Reply #52: I happen to know for a fact that Ronald Reagan ...

[GarySeven]

planned and authorized the attack on Grenada from the Eisenhower Cottage at the Augusta National Golf Club. I don't see a problem with this at all - the president is president 24 hours a day, even when he's on AF 1 traversing flyover country.

In point of fact, I have often thought that the country would benefit if all the federal department heads would move into the cities or regions of the country most affected by their policy decisions - for example, the Secretary of Agriculture getting an office in Moline. They could still meet in Washington if the law truly requires that, and I'm not sure that it does. And why shouldn't Congress be able to vote from their Blackberrys? Get the whole bunch of 'em out of Washington and amongst us hoi poloi why doncha?