DUCK-NADO!!!!!..............
Posted on 01/28/2014 11:55:48 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Did Willie Robertson have another choice? Like spending the night neck deep in the bayou or appearing as a guest on the View? Why is he being punished?
IT WOULD SOUND LIKE A DUCK-NADO!!!!!!!........................
DUCK-NADO!!!!!..............
Bayou Vortex.
Too bad he wasn’t President!
Pray America is Waking
Hmmmm. Think of the political statement representatives not showing up to listen to a president that has no integrity. Freep all representatives asking them to ditch?
A misconception found even in some academic literature is that the State of the Union is an orally delivered message presented to a joint session of Congress. With a few exceptions, this has been true in the modern era (ca. 1933-present, see Neustadt or Greenstein). However, beginning with Jefferson’s 1st State of the Union (1801) and lasting until Taft’s final message (1912), the State of the Union was a written (and often lengthy) report sent to Congress to coincide with a new Session of Congress..
Federalists Washington and Adams had personally addressed the Congress, but Jefferson was concerned that the practice of appearing before the representatives of the people was too similar to the British monarch’s practice of addressing each new Parliament with a list of policy mandates, rather than “recommendations.”
Jefferson’s practice changed in 1913 with Woodrow Wilson. Wilson believed the presidency was more than a impersonal institution and active and visible presidential leadership was needed to the people and the Congress. As an expression of this philosophy, Wilson delivered oral messages to Congress, citing the authority of the Constitution.
For health reasons, Wilson did not address Congress in 1919 and 1920. Warren Harding’s two messages (1921 and 1922) and Calvin Coolidge’s first (1923) were also oral messages. Subsequently, Coolidge’s remaining State of the Unions (1924-28) and all four of Hoover’s (1929-32) were written.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sou.php
Thank you. You made me smarter.
It was news to me as well. I looked it up after VanDeKoik talked about Jefferson and the SOTU.
We all learn from each other.
I always said "No, thank you".
“let me be clear...”
Is Beyonce there?
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