Posted on 12/03/2014 7:51:02 PM PST by tellw
I'm not sure the country is quite ready for a total cancellation of the State of the Union much as i feel it justified. But how about a compromise and ask that the President come and give it during the daytime? In the UK the Queen's Speech to the Opening of Parliament (which is the closest equivalent to the SOTU) is held during the daytime.
It would definitely annoy the White House to not get their 3 hours of night time spotlight but there's nothing unreasonable about moving this speech to the daytime. It would save money (don't have to pay staff overtime) and stimulate the economy (broadcast networks can run their regular entertainment programs). Thoughts?
Great!
Do you have a special button on your remote that is programed to do that and, if so, where can I get one?
It can’t be handwritten ‘cause we’d recognize who actually wrote it. Right. Valerie?
TR was asked if he could do something about Alice and replied that he could run the country or control Alice, but he couldn't do both of them at the same time.
I believe she is the one who said, "If you can't say anything nice about a person, come here and sit next to me."
It should be exclusively on Pay-Per-View, with the proceeds going towards paying down the national debt!
Up until around Woodrow Wilson there was no such thing as a State of the Union address. The Constitution requires the president give a report to Congress once a year. Prior to Wilson it was given in writing and read to Congress by one of their clerks.
When did Jefferson run for a third term?
I thought the issue was giving the State of the Union address in person or sending over a written message. Teddy Roosevelt was elected only once. His first term, filling out McKinley’s term, was 3 and a half years so he said he wouldn’t run again in 1908. Obviously he changed his mind in 1912 with disastrous results (the election of Woodrow Wilson). But Grant earlier had tried to get a third term.
Never mind Jefferson - except for Washington in 1790, NO President delivered his report to Congress in person until Woodrow Wilson in 1913, and a written report was substituted as recently as 1981.
Congress CLEARLY does not have to provide THIS venue for Obama's required report to them, and, IMO, they shouldn't.
On failing to receive his party's nomination, Grant had no intention of anything like T. Rex's egomaniacal conceit.
Some Grant biographer's claim he wanted the nomination, others argue he quite clearly did not. Since there is not a single letter, public utterance, or diary entry that he wanted a third term, I think we must side with the claim that he was not very interested.
Failing that, the authoritative source must surely be Julia, the person who knew Grant best:
How I entreated him to…appear on the floor at the (1880 Republican) convention…but no! He said he would rather cut off his right hand. I said: ‘Do you not desire success?’ ‘Well, yes, of course,’ he said, ‘since my name is up, I would rather be nominated, but I will do nothing to further that end.’
As a matter of fact, of ALL the things they could do to highlight the lawlessness of this regime — and to signal that he is not a dictator who can bypass what the Founders clearly intended to be the most powerful branch of government at will — would be to send him a note to the effect that he is not invited to appear in their venue.
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