And HE and most of the media will make it look like Nancy is the one with bad manners and who is being so mean. I still want her to say no, just saying at least 1/2 of this will be laid at her feet.
Try picturing a battering ram mounted on a golf cart.
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Once again, there is no ‘constitutional requirement for a verbal SOTU’
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O my god! I love it. I really can see it - the fat man driving the golf court into the Capitol and battering at the doors to the House. hahahahahahahahaha And the doors stand fast and the battering ram collapses and the golf cart overturns and he’s squashed like a gigantic orange roach.
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While getting my Master’s degree, I interned one summer at a company in San Francisco at South Van Ness and Market.
Across the street was a run down apartment building, where, at a daily scheduled time, some guy vigorously “tossed off” at his open window in full view of the office workers.
He did show some modesty, though. His shades were lowered enough to conceal his face.
He was mostly ignored, however, since he was old hat by the time I arrived.
But the managers I worked for did have a pair of binoculars within easy reach.
Not to watch Happy Jack, but to get a good look at the naked female sunbathers on a nearby roof.
Understood. What I meant was that if given verbally instead of in writing, the entire Congress has to be addressed, and they won’t fit in the Senate chamber.
I suppose the WH lawyers could split hairs and send a written copy of the speech to the House, with the same thing given verbally to the Senate. They might actually try this. I still don’t think McConnell would allow it. If an earlier post is correct about 60 votes needed for a Senate invitation, it would be out of his hands anyway.
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Pelosi holds the keys to the House chamber, both metaphorically and actually. So, I assume the Chamber’s doors will be locked. I also assume that Trump will march up to the doors and make a show of knocking three times, demanding an entrance, and that the networks will give him all the coverage that their Reality TV Star deserves. After all, he’s great ratings.
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Despite the satisfaction snubbing Trump would provide I can see several influential Dems counseling Pelosi there is risk in refusing him the traditional trappings of a SOTU. Hard to say which way this will play out.
There would be bigger risk in her back-pedaling.
No, it’s pretty straight forward: open the government, he can have the speech.
She’s not going to budge.
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There is little risk as long as she continues to frame it the right way. “The POTUS is welcome to deliver the SOTU address in the House, just as soon as the government is opened and Federal employees can get back to work.” Keep hammering on the legitimate reason why, and not just Nancy being a mean girl to Donnie.
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Agreed. But if there is some sort of convoluted, arcane, obscure, circa 1822 statute, whatever route no one has cited that Trump can employ to force his way into the chambers rest assured he’ll try it.
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He certainly won’t stay away from the Capitol Building, but I think there are fewer R senators willing to bond with him nowadays. Esp. the batch who are vulnerable in 2020.
NDP can be both a mean girl and a brainy girl. Easy when the occupant is a dumb patsy for the Russians and in thrall to his uninformed base.
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Won’t that make a fun Daily News cover. Prez with baseball bat swinging and missing at the Capitol doors.
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Ummmmmm…aren’t the Goopers currently making some kind of noise about “media stunts”…?
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We do, but don’t count on it. I believe he’ll have to be voted out.
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What are they gonna do if he shows up anyway? Arrest him? Turn him away? That would be sweet.
He is too much of a coward. He never does confrontation directly. Never.
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