The communications director for the Texas Nationalist Movement, Jeff Sadighi, shrugged off the White House response and pointed to a section of the State Constitution that says Texans have the right "to alter, reform or abolish their government in such manner as they may think expedient".
For example, the Organic Act authorized the President to appoint as many justices of the peace as he "shall from time to time think expedient".
This ban was repeated in 1471 when Parliament thought it "expedient [th]at…ye futbal and golf be abusit".
Thomas Jefferson wrote of George Washington in 1793 that "the president thought it expedient to remind our fellow citizens that we were in a state of peace".
This was one of the many occasions on which the millionaires of the era demonstrated that they thought it expedient for their conspicuous consumption to be kept inconspicuous.
However, because the success of treatment has so far been measured mostly using questionnaires, we also thought it expedient to introduce validated questionnaires like WOMAC and SF-12, and also assess balance, mobility, and general function of the lower legs.
This reading of Mr. Netanyahu holds that he is, at bottom, a cynic (or, if you agree with him, a pragmatist), who will bluff vigorously but bend whenever he thinks it expedient or unavoidable.
Or about "Hail the Conquering Hero": "Most certainly Sturges has fine comic and satiric gifts, and knows how to tell more truth than that when he thinks it expedient; but he seldom does".
Worse, Gov. Wilson's four appointees had months earlier given Douglas a good performance review that I thought reflected their expedient and poor judgment.
He either forgot, or just didn't know, or just thought it wasn't expedient or appropriate for this venue.
