I am happy about this.....yet I do no trust White House, they gave in to easy.
“yet I do no trust White House, they gave in to easy.”
I agree. Who is televising the NFL kick off? NBC?!
Michelle needs a new dress.
0bama will point the finger at Boehner for being petty in an ad with the House lights off.
We should counter with Pelosi confiscating Blackberries and turning the House lights and cameras off. And locking the doors during the 0bama Deathcare ‘negotiations.’
Obama gets to look magnanimous and cooperative in a bipartisan way. MSM will say “Look how Obama always bends over backward to accommodate the Republicans.”
I wonder if they had anywhere to turn?
Harry Reid declined to help 'em out - simply said any date was fine with him.
That is surprising to me. could be the RATS are lining up on the stern of obozo's sinking ship - ready to jump.
I didn't read all the posts so forgive me if I am being redundant with this thought...
O and Co. knew from the start that they wouldn't get a Republican-controlled House to authorize a joint Congress speech on such short notice and conflicting purposely with the Pubbie debate. By doing so they knew the Pubbies would look unreasonable if they didn't at least approve a joint Congressional speech - that was the goal. Goal Two was to then claim (trust me the leftist echo chamber media will be pushing this within hours from now) that the Pubbies forced Obama to interrupt the big opening night of the NFL - it's not his/their fault. And last - but not least - Goal Three was to therefore draw attention to the Pubbie debate and over the three days in between, again with an echoing liberal media, pound on a choice few statements made at the Pubbie debate and then you use the speech to hammer home the talking points from the previous three days.
It won't work because in the end Obama is in the dumper in regards to his handling of the economy. Even most Democrats have to admit that trying to blank out the long-scheduled Pubbie debate was too blatant to claim innocence. And by once again preempting popular tv events to offer the same solutions in a forum reserved for the most significant speeches he will only give the Pubbies the strongest of ammo. And needless to say his very solutions will not succeed so it will just show him once again to being anything but successful.
They realized that they’d set up a referendum on the administration with the voters able to vote with a click of the remote. Once that got through their thick skulls they concluded the debate outrating the speech would be a disaster.