01-23-2019, 10:45 PM
(01-23-2019, 10:38 PM)hollodero Wrote: But they are the head of the party, and the key figures in the matter at hand. Wouldn't it look weird to send someone less important out?
(01-23-2019, 10:41 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Not really. They trotted out that dude with drool running out of his mouth after the last SOTU if I recall
(01-23-2019, 10:43 PM)hollodero Wrote: Yeah and it was weird.
It's almost never the head of the party. They play it up as this honor to do it, but in truth the officials that give the response usually take a hit to their political careers in some form.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
