South Australian premier Jay Weatherill "noted" Abbott's expressions of concern about workers in his state, but said: "I want a tangible indication of his sincerity, we will be putting some positive proposals to him, some specific programs and projects, some big infrastructure projects – he knows what they are".
But many thought the proposal to ban him was simply giving him more welcome publicity and more credence to his views.
And even for all their admiration of F.D.R., historians are quick to point out that soon after he had swept nearly every state in being elected to a second term, he tried to upend the constitutional separation of powers with a proposal to allow him to pack the Supreme Court by appointing up to six new justices (Congress wouldn't let him).
And the proposal to proclaim him a hero has powerful backers.
The proposal to include him as part of any deal comes amid Real Madrid's struggles to find the funds to sign Bale.
In fact, though the proposal to award him the degree was challenged, when the dons voted, the placets (it pleases me) outvoted the non-placets.
In 1992 a proposal to award him an honorary doctorate at Cambridge University caused such howls that the university was forced to put the matter to a ballot the first time this had happened in 30 years.
And so, I will listen to the opinion of the people and do as they choose," said Berdymukhamedov in 2014, in response to the proposal to honour him with a statue.
Like many other Democrats and many liberals, I revelled in Bill Clinton's speech the other night, and endorse my colleague Ben Greenman's tweeted proposal to name him the Secretary of Explaining Things.
