I’d like to see it become law that POTUS has to deliver his SOTU address via television while in the free-fall portion of a sky dive. It would make for brevity, and also, in future elections, the voting public would start paying attention to who’s the VP on the ticket.
You’re the last person I would tell.
Because (sigh) Obama has repeatedly indicated that he has a pen and a phone and he doesn’t need Congress. If Obama doesn’t need Congress, why do you think Obama needs Congress? Teleprompters are portable, Obama can give his SOTU address from anywhere.
What odds will you give me for a bet that Obama will “decide” to give the SOTU as it is usually done?
It’s nice to see that you’re dating again. Go get 'em, Tiger.
If I win the bet, will there be honey, Honey? :eek:
Just so you’re no longer confused about my position on where I expect Obama to deliver his SOTU address, I fully expect Obama to be speaking from the U.S. House floor. I also expect that Congress will unanimously pass a resolution allowing the event to happen.
Noted. No need to engage with the silliness any more, then.
Because he wants to pass legislation.
WHAT? But, but, but what about the huge, Underoo-bunching, DNC-fostered, LSM-championed, one (1) Republican-Congressman-doesn’t-want-Obama-to-give-his-SOTU-address-from-the-U.S. House-floor crisis that this country is facing? Oh, the humanity…
Pussy.
You would think so, but I’m not so sure. Obama can continue to issue Executive Memoranda, or Executive Orders, or Executive Privilage and, what is it that Obama sez, something about Congress then passing a bill to change or override his edicts?
If Obama wanted to pass legislation that has been created thru debate and compromise as it passed thru Congress, he could have done so. Unfortunately, Obama doesn’t seem to have the job skills to push a bill thru Congress. Odd, considering that Obama did spent time voting present as a member of the U.S. Senate.
The president has the constitutional power to issue executive orders. That power is limited, and as the President has said many times, is no substitute for Congressional action. Your Saint Ronnie issued 381 executive orders, almost twice as many as President Obama, so I don’t know what you are complaining about.
By the way, I have been unable to find anywhere that President Obama said, “I don’t need Congress.”
Cite, or it didn’t happen.
Not this Congress. 
How do you you cite headcanon?
Oh the humanity…? On the contrary, I’m rooting for it! Please, please, Republicans in Congress – please do this! Pretty please?
You have an interesting fantasy life.
Regrettably, you do not.
Too bad for your side that Obama has already made up his mind. I’ll tell you exactly when he did that too: January 20, 2013, the day he was inaugurated. Or one could make a case for November 6, 2012, election day. Once those events happened, it was a forgone conclusion that Obama will address Congress. Now the childishly cartoonish GOP wants to rescind that automatic invitation.
No, I don’t care about your parsing or semantics, what I’ve stated is fact. But you know what the great thing is? It doesn’t matter. You can call the mainstream media all the names you want, but you know what would happen if Obama doesn’t speak at the SOTU? The GOP will get the blame! And most of the country will consider the GOP to be petulant children! No amount of reality denying will change that!
So for your sake, if someone wants to take your stupid and idiotic side in this discussion, you better pray that the GOP tucks their tails between their legs and sheepishly hands Obama an invitation, that’s the least bad thing that will come out of all this. If you want the invitation to go any other way, your side will lose and lose big in the court of public opinion and poison the well from the beginning of this session with no hope of getting back any kind of moral highground
Gee it must suck to believe (erroneously) that you’re right but still know that no matter what you do, you’ll be considered at fault. Doesn’t that just sting?
Interesting chart there.
It would seem that Obama has issued fewer executive orders PER YEAR than any president since GROVER CLEVELAND 1885 - 1889.
Saint who???
The numbers of previous EO’s issued is an interesting factoid.
It’s also well known that legislation is passed by Congress, or if you prefer, Congress passes legislation.
Meanwhile, to address your post -
‘I’ve got a pen, and I’ve got a phone’: Obama threatens to bypass embattled Congress with bully pulpit executive actions on economy
By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press
Published: 18:21 EST, 14 January 2014 Updated: 19:56 EST, 14 January 2014
*President Barack Obama vowed Tuesday to use the power of executive actions to bypass the unfriendly Republican-controlled House in order to advance his liberal economic agenda.
Obama focused on improving the up-and-down economic recovery as he convened his first Cabinet meeting of 2014 and made clear he’ll be doing so with or without the help of the embattled Congress.
‘We’re not just going to be waiting for legislation in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans the kind of help they need,’ the president said.
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From the video -
*One of the things I’ll be emphasizing in this meeting is the fact that
we are not just going to be waiting for legislation
in order to make sure that we’re providing Americans with the kind of help that they need. I’ve got a pen and I’ve got a phone. And I can use that pen to sign Executive Orders, and take executive actions, and administrative actions that move the ball forward in helping to make sure our kids are getting the best education possible, making sure that our businesses are getting the kind of support and help they need to grow and advance, to make sure that people are getting the skills they need to get
those jobs that our businesses are creating.
And I’ve got a phone that allows me to convene Americans from every walk of life. Non-profits, businesses, the private sector, universities, to try to bring more and more Americans together around, around what I think is a unifying theme, making sure that, this is a country, where if you work hard, you can make it. And so one of the things that I’m going to be talking to my cabinet about is, how do we use all the tools available to us,
not just legislation,
in order to advance a mission that, I think, unifies all Americans. The belief that everybody’s got to take responsibility, everybody’s got to work hard, but if you do you can support a family*…
Plus, Obama admitted that businesses create jobs. Which is a good thing that he could admit that.