The Only Winning Move

Attaboy, George! George Will has another excellent column out today echoing things I have said (main difference: people read Will) about McCain’s superficially appealing but ultimately goofy idea of appearing before Congress in a Westminster-style Prime Minister’s Questions with the legislature. Will covers all the points I did, but then tells me something I didn’t know. Apparently the “State of the Union” speech was only ever meant to be ceremonial, and in fact from Jefferson (who was uncomfortable with it) all the way to Wilson, it was delivered in writing, and Congress gave written replies. Maybe, rather than going full-ahead with a scheme common in constitutional monarchies, we could get back to this format instead? Hell, send it by email, for all I care.