Hardball: Matthews Hammers Pfotenhauer Over Palin
By Heather Wednesday Oct 22, 2008 5:46pmUpdate: Nicole Belle adds:
Chris Matthews talks to Obama spokesperson Bill Burton and McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer about the final days of the campaign. Pfotenhauer has a great tell: whenever she gets flustered and is desperately trying to spin the unspinnable, her smile gets wider and she laughs nervously. Matthews had her beaming like a high intensity flare over whose choice it was to spend the $150,000 on Palin's clothing, something the RNC has thrown back in the lap of the McCain campaign and how pathetic it is that Palin doesn't know what the role of the Vice President is.
MATTHEWS: We talked about the superficial, now let's talk the reality here. And I want to talk about this: the role of the Vice President. I want to give you a shot at it, Nancy, you're a pro. You're not somebody in from out of town. You know how politics works. What is the role of the Vice President under the Constitution? Simply put, you know it or you don't. Either a person understands the role of the Vice President or they don't. What—as you understand it from the Constitution – as a professional, is the role of a Vice President. It's very important you know this answer. We're filling the part in two weeks.
PFOTENHAUER: That's right. That's right. Well, I mean, obviously the role of the Vice President is to support the President, but to also to preside when necessary over the US Senate. And I think that this is also a tempest in a teapot…
MATTHEWS: No, that's not the role of the Vice President. I gave you a shot, Nancy, I want you to try again. What is the Constitutional role of the Vice President? In the Constitution? What's written in the Constitution? You're…look, you're all strict constructionists…
PFOTENHAUER: I'm not a Constitutional scholar but I do know …
MATTHEWS: Have you ever read it?
PFOTENHAUER: I'm not a Constitutional scholar, but I have been reading the commentary on this and seems to me that people are parsing words and she was obviously trying to explain to a young child…
MATTHEWS: Let me…Okay, let's take a look at this…
PFOTENHAUER: …what the Vice President would do…
MATTHEWS: Nancy, I appreciate you coming on the show. It's a tough defense of this person, Sarah Palin.
PFOTENHAUER: Oh my…
MATTHEWS: Apparently, she doesn't understand. The role of the Vice President—let me state it very clearly right now—is to replace the President, if that is necessary. As Colin Powell said on Sunday, that's the job of the Vice President, to stand ready, under the Constitution in the tragic circumstances to replace the President. Now that's one role. The other role is to have only a tie breaking role, as presiding officer of the US Senate. That's it. The Constitution specifically prescribes that. In fact it says that's all the person has the right to do. Now here's Sarah Palin with her definition of this role, which sounds strange to me and I've been in this city a long time. I have never heard anybody say, and by the way, it's very similar to what she said in her debate with Joe Biden, which made me wonder then: where did she get her civics?
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Palin talks about things like she is talking to a two year old, or in other words a peer.
What a soulless, filibustering, yapping ghoul. Blah, blah, blah, grin, shake head dismissively at your intellectual superior (which is just about everybody), attempt to inturrupt, repeat talking points five times, breath rudely, chuckle, change the subject and bring up and castigate a convenient Democrat or Teh Clinton. OH come on, you KNOW she would have gone there eventually.
You know, the way her face is stretched and that grin remains plastered on her stupid face, you'd think that it takes more energy to shut her mouth that it does to maintain that vapid smile. (Ewwww...d'you think she smiles toothily while she sleeps? THAT would be creepy)
WHERE do they grow lollipop monsters like Pfotenhufflepuff or whatever the Hell her name is?
Yeesh.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!
There is a reason I call her "phoffen-heffer". She's an android moron.
she is a professional with a job to do. She needs work after this election... so what was she supposed to say?? I mean really.
I give her credit for not crying or saying F this and leaving. Maybe we can hear her thoughts after the election.
Now... If she decided to run with palin then she deserves your rude and crude and off topic comments about her personally. But if some chowderhead like ummm MAC CAin (her boss) then what was she to do?
petreaus& Palin 2012 <
I think I read somwhere that her husband (that would be
Mr. Pff-tt-on-hour) is the president or a main lobbyist for the National Association of Mortgage Bankers.
So, I would imagine she can afford a few few more scarves to keep her head attached!!! Maybe Sarah will bequeath her Dem Donkey scarf to Nance when she leaves to go back to Wasilla!!!
It really hurts, doesn't it?
You've had 8 years of slag, slag, slag and a tiny bit comes back and bites you in the derriere and you poor slob can't think of anything better to do than run to a liberal site and make an enormous fool of yourself.
Why am I not surprised.
if she had any integrity, she would simply quit this sham of a campaign... she obviously doesn't need the money... and she obviously is educated enough to recognize that palin in the whitehouse represents an assault on her own gender... she is not so ignorant of history as to not realize palin is an insult to women and the women's movement... the ONLY reason she's doing this job is because there's a LOT of money in it for her somewhere down the line... she just hasn't quite figured out that no amount is worth the loss of her soul... although, she has demonstrated that whatever soul she does posses has been repressed, tortured and marginalized for quite some time now...
for her to blatantly twist this canard into some cohesive argument in support of that disgrace of a candidate, and by extension, the idiot who doesn't vet anyone before storming onward in the very manner that caused him to crash 5 planes before successfully being captured by the enemy is nothing short of career suicide...
she would be far better off if she demonstrated SOME integrity and left now, before she's left holding the laughing stock bag...
to attempt to raise joe biden as a counter argument is entirely laughable... the salient difference between biden and palin is that joe actually has valid experience and insight and intelligence to contribute to the white house whereas palin offers what...?... coffee, tea or a smile, a wink and a nudge...?... will she wear short skirts and coiffed hair to motivate discourse at the white house...?... will she get dressed up in a cheerleader's outfit to spur on negotiations...?...
i haven't seen on this site yet, but on last night's Daily Show, Wasilla's Mayor was interviewed about what she does in her job... and if anyone saw that interview, they will have no question in their minds that Obama's experience as a "community organizer" 20 years ago was FAR MORE challenging and complex than that job... raising that experience as justification of palin's experience is just too bloody insulting to be considered anything more than pitifully laughable... the mayor of Wasilla has no more responsibility than an administrative assistant at practically any company... including an SME...
this is just so much of a farce, it embarrasses me that idiots can still argue in favour of the repug ticket... put a fork in it already and show some dignity... you jackanapes are a disgrace to democracy...
....you have got to be friggin' kidding....
.... no wonder you're crabby
"She needs work after the election". LOL! Tell lying stick woman to eat a couple of sandwiches and then become a street walker because she sounds like a pathetic loyal whore defending an abusive pimp to the end.
Matthews hung, drew, and quartered that dumb bitch!
Well Spoke! And funny too.
Have you noticed there are a lot of creepy smiles coming out of the Republicans party?
In the words of Jon Stewart, "What the pfuck?"
Pfot.: "We should really be talking about much bigger issues..."
This coming from the campaign whose only tactic is mudslinging? Please...
Creepy! These good looking broads McCain surrounds himself with is strange. Are they looking for a father figure? Why didn't McCain pick Christine Whitman or Kay Baily Hutchingson? Eew!
LY-ing-BIM-bo-shit.
GOD, THAT IS FUNNY!!
It's pronounced Fo-tin-how-er...but lying beyotch works much better.
I get it!
:<[)
The question of sarah's not knowing what the vice president does has the same answer for both:
Understudy.
2nd rate and 2nd place is all she ever got.
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It's purty John!
Thot I hit an exterior link for a moment there. :p
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Nice colour scheme too. Well done, C&L!
I saw that. I left C&L to go to the kitchen for a sec and came back to a video cafe. And I'm not even smoking anything.
Now I'm leaving this place I was "popped into" (in my absence). Hope I can find my way out. Wish me luck.
sarah shoulda told the little school bugger that a vice president is like a vice principal, and don't make her break out Mr. Spanky.
ain't that the 1st dude?
that should be "whose decision".
How can that woman sit there smiling while being destroyed by Chris Matthews? This is how lost the Republican party is. Hopefully the Democrats will not let the ball drop this time.
She is Nosferatu: the Undead. They live on a separate plain than the rest of us, where shame and introspection are unknown.
The world wonders.
that the answer is yes.
20% to 40% still vote that way.
Stopped wondering: confirmed a long time ago, in spades.
There is something very Harkonnen about Palin and her red leather.
As much as I agree...Chris Matthews likes to hear himself talk too much...not a fan. He's bordering the same "little bitch" status as O'Reilly...bordering.
with you.
He's a Weatherman, in the end. And, his middle name should be "Schadenfreude."
palin and the rnc are saying that the clothes are on loan
that doesnt fly
and it doesnt matter that the clothes will be donated after the campaign, the clothes must be considered income
2 USC 439b(2)(B):
(b) Prohibited use
(1) In general
A contribution or donation described in subsection (a) of this section shall not be converted by any person to personal use.
(2) Conversion
For the purposes of paragraph (1), a contribution or donation shall be considered to be converted to personal use if the contribution or amount is used to fulfill any commitment, obligation, or expense of a person that would exist irrespective of the candidate's election campaign or individual's duties as a holder of Federal office, including--
(A) a home mortgage, rent, or utility payment;
(B) a clothing purchase;
(C) a noncampaign-related automobile expense;
(D) a country club membership;
(E) a vacation or other noncampaign-related trip;
(F) a household food item;
(G) a tuition payment;
(H) admission to a sporting event, concert, theater, or other form of entertainment not associated with an election campaign; and
(I) dues, fees, and other payments to a health club or recreational facility.
The law makes no exception for post-hoc "we're gonna donate it to charity after the election" excuses.
or not?
that matters precisely how?
If it's USC, it's USC. Is the hint here one of McCain hypocrisy? Boy, that would be a first, 'eh?
... as Matthews pointed out, the RNC denied that and pitched it back at the McCain campaign. The purchases were illegal.
The McCain campaign will probably change the story --again-- by tonight. Consistency is not one of their strong points. I'd even say it appears "erratic and lurching".
The operative phrase, "in charge of," is what eliminates any plausible denial of her egregious ignorance. And as well as Matthews handled it, it took him nine minutes to get there, while Burton completely bungled his opportunity.
Call me unimpressed. Sorry.
This dumbass thinks "presides" unequivocally means "in charge of." She would learn on the morning of Day One that it unequivocally does not.
Were such a day to arrive, however, that would be well down the Pareto list of our problems.
was there any doubt.
One knows the answers.
The other one doesn't.
Neither of them answer the questions.
that's the problem. repugs always got by on sloganeering. that's why they need a stuupid constituency.
somebody tell this stupid conniving biatch with a bad nose job she can't talk her way out of how stupid palin is.
how stupid she is. That stupid giggling when she was being derailed. Ugh, makes all women look like simpering fools.
attribute her actions or sounds to other women. I know too many smart ones, especially some here. I have said this before.
The stinking CONs in this country believe you can make up your own powers once your in office, it's pathetic. I truely believe Bush said "the constitution is just a God Dam piece of paper" after seeing the way these ass hats operate.
Has been a Republican INSIDE JOKE from the very beginning of McCain's general campaign. NOTHING they have done in the last six months has been about COUNTRY FIRST. This interview is another positive proof that McCain it all about PARTY FIRST... always has been.
so here I am
After Palin said that I asked my 10 year old daughter what the Vice Presidents job was. She answered, "to be President if the President can't be and to vote if there is a tie" Ok, I'm pretty certain she hasnt read the constitution (although she does have a bookmark with the bill of rights on it) and if she can get this right with a 5th grade education why is it so hard for a potention VP to answer this correctly?
This is the third time Palin has stated her belief that the VP is in charge of the Senate. If the McCain people thought this impression should be corrected, it would have happened already. Her comments are not accidental and they are not plain stupidity. There has been a concerted effort on the part of some neocons to create a co-presidency within the veep's office and merge it with the legislative branch. She is merely giving advance notice of her intent. Cheney chipped away at it and attempted, unsuccessfully, to have the veep's office declared part of both the exec and legislative branches. This woman's sense of her own charm and her reckless ambition may lead her to believe she is capable of succeeding where Cheney failed. Our mistake would be to believe she's only a blithering idiot. She may be, but she is also an egomaniac. She is not demonstrating so much her lack of knowledge for the Constitution as she is her complete disregard for what it says if it conflicts with her ambitions.
You have nailed it.
But, she would be bitch-slapped down to the carpet in the Senate on Morning One of Day One of assuming she's "in charge."
Think about it. You think the mega-egos actually "in charge of" the Senate would permit this helium head to assert control? Homie Don't Tink So.
Cheney invented this thing called the "Unitary Executive".
He claims that becuase he is President of the Senate; he is part of the Legislative as well as the Executive Branch.
Executive Orders have always been used to govern conduct within the existing ROLES of government agencies.
Cheney has used his idea of the "Unitary Executive" to justify changing the roles of government agencies.
This was how he started the survelliance program and the torture program.
Cheney thinks he can write his own laws. Palin thinks the same thing.
Palin is embarassingly wrong on this, and Nancy knows it.
Way to go Chris Matthews!
He's absolutely right. This issue needs to be discussed at length, because it really sheds light on the ambitions and beliefs of certain elements of the right wing with respect to the consolidation of power in the Whitehouse.
Damn. You know she was hating her job here.
I wonder if the campaigning will reward her with one of Palin's toss off Gucci dresses?
For once, I agree with Matthews, the red leather jacket is hot. While I have no idea what that cost the to McCain campaign is, the whole idea of having an authoritarian dominatrix as VP makes the hairs on my scrotum stand at attention. I'm beginning to understand the sublimated eroticism of self-denial so embraced by the far right.
Pfotenhauer : "I'm not a constitutional scholar........"
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH .
No shit, Sherlock !
Shorter version: "I'm not here to clean up after Moosegirl."
I haven't been a big Chris Matthews' fan, although I know he has pushed these repugs.
However, he is my new hero at the moment because of what happened to Bachmann. If Bachmann eventually loses her election, Matthews will momentarily become a God for me!
Pfotenhauer is really not that bright. She has said some really stupid things on this campaign.
but I really like it when he goes after republican idiots like Pfotenhauer. He certainly took the wind out of her sails and it was a pleasure to watch.
Speaking of idiots, I wonder where that whiny little creep Tucker Bounds is these days.
I mean, she's HOt. And we all know repugnantcons are repressed. She's probably kinky in bed, and I would "hammer" the stupid out of her.
mmmmmm, Pfotenhauer, yummy!!!! :D
That's the second funniest thing I've seen today. First would have to be McDainbramage agreeing with Murtha.
Nancy still does not understand the roll of the Vice President. She does not want to know. She just wants it to be whatever Sarah Palin says it is.
Wow! Chris Matthews is almost like a journalist sometimes!
Palin BELIEVES that is what she is going to do if they win. Don't underestimate her. She is nuts and she has an agenda - and it's not "country first." She really doesn't know what the pfuck she is talking about.
Have you noticed that one of the newest techniques from the republican party is to act condescending when they don't agree with what's being said. They shake their heads and act like the person doesn't know what they're talking about. Both Palin and McCain have used the technique and now this Nancy is. Pfuck them all.
That's new?
...but I think there is something more sinister here.
Look at what Dick Cheeeeeney has done to the office. He, basically, IS the de-facto President, pulling the puppet strings of the dancing bobbling figurehead Chimp-n-Chief. Over eight years, he has, with the help of a reactionary court and wimpass Dems, turned the office into something that it wasn't designed to be under the Constitution. This twisted concept of the Veep's job is a meme that I think the Repubs are trying to push, with Palin's seemingly ignorant comment and Ms. Pfunnyname's followup.
This is another example of the Repubs playing the American people for suckers. Hopefully, it won't work this time. Having challenges to this type of crap from even the Tweetybird is a good start towards cleaning out this sludge from our discourse.
Of course i think you are correct, but the way you fight that is to do what Mathews did and point out that they are wrong.
...and we're going to need more than Tweets, Olbermann, Maddow, and Progressive Radio to do that job...
I made my comment because, from my observation, Tweets doesn't always do that - he's been cowed by more than a few skilled right-wing hacks. But he's been getting better lately - check his destruction of Kevin James earlier this year, and his obliteration of Talkin' Michelle Malkin four years ago when she tried to pull the Swift Boat John Kerry dingleberry out of her kimut.
This is why I like Chris, he isn't always right but when he is, he is and a pit bull on top of that.
Seems like it is time to mail copies of the Constitution to Sarah Palin because the Republicans have decimated it to the point where even their own candidates don't know what it says. Maybe the DNC can find us a large quantity of the Constitution printed in a booklet that we could mail to Ms. Palin. Great visual and a way to keep this in the news cycle. The Constitution needs to be restored and this might be a good starting point.
Chris Matthews stepped up to the plate on this one....about time and thank you Chris.
just like everything else, if they don't agree with it they will deny it says what it says or say that what it says is Anti-American.
It's like the Bible. For the Republicans, it says what they want it to say.
Everyone else is bad, stupid, or wrong.
You mean we're not? Oh, happy day. (Perhaps I watch too much TV.)
It was really a pretty decent job of squirming for 9 minutes. Zing-- you got told.
Even if we love/hate Tweety, ya gotta admit, it's pretty cool when he does this.
$150,000 for clothes and they couldn't purchase a copy of the Constitution? Sheesh! I got mine years ago on a sale table at Barnes & Noble. $2.99!
And then, of course, there's Amazon.com. No excuses. Crap, you can Google the damn thing!!
It is free online and worth a look.
Got my copy at home.
... wouldn't you think a Governor, even of Alaska, would have their own copy? Oh right, why read the Constitution of a country you want to secede from. Silly me.
It doesn't seem like Caribou Barbie has mastered reading comprehension
While Baron Harkonnen and John McCain share disfiguring diseases (at least in the David Lynch film, the ol' Baron is shown to be a pustulent sack of ...), the Baron likes boys, not beauty queens.
I would be very surprised if either Palin or Pfotenhauer could pass a standard citizenship exam. Both show a disdain for our government.
You are obviously a Commie!
Or a Muslim or a New Yorker!
Thank you Chris Matthews for hammering this issue. This should disqualify her from being a VP candidate if she doesn't even know what the constitution says about the office. You would think she would have learned by now after several times being questioned over it. Its kind of important I think (although apparantely not so important to the Republicans who do whatever they want even if it goes against the constitution).
As much as I enjoyed this - truly, truly enjoyed this - I can't help but think, and say, two things:
1) Give the woman a break. She knows she's going down on a sinking ship, and showed a bit of rather admirable grace under fire while bailing out the rising water as hard as she could with the itty bitty kiddy bucket the McCain campaign has left her with. And I only wish my teeth were as white as hers.
2) As much as I thought Matthews did a good job of hammering home the issue - what is the Constitutional description of the job of VP -and not allowing her to weasle the topic away to something else to avoid it, I couldn't help wishing he'd shown as much... excuse the obvious pub... teeth and aggressiveness when it really counted. Over the past eight goddamned years. Where were you and your journalistic integrity then, Mr. Matthews? Why weren't you grilling people about what the job of VP was when it was/is Cheney in the role? It's easy enough NOW to join the righteous side, when it likely that's the side that's winning. Now you just look like an opportunist.
No way. If she wants to continue to believe the horseshit she's pumping out, let her take the smackdown she deserved.
Nobody put a gun to her head to come on and reveal what pondscum she is,Pity,perhaps. A break? Not in This lifetime.
Actually, Chris didn't get it quite right, either. The Constitution says the veep takes the president's place in the event of the latter's death or disability, yes. The VP only votes in the Senate in the event of a tie, yes.
But it calls the veep the "President of the Senate." Contrary to what CM appears to say, the veep is not the presiding officer only at the time of a tie vote but all the time. (That's why the person who hypothetically presides when the veep doesn't show - which is, of course, most of the time - is called the President pro tem.)
More to the point, when he says "it says that's all the person has the right to do," that's just wrong because what that means is that under the Constitution, the vice-president can do nothing other than preside over the Senate and wait for the president to die. Which is clearly untrue.
Even in the second grade I knew to study for a test. Don't you think Ms. Palin has had plenty of time to research the job she is asking the American people to give her? Maybe that second grader could lend her a book. If nothing else, can't somebody with the campaign just freakin' tell her?!?!
When Palin dropped that little bomb during the debate, I wondered why it wasn't being picked up in a bigger way by the media. I'm not able to stay totally on top of it all, so maybe I've missed it, but I'm still waiting to see a big public discussion about McCain's bomb, about wanting to put troops returning from active duty directly into the classrooms as teachers, without making them go through those pesky certification tests - what the heck was up with THAT, and why hasn't the Obama campaign jumped all over it?
Good points Bonkers on the 'shake head', 'attempt to interrupt', 'repeat talking points', 'bring up and castigate a convenient Democrat or the Clintons'. I've been gathering up some words that apply to the tactics of these types, beginning from a piece I read on Roger Ailes here: http://www.thewholeamericanhog.com/index.php?...
They used the term Nixon-Segretti-Ailes-Atwater-Rove-Bush for the media tactics of the last forty years and words like lie, fabricate, impugn, destroy, take no prisoners, have no shame were used. Bill Sammon on Fox came out with some advice the other day saying 'parry', 'deflect', 'finesse', which was an insight. Others are divide, distort, distract. Goering had some words too. Anyway, it's all so negative and hopefully passe for the rest of the 21st c.
Listening to Nancy P-Fotenhauer here, honestly - there are some terrific soundbites of her grunting, sighing and exhaling rather enthusiastically to patch in for a cut-rate porno.
*shudder*
...while Matthews constantly slammed down stick woman's tired ass talking points. Notice while Nancy was diatribing Matthews kept muttering "go ahead, keep changing the subject". That was a textbook example of how to kick a Republican in the crotch while they're lying.
"Please say something... instead of standing back and letting them destroy themselves."
His silence was pf*cking perfect.
perfect response IMHO!
Looked like Little Miss Pfotenholer was about to cry....awwwww.
I'm going to watch this video all day.
I've had many disagreements with Chris Matthews hard-charging style in the past. Today, it served him very well. All too often the blovating talking heads like Nancy P here, succeed in changing the subject and redirecting the bullet. Not today. Kudos to Matthews who held her feet to the fire on this incredibly important point.
The fact is that Palin has repeated this same remark about "running the senate" and having a role in making policy "should the VP choose to do so" at least 4 times now. It is profoundly important that she not be able to get away with this assertion. We have seen what Cheney has done to manipulate policy behind the sceens, and I am 100% convinced that it was not Palin who came up with this cockimamie idea, but rather a Cheney/Addington/Yoo surrogate who is eager to continue to see the role of VP expand as Cheney has done. I'm half way through the new Cheney book ANGLER now, and it is a remarkable read. I highly reccomend it to anyone who wants to understand how the bush administration subverted the constitution.
Palin's retoric regarding the expansion of VP powers into policy making must be brought out into the open and flogged by every media outlet. What she is proposing is illegal, and profoundly wrong. The danger in letting this pass as some sort of minor gaff or a gap in her understanding of the constitution is underestimating the issue. She was told to pursue this talking point by somone up the chain of command in the RNC. This was no gaff. This was a trial ballon lofted to test market the idea, to see if the media and the electorate would push back. Matthews has done his part. Now it's time for the rest of the media to see this for what it is. This is the beginning of a power grab - plain and simple.
But a continuation....a passing of the torch, from one crooked, fascist administration to another...
Good job Tweety !!!!
One can imagine her confusion.
After all, Cheney has redefined the role of VP as that of de facto president, or specifically to Bush, "regent."
Please bring back Schoolhouse Rock!
get her nose job from Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon?
Holy hell, I learned in grade school that the government is made of three equal branches of government. This unitary executive theory that everything is subservient to the office of the president is blatantly unconstitutional. Elected kings were the exact thing the founding fathers didn't want. And this person is running for VP?? The mind reels.
Ms. Pfotenhauer was the Director of the Washing office of Koch Industries. From Mother Jones: Koch Industries, a conglomerate with major oil and gas holdings, is the second-largest privately-held company in the United States. It is also the recipient of the largest civil fine ever imposed on a corporation for violating federal environmental laws. During the 1990s, the company's leaky pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, prompting a penalty of $30 million. In 1996, a faulty pipeline caused an explosion outside of Dallas in which two teenagers were killed. In a lawsuit related to the deaths, a trial court returned a judgement of $376.69 million against the company.
Here is more:
Koch Industries Danger
You mean to tell me that they spent $150,000 on clothes for Palin and her family and she can't give a third grader the correct job description for the VP?????
I am going to vote for the half black and half white man who walks with holes in his shoes!!!!! Take a good look at them GOVENOR PALIN,
The so called executive that can't define her job description to a 3rd grader!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/22/obam...
Is Matthews the only one out there doing this now?
Sure, Olberman and Maddow have TV shows, but they don't jump all over the crazy neocons like this. Look at Maddows show from yesterday where Buchanan basically treated her like a child, and just got LOUDER as the went on.
What a joke.
I seldom agree with Chris Matthews as he played the Washington cocktail circuit insider for too long, but I will give him credit for dismantling Nancy Poopandholler piece by piece and handing both halves of her ass back to her! Sliced and diced like Ron Popeil's Veg-O-Matic!
The VP only comes up to bat on two occasions:
Breaking a tie vote in the Senate
Take over if the Prez croaks.
That's it, folks, nothing more, nothing to see here, keep moving. But Cheney through his Faux News megaphone has usurped powers never given to a VP in the Constitution.
Therefore, he has conspired against the Constitution and the People of the United States, and is therefore a traitor. The penalty for a traitor is death, so it's time for his physicians to stop restarting his pacemaker everytime God presses Cheney's off button.
She has dead eyes and a cold, cruel smile.
Palin was wrong in saying that the VP is "in charge" of the Senate, but Pfotenhauer correctly stated taht part of the VP's role is "to preside when necessary over the US Senate" ("The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided." President = one who presides).
(Of course, it's her own damned fault for allowing Matthews to pull her into defending Palin's incorrect claim by invoking Joe Biden and a bunch of other nonsense.)
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