Hardball: Matthews Hammers Pfotenhauer Over Palin
Chris Mataws talks to Bill Burton & Nancy Pfotenhauer & hammers Pfotenhauer over who’s decision it was to spend a $150,000 on her clothing, & why she doesn’t know what a role of a Vice President is.
Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back
October 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am
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.” 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.