Bigfoot no more. Sasquatch turns out to have dainty little ballerina feet.
First, Obama ambushed the GOP by upstaging the party’s presidential debate with a major address. Then Republicans returned fire by trying to push it back to the 8th. Then the name-calling started. Finally, late Wednesday, Obama agreed to change the day — even if it means backtracking and bumping against the NFL’s Thursday night opener.
“Both Houses will be back in session after their August recess on Wednesday, September 7th, so that was the date that was requested,” Obama press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement after a day of partisan sniping.
“We consulted with the Speaker about that date before the letter was released, but he determined Thursday would work better. The President is focused on the urgent need to create jobs and grow our economy, so he welcomes the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress on Thursday, September 8th and challenge our nation’s leaders to start focusing 100% of their attention on doing whatever they can to help the American people.”
Yeah, Jay Carney may just be lying about whether the White House consulted Boehner or not. The Speaker’s office tweeted late Wednesday that no such consultation had happened. Even Democrats privately say the White House made a huge mistake in trying to schedule the speech on the same night as the GOP presidential debate. Lefty blogs fume that The One caved — again. Now, Obama’s speech bumps up against the heralded return of the NFL regular season, and what looks to be a great match-up between the Saints and the Packers. I know what I’ll be watching that night. Yeah, the president’s speech. But I’ll be very annoyed at having to flip back and forth between a very predictable president and what should be a barnburner of a game. Obama already looks small for his petty tactics on this speech, which was supposed to be a real plan to revive the economy. He’ll look even smaller vying for attention after he’s gone down in the polls and Rogers and Brees go downfield to their wide receivers.
Ya know, if he’s really The Smartest President Evar ™, why didn’t he see this problem coming and act like The Adult In The Room ™ and avoid it?
Just askin’…
Clever headline is clever…
Obama really has trouble with this whole three branches of government thing…he thinks the three branches are “me, myself, and I”.
To LeighB
Excellent!!
Can I use that? Or are you copyrighting it?
It’s yours.
Nice!
Bammie’s so-called “urgent” need to address the job situation certainly didn’t disabuse him of enjoying the Vineyard for a little family get-a-way and so, the question becomes: Why the need to schedule a speech 1) Before a joint session of Congress, and 2)On September 7, the same evening as a long-ago-scheduled GOP debate? The answer is really quite simple; it’s called provocation.
In Bammie’s feeble, infantile little mind, he saw an opportunity to illuminate the (alleged) political discord threatening to derail his socialistic policy march should the Republicans reject his scheduling request. At the same time, Dear Leader gets to flex his political muscle by demonstrating to his supporters that he’s the Big Cheese in DC and therefore, the only game in town.
Too bad then, that he ran headlong into a consummate political professional in the Speaker, who immediately saw the ploy for what it was and, in the most-diplomatic way possible, politely told POTUS to go pound sand.
Smartest guy in the room? Hardly. My kids are more highly-skilled politicians…and far more intelligent to boot.
Hey, I’m a Cheesehead. No way will our family watch the Great O on the Packer’s opening night.
Besides, the speech is predictable…
It is time for Congress to put aside petty partisan politics and come up with a jobs plan, and bla, bla, bla….
Except the Great Orator will take about 60 minutes to say it and reference himself 100 times ,make about twice that many partisan insults to the GOP, and blame everyone and everything else for the problem.
The clever among us will note that he offers no plan of his own.
Commenters on towhnhall.com nailed it. WI & LA contingents watching the game on iPads and Paul Ryan wearing a cheesehead would set the Congressional tone for the speech quite nicely.
The rush out the doors afterwards to go watch the game would also be a nice touch.
Too bad Barry cannot take a page from President Jefferson. Write up your proposal, and have a courier deliver it to Congress. Then sit in the White House and have Congrss come to you.
But since this president cannot ever put pen to paper, he has to give a speech, and he needs the highest audience possible. Maybe if he was the half-time show in Lambeau field, he’d get a sizeable audience.
Nobody watches this guy anymore. What was Bugs Bunny’s line: “He couldn’t draw flies if he was covered in syrup.”
Obama will also look small to everyone switching back and forth: compare him to the linemen and he’ll look like a pixie. And not a happy pixie, either. A teleprompter-dependent, American free market-hating, Rumpelstiltskin-channeling pixie.