And even the most Pollyanna-ish real estate watchers usually added a mouthful of caveats to any declaration of victory.
All powers and authorities possessed by the President, any other officer or employee of the Federal Government, or any executive agency, as a result of any declaration of National Emergency, of which more than 30 are concurrently in effect, shall be terminated within 90 days, unless each House of Congress shall meet to vote on a joint resolution to renew the emergency.
However, you can change the accessibility of any declaration as long as it does not render the element changed unusable by other elements of the event creation process.
As a Republican, Romney has to not only assure voters that he wouldn't be beholden to church leaders, but he has to also gain the support of an evangelical base, which is probably more of an uphill battle than any declarations of "flip-flopping" could bring.
This renders meaningless any declarations of "success" that might be made after the conference.
But most often he sounds to me like the Elvis Costello of "London's Brilliant Parade": a singer of lugubrious songlines, geekily affectionate towards his chosen terrain, but suspicious of any easy declarations of love.
The lack of any Congressional declarations of war, of any effort at national mobilization or shared sacrifice, suggests the latter.
When Britain declared war on Germany at the start of the First World War, the Australian government rapidly followed suit, with Prime Minister Joseph Cook declaring on 5 August 1914 that "...when the Empire is at war, so also is Australia" and reflecting the sentiment of many Australians that any declaration of war by Britain automatically included Australia.
It also represented his first initiative since a chill in relations across the Taiwan Strait that followed Chinese approval of an anti-secession law in March calling for the use of "nonpeaceful means" to block any declaration of independence here.
Administration spokespeople advised that we are engaged in a perpetual "state of war" against terrorism -- without any declaration of war from Congress authorizing the indefinite conduct of such a war!
