
kenneth craft
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kenneth craft
@kencraft
retired, combat medic, medical provider, tired of all the division, hoping for more common sense and be kind to each other.



I've seen my post all over the internet. Time for another repost here.












THUNE IS ABUSING POWER THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO HIM The real constitutional position of President of the Senate belongs to VP JD Vance, not to any senator (Thune), JD Vance is the actual Presiding Officer The Constitution gave these powers to the Vice President Over time, the Senate created unofficial party leader positions (Majority/Minority Leader) that now exercise most of that power instead The Founders built the Vice President’s Senate role on purpose to stop senators from having total control The Constitution deliberately made the Vice President (now JD Vance) President of the Senate as a smart check on insider power, modern Majority Leader dominance is not constitutional, and Republicans should use the VP to “nuke the filibuster” and pass the SAVE America Act with a simple majority The VP is not a member of the Senate, so he brings no personal self-interest or bias toward his own state. This keeps every state’s representation equal and gives a fair tie-breaker (as Alexander Hamilton explained in Federalist No. 68) It places the VP inside the legislative branch for daily work, but outside the Senate’s own membership a built-in safeguard against pure Senate control or executive overreach 📜 What the Constitution Actually Says Article I, Section 3: The Vice President is the President of the Senate. The Senate must pick a President pro tempore to fill in only when the Vice President is absent. Article I, Section 5: The Senate can choose its own other officers and make its own rules The Founders deliberately made the Vice President President of the Senate as a check on insider power, The writers of the Constitution deliberately gave the Vice President the job of President of the Senate They wanted an independent person the VP, to keep an eye on things and stop any one group of senators from running everything Modern Majority Leader dominance is not constitutional The powerful role of the Senate Majority Leader (today, that’s John Thune) did not come from the Constitution













