Of course not, but a call for a meeting is not having all the power. Somebody has to make the decision on this. I am sure that even the founders would be cool with a person calling a meeting. I don’t think that is too much to ask. The way the Congress is getting, I don’t want President Palin to ask the Congress for a meeting and have the Congress tell her to f off which is about how politics is heading. We can’t always decide things on this current President. He will be gone in either one year or five years and we will have another Republican President who we don’t want to be treated nasty by the Congress. That much I do know.
Well looks like you need to get started on a campaign to amend the constitution with a new clause that reads:
The president shall call Congress into a joint session any time he/she damn well feels like it.
Good luck.