June 4, 2025

The vice-presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm piss.

John Nance Garner (1868–1967), American politician and vice president, O. C. Fisher, Cactus Jack (1978), Jay p.148

Hasn’t Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s portrayal of an American vice-president proven it is an altogether superfluous pitcher of warm piss?

Having served from 1931 to 1933, as speaker of the House of Representatives—no small matter, he ascended to the office of vice president of the United States, serving from 1933 to 1937—the first officer in line of succession to the president, but in every other regard a nonentity. Then again, one vice-president saved the U.S.A. a deal of trouble—and redeemed himself in the eyes of many not of his party—in one recent (2021) instance.