many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president and his superfluous excellen excellency. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do, i think you d probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and s
we as a nation spend the best part of the year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place. since then, party bosses have recorded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents. at best, it s a compromise. at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin, when the constitution was written, said we should refer to the vice president as his superfulous excellency. i think the quote that wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit. what does the vice president do? you would get a shrug of the shoulders. people would be asked, who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we formed this nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if you look back over the last 200 and some years, was described in all kinds of ways, most of which meant inconse
best part of a year selecting our president. many of the founding fathers fought against creating the vice presidency in the first place, and since then, party bosses have regarded it as a political graveyard. the system has produced some worthy vice presidents, but at best, it s a compromise, and at worst, it s a game of roulette with the nation s destiny. ben franklin when the constitution was written said we should refer to the vice president as a superfluous excellencely. i always think of john nance garner and his quote that it wasn t worth a bucket of warm spit, and that s cleaning up what he said. if you ask the american people what does the vice president do? i think you would probably get a shrug of the shoulders. you might even be asked who is the vice president? let s do it. i think when we were formed as a nation and the constitution was shaped, not an awful lot of thought was given to the vice presidency. the office as a general proposition, if
cleveland 19 news sponsored by national carpet mill outlet. ohio s flooring superstore. asking questions. getting answers. cleveland 19 news starts now. denise: we start with breaking news on a bad accident that shutdown i-480. police have just reopened all of the eastbound the far left lane. the multi-car crash happened at west 130th about 9:30 tonight. we are trying to get answers on what caused the crash. when we do we ll post-it on our website, cleveland 19.com. denise: get the hot dogs and hamburgers ready. it is going to be a great looking holiday weekend. chris: oh my gosh. how warm will it get? meteorologist jeff tanchak is tracking the first alert details. jeff: generally speaking we will be warming as the weekend wears on. with the humidity low we are talking about pleasant days followed by the cool nights. we are seeing that tonight and we will see that tomorrow night and we will see that on sunday night. a cool night and sun-filled days. warming trend espe
we re going to start with that incredible homecoming overnight, 340 days in the making. early this morning astronaut scott kelly arrived in houston aboard a nasa jet from asia and he was greeted by his girlfriend and two daughters plus his twin brother mark and his wife gabby giffords. well, kelly is getting used to gravity again after spending most of the last year on board the international space station. abc s david kerley is at the johnson space center in houston. good morning, david. reporter: guy, scott kelly is back here in houston and what a trip it s been. it would have been great to get here quicker. i m used to going 17,500 miles an hour, but this airplane doesn t do quite that so it took us some time. reporter: several years ago he let me get inside this soyuz capsule here in houston. it is very tight in there. that s why he was so happy when they got on the ground in kazakhstan. you heard him talking about breathing in the frigid air. everybody was in h