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In fact, why most political scholars kind of hate the Electoral College. Its not popular among the Political Science set. Youll get a whiff of George Edwards book which hopefully youve read most of it, if not all of it. You get an argument against the Electoral College. He lays out all the comments for it, which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we elect the president but very few americans understand the full extent of the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency, you should walk away understanding how the process we use to select our chief executive officer works, ....
Watch quote washington journal 7 00 eastern tuesday morning. Join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Continues. Host we are joined next by former federal Emergency ManagementAgency Administrator craig fugate. Thank you for being with us on washington journal this morning. Guest thanks for having me. Host a number of items on our plate including the covid19 response. First, to the response to hurricane laura. The hurricane coming effectively the same week marking 15 years since hurricane katrina. What lessons do think fema and the federal government learned in terms of response to hurricanes in particular . Guest i think the biggest lesson was that we dont wait until we are asked to start getting ready. To be ana, there seem lot of confusion about the governor ha ....
Roughly referring to the war powers resolution enacted in 1970. That law is complicated. One of the things it does is says if the president puts troops abroad into hostilities and we havent been attacked, if he does that, he needs to follow the law which says notify congress. Tell them what youre doing. Justify it. Whats the legal authorization and whats next . How long will they be there and so forth . Thats what the president claimed to be doing which is to say i notify you were on which doesnt quite meet the qualifications and requirements in the law . Democrats on capitol hill te seeking to declassify that information. What are the rules of what can be made public and declassified . That gets into a whole host of issues in the law. What was at issue with the president is typically when president s either comply with the war powers resolution or act as if theyre complying, usually its a Public Document so it can be made availa ....
And speechwriter he looks at the enormously sympathetic portrait as a politician and how he came to form his political values and his habits and had a real sensibility of how to approach the foundation of that was strongly held moral conviction. And then to tell the story of lincoln telling people and how his father rented him out as an indentured servant to do work on other peoples farms in the backwoods country of kentucky. And then the money was taken away from him and then what that meant to pill for somebody elses labor so unlike other white politicians whether they were anti slavery abolitionis abolitionist, he talked about slavery from the standpoint of the slaves and what it meant to have their time taken from them and their family lives disrupted. So lincoln was a political actor but there was a core to everything that he did. He was not formally educated but then he found his way pretty quickly and became a big fan of tom paine and shakespeare and of course the bible that cam ....