What's realistic and what's not on Veep

Finished Season 3 and started Season 4 of the hilarious HBO Julia Louis-Dreyfus vehicle Veep, and continue to find it not only one of the best ensemble shows on TV but painfully accurate (and of courses extremely exaggerated for comic effect) about government operations and staff support. I'm sure that anyone with experience in the field will recognize the types, and I'll say no more about that. Over the course of the series, so far, we've watch JLD rise in power and in self-assurance - by the end of Season 3 (possible spoilers to follow) she ascends to the presidency when the prez - whom we never see and in fact whose name we never learn - resigns to care for the ill first lady - but she's still in midst of a failing campaign for election. All of this feeds her ego and leads to increasingly levels of tension, pressure, and jockeying for power among her staff and among a new set of sycophants and hangers-on. One thing I have to note that's not realistic: although it works as part of the drama, JLD would not bring her vice-presidential running mate into the position of VP on her ascendance; the Constitution calls for the new president to nominate a VP, for Senate approval (it's happened only once), so the position would be vacant for a while. First episode of Season 4, when JLD delivers her first State of the Nation Address and staff fumbles through multiple re-writes and then the ultimate disaster, the wrong v. posted on her Teleprompter, is any staff member's nightmare and, believe me, it's one episode that could almost certainly occur in real time.