Posted on 08/31/2011 10:57:02 AM PDT by RightGeek
President Obama plans to lay out his long-awaited jobs speech before a joint session of Congress next Wednesday evening -- which happens to be the same night of a Republican presidential debate.
"I respectfully request the opportunity to address a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7, 2011 at 8 p.m.," Obama wrote in a letter sent Wednesday to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says the timing of the speech is not aimed at overshadowing the next Republican debate, which is cosponsored by NBC News and Politico, and is scheduled to air at the same time as the planned presidential address.
"It is coincidental," Carney said. "It is one debate of many [that will air] on one channel of many... [and] there are many other factors here" to consider when scheduling a major address from the president, he added.
Carney gave NBC his permission to reschedule the Republican debate so it doesn't conflict with the president's speech, saying "if the network so chose and the candidates so chose" to reschedule, "that would be completely fine with us."
Boehner and Reid have not yet responded to Obama's letter, according to Carney.
go tell NBC they can piss off too , this is pathetic to let the left wing propaganda arm of the left do this debate.
The MOFO should have had staff work with the House and Senate to arrange the time and date BEFORE anything was said in public, then just announce the agreed upon time. But Obama just had to act on his basic street thug instincts.
I got throught right away.
The black woman who answered the switchboard sounded like she was on drugs plus I had to wait till she finished the conversation with the woman who was next to her.
Hell do we now hire dopes to answer the congressional switchboard?
Also his office said this is new and they have nothing to say right now and when I questioned as to why on this earth would we have NBC do this debate she said she will pass this on to him.
How grand of Carney.
I never thought anyone could make Robert Gibbs look brilliant by comparison. Yet... here we are.
yes I have and now Beck has gone I can’t watch Beckel and the elitist Perino and the not funny smacked nose guy.
FOX has been going down for some time but there is no one else so I watch the PC history channel
Might as well since we have dopes running the country!
And, yes, most of them are affirmative action hires! You couldn't fire their *sses if you wanted to. They do damn well anything they want knowing that they aren't about to be fired. LAWSUIT if you even try.
Fox should setup a debate on Tuesday or Thursday, preferrably Tuesday to “scoop” MSNBC.
the woman answered in a really quiet way, she then carried on for about 20 secs in her conversation to the woman next to her, she then said who do I want and I had to repeat it 5 times to her.
On top of all that she sounded like she was high or drunk.
BTW the conversation was about her shopping this past weekend.
Now how much does she make, because if I had my way she would be fired along with most of the Govt and Govt employes especially the fools at the TSA
I served in the USAF. So, sorry. Another FAIL for you.
And read the Constitution. The Executive and Legislative are EQUAL branches of the government.
Get thee to Civics 101.
THERE IS NO WAY ON THIS EARTH NBC OR MSNBC SHOULD DO THESE DEBATES
I have no interest in hearing the questions about the queer agenda.
There shouldn’t be one full stop
Since when do members of Congress take "orders" from the pResident or "submit" to his demands?
Answer, they don't. The Executive Branch doesn't get to "order" the Legislative Branch to be somewhere or do something.
The President has no power over Congress.
Hell, put a monitor up on the stage so the candidates can laugh at him while he speaks. Then show that.
Obama showed his playground level of maturity when he twice ‘scratched his face’ with his middle finger. Once directed at Hillary! and once directed at McCain. What an International embarrassment!
Obama is the CiC of the military. Last time I checked, the House & Senate weren’t part of our armed forces.
You don’t really get the whole, “separation of powers” thing, do you?
The Congress is not subordinate to the President.
75 minutes on hold, and then I had to listen to Lord Benor (don’t care to learn how to speel his name) tell me to leave a message.
They don’t want to hear from us. Time for the TEA party.
What is that phase?... Oh yeah.
Separate but equal
He's not King, or a commanding officer.
He was elected not coronated my goodness
Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution states that;
He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States.
Although I don't believe his political grandstanding at this point qualifies as an "extraordinary occasion". He can simply "...recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."
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