Congress hopes that sentiment still holds, and will offer itself as the real party of stable government.
The invitation was later rescinded when the event was changed, but the offer itself was news, a victory for the power of the dramatic imagination.
Our Reader Comments of the Week come from a story about Facebook and the possibility that the networking super-site will eventually offer itself as a publicly traded company on Wall Street.
The industry was reluctant to offer digital distribution itself, partly because it feared that it would no longer be able to sell second-rate songs bundled with more popular ones.
Perhaps we should extend Zittrain's idea beyond the computer and onto the network itself, and offer two separate logical networks, operating over the same physical connections.
This would help to measure the quality of the patent system itself, and offer some way of evaluating whether it is working to promote innovation, or to impede it.
Not that Vodafone has made life easy for itself since publishing its offer document two days before Christmas.
For those that generally like to shun Thanksgiving shopping but might like to sneak in some time on the computer before dinner, nearly half of those 97% will offer online specials on Thanksgiving Day itself.
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And while Facebook prides itself on being able to offer marketers targeted ads - such as 24- to 35-year-olds in Essex interested in motorbikes - she said there was a much simpler proposition behind its mobile advertising proposition.
"You have to look in considerable detail at, not just the sport itself, what it might offer to the Olympic Games, what it brings to the Olympic program, " said Lee, former director of communications and public affairs for London 2012's successful bid.
Entrepreneurs can advertise the offer as widely as they would like so long as general advertisements only contain a basic statement that they are raising capital on a crowdfunding portal and more substantive information about the offer is communicated solely via the portal itself.
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The Optum division allows the company to offer a diversified service offering, thus differentiating itself from its competitors, which include Wellpoint and Aetna.
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Nokia itself has repeatedly said it plans to offer Windows Phone-based handsets at a range of prices.
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Firms at the top pride themselves on paying market, which is why the AmLaw100 routinely marches itself off the cliff like lemmings to offer first year associates exactly the same salary.
According to the outlet's anonymous sources, Sprint has approached Dish Network with an offer that would allow the satellite company to establish itself as a wireless provider by using the Now Network's airwaves.
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The government preserved a curious position: somewhat disassociating itself from Mr Weerawansa, but rejecting his offer of resignation and saying that it would not quell his demonstration.
In short he noted that the spread betting companies offered contracts for differences (not unlike an option but a gambling contract, not an option itself) based upon the best bid and offer prices on the London Stock Exchange.
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The solution: For a few billion dollars, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could get into the phone business itself, buying the spectrum it needs to offer not just voice service for all those iPhone users, but to build the broadband wireless links it needs to offer next generation, network-centric computing, communications and entertainment.
"If Bristol were to up its offer at this time, it would only be competing with itself, " said UBS analyst Roopesh Patel, whose firm has provided investment banking and other services to Bristol-Myers.
The way to start would be for Russia, which now declares itself to be in a position of strength, to offer a ceasefire.
Can countries like Ukraine or Belarus be blamed for wondering what Europe can offer them while France, a founder member, is so unsure itself?
The charity has recently rebranded itself as The Air Ambulance Service, and plans to offer a new national service using one helicopter to cover England.
Because JustFab manufactures its products itself, it cuts out the middle man and can offer high quality products at a lower price, says Goldenberg, who was COO of MySpace parent company Intermix Media.
The area itself has such a unique appeal that we are able to offer a unique atmosphere for the people we relocated.
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GlobalChoice Healthcare, based in New Mexico, doesn't offer sightseeing assistance or even use the term medical tourism, instead calling itself a medical travel company.
Allying itself with Empty Orchestra experts Joysound, Nintendo's tried to offer a familiar interface along the lines of existing karaoke bar touchscreen interfaces.
Some scanners will inevitably offer a better browsing experience depending on the software used to generate the QR code itself.
In the absence of an even better offer, should it decide to stay independent and perhaps seek to become a predator itself, its shareholders might yet give it sympathetic support.
Freeport said as recently as April that it would voluntarily divest itself of a 9.4% stake at fair market value, an offer it has made in the past to both the central and provincial governments, but no deal has taken place.
Rather than offer any solutions, what we're trying to show is the place where that myth first embedded itself.
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