06-17-2024, 01:35 PM
Dunno why people are so down on Harris, other than possibly she’s too nice (and too female).
VP’s are just not afforded the opportunity to do much. Cheney was perhaps the most active (or in the news) in my recollection, and that didn’t work out so well (“We believe Iraq has reconstituted nuclear weapons”). Agnew was an attack dog; that didn’t end well either.
As John Nance Garner (one of FDR’s VPs) famously said, being VP was “not worth a bucket of warmpiss spit”.
VP’s are just not afforded the opportunity to do much. Cheney was perhaps the most active (or in the news) in my recollection, and that didn’t work out so well (“We believe Iraq has reconstituted nuclear weapons”). Agnew was an attack dog; that didn’t end well either.
As John Nance Garner (one of FDR’s VPs) famously said, being VP was “not worth a bucket of warm