A conservative POTUS could make a big splash by returning the SOTU to just a written document, like it was from the time of Jefferson to that of Woodrow Wilson. It would stop the waste of a month of government time and tens of millions of dollars on that utterly nonsensical “dog and pony show”.
The conservative POTUS could do even more by removing Washington, D.C., especially the POTUS, from the news every single night. Perhaps once a month, the White House would put out a statement to the press, covering the previous month’s highlights, and that is it.
The truth is that America is sick to death of the “dope opera” of egoists in Washington, D.C. They are supposed to run the government, not just continuously brawl on “info-tainment” “news” shows.
The bottom line of a conservative POTUS doing this would be to make what statements the White House put out important again, eliminating the obsessive trivia that invades and annoys the lives of the citizenry.
“A conservative POTUS could make a big splash by returning the SOTU to just a written document...”
Yes, it could be a big part of the UN-DO agenda I’d like our next (non-dem) president to enact.
Or how about this, give the state of the union directly to the public, via TV, etc. No stage craft for congress. They can all watch TV too, if they are so inclined.
A true conservative POTUS would cut the federal government in half and the federal budget by one trillion dollars in four years. How?
1. Eliminate DoE, DoEd, Labor, Commerce.
2. Cut EPA, TSA, IRS, DoJ, NSA and half the people at the Pentagon.
3. Privatize USPS, Fannie and Freddie Mae.
4. Audit the Federal Reserve.
5. Cut taxes.
And on the second day,