Posted on 01/16/2019 8:38:03 PM PST by caww
Oh, me either. I started following him on Twitter since he took office.
Honestly, if SNL had not skewered him I don’t think he’d be getting the media appearances and followers that he has. Some, but not to this level.
Trump should tweet the SOTU line by line.
Let them respond to it... it will be a spectacle
We’re watching Nanzi. You want to set precedents? We are taking notes.
Same here, I wouldn’t have known about Rep. Crenshaw if Pete Davidson hadn’t been such a loser.
Anything that $100 billion could be spent on, is taken out of the mouths (or services, if you will) of our citizens.
“extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.”
LEGISLATIVE ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT
AND he can take CARE of all the laws that they be faithfully executed. And read the rest!
Can you tell me where you have pulled that from?
I wouldn’t mind reviewing it, but it will help if you tell me where I can access it.
Is it part of the U. S. Constitution?
My concern, if Trump did that, would be that the press would portray it as sans-Constiutional, and would play it up that he was going rogue against the U. S. Constitution.
While we can support the idea he could explain it, the media would do their best to destroy him.
I advocated for something like this a week to ten days ago, so I’m not totally against it.
Congress has gone totally rogue IMO. I’m not limiting that to the Democrats either.
Trump’s own party members failed him miserably over the last two years.
Its in the constitution. Art 2 section 3.
Here is an opinion that makes that article specifically clear. Not mine mind you.
“The Constitution explicitly assigns the president the power to sign or veto legislation, command the armed forces, ask for the written opinion of their Cabinet, convene or adjourn Congress, grant reprieves and pardons, and receive ambassadors.”
Furthermore, he has the authority to “commission” to carry out the laws of the United States. Although he CAN NOT make law, he can carry them out.
He has the authority to suspend sessions of congress till he deems it proper to re-convene.
No president has ever used this power and it is within his constitutional authority to do so. Its a check for a out of control congress or a congress that will not do its job.
Video of him sliding a copy of his SOTU speech under the door at the House, then on to the rally with invited guests and GOP only in attendance.
Oh I doubt he would use it, but the time comes who the hell knows.
They better tread VERY carefully on this and THEY had better get their brains unscrambled. Since they are hell bent on civil war, maybe its time to bring this to a head and nail it down.
They are simply doing what the hell they ever want as of now. The house that is. The senate is the same ol.
Didnt know this did you. I didnt either till I started to research that part.
The last day or so that is. I got to re-read the constitutional convention debates and see what the founders opinions were.
Thank you. I’ll check that out.
Quite interesting.
There hasn’t been a Congress more of a failure than this one to this point. I would say that although there were some high spots during the last one, I think our party leaders failed us miserably for not introducing and passing all the things they begged us to give them majority for, so they could do them.
Trump would send the Left into a total melt-down if he did send them home.
I’d like to see them stay home until the wall is built.
That would stop any shenanigans, from the halls of Congress.
Thanks for your source on that. I appreciate it.
This explains it far better than I could.
All he has to do is get the senate majority leader to demand the house adjourn, and when they do not...then BAM. Down she goes.
But he has to let them back into session once a year per the constitution.
Dumb ass Pelousy would fall for this hook line and sinker.
Thank you.
My first thought was wow these people learned nothing at all from the judicial filibuster nuke.
My second thought is that they cannot be this stupid for real and that it is perhaps more likely that they are being as divisive as possible on purpose as part of a long term strategy to weaken us domestically, perhaps in the pay of a hostile foreign power like China or Pakistan.
Rep. Crenshaw’s reasoning is fine so far as it goes.
But I have to wonder if he realizes that the DemonRATs
just tossed Trump a fat pitch that he will surely knock over the fence in some highly original fashion.
Several FRiends have suggested on other threads that Trump deliver his State of the Union at a campaign rally somewhere outside of D.C.
This I like ... a lot. Especially if he does it in a swing state like Pennsylvania, close enough to D.C. that Congress critters have little excuse for not making the trip.
Imagine the optics ... a stadium full of Patriots in MAGA gear, with one sparsely populated section reserved for officials.
Seems like a big statement to me.
The answer is quite simple and very 21st century - IF the Speaker of the House doesn’t invite the President to deliver his State of the Union address in the House chamber, the President simply makes that delivery on live television.
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