Her role is primarily legislative, according to Glenn, who disapproves of the Gore/Cheney model of heavy Veep involvement in the executive branch.

My one concern there would be that the Veep must be kept "up to speed" on critical matters that she would have to deal with, were the President himself to die or become incapacitated. And any areas that represents knowledge gaps (such as foreign policy for Palin, keeping his mouth shut for Biden) would be areas they should want to work on actively, as opposed to the old canard that the Veep's job is "to sit around and wait for the President to die."

Ideally, the Veep would be kept busy: monitoring some of the President's policy meetings, receiving a number of the same briefings—keeping up-to-speed, should her services be needed in the top office—but, yes: presiding over the Senate, as the Constitution demands.

Here's the long version of Reynolds' article.

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