Nancy Pelosi isn't "asking"

[SHRED]

Link to tweet

[stonecutter357]

1. K&R

[Farmer-Rick]

2. If he continues to keep our government closed

His secret service should also stop being paid for by our taxes.

[pangaia]

10. Maybe they will then call in sick.

[Little Star]

3. Hear, hear!

[EarnestPutz]

4. I especially like how Speaker Pelosi hung the security angle...

...around the Secretary of Homeland Security's neck.
Neilsen goes to border with Trump and tells us how dangerous
the country is and how our security is compromised without a
wall to keep terrorists out. Thanks, Kirstjen, we'd better keep
your idiot, attention hound boss at arms length until we have
better government funding.

[BlueJac]

5. Go Nancy...

this man can not handle a real tough women!! He is a monster but a total weakling when confronted by a tough woman like Nancy!

[ffr]

6. Thank you Shred! Most of the other post headlines I read got it all wrong.

And if the Russian spy agents show up anyway, turn the lights out on them and keep them off.

[PoliticAverse]

7. That's right she's "suggest"ing, but suggestions can be ignored. n/t

[flibbitygiblets]

8. The Speaker has to invite the POTUS to the house for SOTU. Otherwise he has to either

address the Senate or put it in writing. Or so I read elsewhere today here on DU.

[The Wielding Truth]

11. So if he's not invited, he has to summit it in writ ting and that's it?

[former9thward]

12. No.

The Constitution says next to nothing about what we now call the SOTU. Trump could give it anywhere he wants or not give it at all. There are no formal requirements.

[The Wielding Truth]

19. hmm. If there is no security then it would be wise to not gather all fed's in one spot.

[2naSalit]

15. It means he can submit it

in any other form than personally before the House/General Assembly of the entire Congress and SCOTUS. It is the House who issues the invitation and it has now been rescinded. You don't go to a party at somebody's house if they told you they had to cancel the party.

He can do it on camera from the WH, he can send it in writing or he can stand in front of the Senate, but they didn't invite him in the first place. That's what it means.

[The Wielding Truth]

18. oh. thanks.

[GetRidOfThem]

9. ROFL!!!

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Gotta give Nancy some credit here!!!

[DeminPennswoods]

13. The diplomatic language will take awhile for

Trump to figure out, but eventually he'll understand that he won't get a primetime, national address. He can either sign the bills to re-open government before next week and get his public face time or he can send over a written report.

I suppose he could give the SOTU from somewhere in the WH but, his recent Oval Office speech went over like a lead balloon and Dems would get a chance to respond.

[2naSalit]

16. Dems alway respond anyway.

[DeminPennswoods]

20. Not sure they would to a written report

since few would read that or their answer.

[2naSalit]

21. I'm pretty sure we'd be hearing about it right away.

This is not normal and it must be dealt with and I think we will be treated like We the People by this House. The report is to the House, it will be a big deal either way.

[cp]

14. Thank you, Madame Speaker!

[spike jones]

17. We can expect Trump to hold a huge rally and give the SOTU, Nuremberg style.nt