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Last week, a House Republican talked about preventing Joe Biden from delivering a State of the Union address. This week, a GOP senator echoed the point
Link to tweet
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-ernst-wants-stop-biden-delivering-state-union-rcna141821
Exactly one week later, Sen. Joni Ernst sat down with the same Fox host and pushed a related message.
Link to tweet
.....When the senator referenced we, she was apparently referring to proponents of her legislation on the matter. The Washington Examiner reported last week:
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) introduced a bill on Monday that would block President Joe Biden from giving a State of the Union address if he doesnt submit his budget and national security proposal on time. Congressional Republicans are backing the Send Us Budget Materials & International Tactics In Time, or SUBMIT IT, Act, which would bar leadership from inviting the president to give the State of the Union address until Congress has received his budget and national security strategy.
Part of what makes all of this odd is the fact that the White House could submit budget blueprints and national security strategies to Capitol Hill, but congressional Republicans would probably ignore them. Theres a congressional maxim thats been around for a while related to the budget process: The president proposes, Congress disposes. With this in mind, Ernst is effectively saying, Give us a budget that well quickly discard or you wont get a SOTU invitation.
Midnight Writer
(22,029 posts)Doesn't she?
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,916 posts)emulatorloo
(44,332 posts)senseandsensibility
(17,478 posts)And they will look as desperate and rude as they always do Might as well enjoy the clown show!
onecaliberal
(33,267 posts)Fuck the fascists.
BComplex
(8,174 posts)Or he could sit in the oval office and do it. That way the MTGs, Matt Gaetzes and Boeberts of the world won't be shouting "liar" from the crazy bench.
onecaliberal
(33,267 posts)catrose
(5,101 posts)Or invite them to an after party. It would be worth it to avoid the screaming monkeys.
onecaliberal
(33,267 posts)electric_blue68
(15,300 posts)brush
(54,383 posts)and the networks will cover it as the controversy will deliver and even bigger audience for it.
I kinda want there fascist bastards to try it.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Deuxcents
(16,711 posts)She doesnt have to attend so she and the other discontents can stay away. Truly sick of the whiners 🤢
Ocelot II
(116,470 posts)Until the early 20th century this had been done in writing - there's no requirement to do a speech at all, or if there is one, there's no requirement that venue for it be the House chambers. Like so many other things the Groupies Of Putin have been pissing on lately, it's just become a tradition. But since there's no specific rules for how the report to Congress must be done, Biden could commandeer a prime time TV spot and deliver it from the Oval Office if he wanted to. Or else he could just show up at the House and dare them to keep him out. But this is nothing more than the usual grandstanding, so fuck them.
Aristus
(66,750 posts)He should send an e-mail to Congress. Constitutional requirement fulfilled.
Ocelot II
(116,470 posts)He could say he emailed Congress the report (with appropriate attachments) that satisfies the constitutional requirement, and then go on to lay out what he's really done for the rest of us.
onenote
(43,160 posts)higher ratings than recent SOTU addresses because of the controversy generated by the repubs petty move.
And as a bonus, he wouldn't have to put up with the obnoxious antics of Boebert, Greene and the other assholes.
tanyev
(42,891 posts)mobeau69
(11,193 posts)sop
(10,527 posts)Diamond_Dog
(32,458 posts)Go suck an egg
JohnSJ
(92,685 posts)and have been in California since.
Stuckinthebush
(10,850 posts)I assume. It's much smaller so could only be invitation only. No GOP congress members allowed. Dem congress can sit in the balcony.
Sogo
(5,073 posts)"I can hardly wait until we, the voters of Iowa, STOP YOU as our Senator! What an embarrassment you are...."
PortTack
(32,923 posts)GiqueCee
(733 posts)Apologies to pigs everywhere for the insulting comparison.
ProudMNDemocrat
(17,196 posts)So the invitation is given by the Speaker, not by the Senate. So Joni has NOTHING to b*tch about.
Aren't there some pigs for you to castrate, Joni?
gopiscrap
(23,817 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(17,196 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,973 posts)malaise
(270,245 posts)pig sties