And, for Ruth Bader Ginsberg to take a nap.
Posted on 01/17/2019 3:45:10 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends)
By dis-inviting President Donald Trump from delivering the annual State of the Union address to a joint session of congress, Speaker San Fran Nan provides the President with a golden opportunity to do one of two great things for our nation: Eliminate the State of the Union tradition entirely, or move it to America’s heartland, where it belongs, and deliver it to real Americans.
Contrary to all the bad information spread all over social media yesterday, no president is under any constitutional obligation to give this speech. All the constitution requires of the president is that he or she “from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.”
Right up until the despicable Woodrow Wilson decided to start making a speech in 1913 to congress to satisfy this obligation, American presidents had done it in writing. Somehow, the nation survived.
The truth is that this annual bit of Kabuki Theatre is a tremendous waste of time, nothing more than a tedious opportunity for a president to brag about successes that may or may not be real, for members of the opposition party to sit on their hands and scowl while he does so, and for mental midgets like former Illinois congressman Luis Guitierrez to get up and walk out. The entire exercise is incredibly tiresome and frankly not good in any way for the country.
President Trump would be doing the nation a huge favor by dispensing with this nonsense altogether. Just put the final version of the speech in the U.S. mail on January 29, addressed to Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and spend the rest of that day getting rid of more of the un-American legacy of Barack Hussein Obama. Productive work is always a good thing.
But if the President decides he must deliver a speech in order to take advantage of the opportunity to speak to the nation on national television unfiltered by the preening peacocks in the national fake news media, then why not take it out of the cesspool that is Washington, D.C., and move it to a place where real Americans live and work and breathe the flyover country air?
Take it to Pittsburgh, one of the great cities of America’s Rust Belt, which is experiencing a tremendous renaissance in recent years, and which led the way in delivering Pennsylvania’s electoral votes to Donald Trump in November, 2016. Rent the city’s largest arena and deliver the speech to 15,000 appreciative Pennsylvanians.
Or take it to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the state the Pantsuit Princess couldn’t be bothered to visit, or Detroit, Michigan, states that hadn’t voted for any GOP presidential candidate in this century, but that helped put Trump in the White House in 2016.
If you want to take it to the heart of the Heartland, there’s always St. Louis or Dallas, both great cities with big, secure airports and millions of real citizens who would rush for the chance to witness a formal presidential speech.
But if he really wants to make an impact, if he really wants to focus on the border security issue, take the speech to San Antonio or even the Rio Grande Valley, fill the arena with 15,000 Texans, and invite every mother and father and sister and brother who have lost loved ones to violent crimes committed by illegal aliens to occupy the seats closest to the stage.
Regardless of where the speech is held, invite every member of congress to attend as well, but ensure that they all must stand on-line with everyone else, enter the arena along with everyone else, and sit in random seats out among the real people, so that they can experience the speech as real Americans experience it, and maybe even have a conversation with a real American or two while they’re doing it.
Wouldn’t that be something?
Donald Trump is a natural disrupter – always has been, always will be. He doesn’t just ignore stuffy and stupid and non-productive traditions – like the annual White House Correspondents Dinner – he destroys them. It’s why he was elected to the presidency in the first place.
By sending him her incredibly dishonest and embarrassingly vapid letter, Speaker San Fran Nan has handed Mr. Trump a golden opportunity to play the disrupter again, and do it in a way that turns a tedious and tiresome Washington D.C. tradition into an event that involves and benefits real, ordinary Americans.
Of course, the most likely outcome here is that the President will, later today, simply inform the Speaker that her concerns about “security” issues are absurd, and that he will be at the House Chamber at 9:00 ET on January 29 to deliver the speech as she invited him to do on January 3, which by the way was already two weeks into this fake, partial government “shutdown.”
But wouldn’t be wonderful, wouldn’t it be a fantastic thing if he did something else?
Yes, yes it would. Just do it, Mr. President, do it for the people.
That is all.
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This presents a spectacular opportunity for Trump. Deliver the text of his State of the Union address to Congress to comply with his constitutional responsibility, then schedule a YUGE rally in support of the wall and deliver the State of the Union directly to the American people.
Who wants to see a bunch of mopey dims in handmaids outfits sit there and pout while Pelosi scowls and sucks her teeth. Starve them for their camera moment. Do it from the Oval Office. Better yet, have a MAGA rally.
Yes-but...watching the Liberals in the audience carry on with their infantile, self-conscious, over-rehearsed ‘reactions’ to the President, is the most fun you will ever have viewing a political speech. :)
Liberals routinely, and predictably cover themselves with s*&t at these events. They apparently have NO idea how preposterous they make themselves appear.
Also, these performances categorically strengthen public opinion of them as NO-CLASS, insecure, self-important and utterly asinine jerks.
It’s almost like they are following a blueprint on, ‘How to make yourself totally ridiculous’
Time for a Trump Rally.
And, for Ruth Bader Ginsberg to take a nap.
Yes. Nancy gave our president a wonderful gift. Typical Rat. They never see beyond the next step. So she gets her way in not having him speak in the House. She didn’t consider the next step(s), i.e., it opens up a dozen more venues for him, all of which are better than the first. Dolt.
Athens, TN. True. In front of the plaque memorializing the battle there.
In 2018, Trump went around the country giving is SOTU speech. We saw dozens of them.
The SOTU shouldn’t be a political rally. It should be accomplishments for the year. This takes the oppositions rhetoric about “nothing new here” off the table and forces them to comment on what Trump did in fact do for America.
And this is why it must be given in DC. So we can compel darth vader Ginsburg to appear (if she is alive).
I think she’s already died and the rats are just hiding the body. All of her votes and inputs are suspect until she returns to the bench and proves she is really the one making those votes.
Nancy probably doesn’t want the usual setting as this would show a vacant Ginsburg seat.
"He (President) shall from time to time give Congress Information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient".
However, it is the next sentence that needs our attention!
"[H]e may on extraordinary Occassions, convene both Houses, or either of them, ..."
The Constitution puts the ball in the President's court. If he desires, he can compel both houses to convene to hear the SotU.
Trump should show up at the appointed time. If the democrats are not there he can point that out. He can also reference the FBI corruption and how he is cleaning out the crooks and closing in on the traitors.
I bet Pelosi, if there will swallow her dentures.
“All of her votes and inputs are suspect until she returns to the bench and proves she is really the one making those votes.”
That’s just horrifying. But I don’t put it past the Rats to be doing that.
Does the Walter Reed medical center have an auditorium? If so, have it there with the patients and staff present. The politicians can watch it on TV.
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