious answers.

The Constitutional damage of George W. Bush continues:

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.

The proposed changes would revise the federal government's rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation's 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants

I wonder how these people will react when a President Obama has said authority?

The Democrats want to give the citizens of Washington D.C. the basic democratic right the rest of the country enjoys - representation in Congress, but Bush is ready to put a stop to that:

The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto legislation giving the District of Columbia a vote in the House, possibly prolonging a two-century-long wait for representation in Congress.

The bill, the White House said in a statement, violates constitutional language saying the House should be made up of representatives chosen by the people of the states. “The District of Columbia is not a state,” it said, and if the legislation reaches President Bush's desk, “his senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill.”

The House is to vote Friday on the legislation that would give a vote to the D.C. delegate while creating, until the 2010 census, a new at-large seat for Utah.

Why does Bush hate democracy so much? This excuse is really lame. If we are going to say that, then we should revoke the representatives from Kentucky and Virginia, as they are commonwealths and not states. How would Bush feel about that happening to two big red "states"? Perhaps the Democrats should fight back with threatening to remove the representation of these two states.