Palin Has No Clue

As you know Sarah Palin has been kept away from most interviews by the media, having held no press conferences, no national interviews since the infamous Katie Couric, and even sit-downs with Fox and the rest of the Conservative Media has been few and sporadic.

This week we have more proof why.

Two days ago Sarah Palin sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

Watch it here:


What is funny is that Sarah Palin herself asked this same question during a national television interview in July (before she was tagged as the GOP VP candidate, and was still doing interviews), and she still hasn’t learned the correct answer.

Article I of the Constitution establishes an exceptionally limited role for the Vice President — giving the office holder a vote only when the Senate is “equally divided”:

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

Moreover, the U.S. Senate website explains that the modern role of Vice Presidents has been to preside over the Senate “only on ceremonial occasions.”

ThinkProgress contacted Senior Assistant Paliamentarian Peter Robinson, who also disputed Palin’s characterization of the Vice President’s role:

In modern practice the Vice President doesn’t really control the Senate. … If
anyone has a responsibility to try to govern the Senate, it’s the responsibility
of the two leaders.

Keith Olbermann responded to this latest example thatSarah Palin is not ready to be the Vice President. Watch it here:

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