Seems like a miscalculation by the administration. They backed off the date pretty quickly, is it possible that Boehner's logistical arguments were valid?

Could Obama have put it a couple hours before the republican debate? or right after?

conflicting with the NFL kickoff is even worse

I uderstand how the people on the left have to keep their chins up about this guy, but come on now. This guy just doesn't think right.

When they announced the joint members speach, I thought, "thats what Hugo would do!" Now he looks like a fool, and has to go up against the NFL game.

He keeps thinking he has more political capital than he has, and then has to listen to the girl tell him that his political capital card has been declined.

He didn't need to do it in front of Congress. Could have given the speech at the White House but I guess he wanted the pomp and circumstance more than eyeballs.

When so much of republican criticism (during debt ceiling fiasco etc) has been "enough rhetoric, give us an actual plan" then NO he cannot just give a speech at the WH. It needs to be a policy proposal and the best way to do that is in front of the law making bodies of the USA. I mean your quote is just so perfectly indicative of how republicans react to every single thing that he does. If he eschews speaking in front of congress and speaks outside WH he's "grandstanding" "campaigner in chief" "more rhetoric, no jobs, business as usual" and now that he AGREES to move it back for a meaningless debate where we listen to complete idiots and non factors like santorum etc talk about god knows what you are attacking him for being more interested in the 'pomp and circumstance.' sighhhhhhh

Exactly.

He never really had a plan when he said he was going to announce a plan.
He said he was going to announce a big jobs plan before his same vacation in 2009.

He figured he is so important that he would call all the elected republicans to sit before him as he gave a 45 minute speach. If they didn't like what he said, they were just partisan hacks that want the country to fail. He would get a bonus of over-shadowing the republican debate. The problem is that most people would prefer he not be President.

My comment was meant to be pretty narrow, if he didn't want to go against the NFL on the 8th he could have done done the speech at the White House on the 7th.
I hope he has an actual plan, something that can be scored by the CBO. If he doesn't it is political theater.

Sorry Bro,

The best way to inact a plan is to write the plan on paper. The CBO said after a "plan" he gave in speach form several months ago... "We can't score a speech".

A specific, detailed plan (on paper), released in conjuction with a speech explaining a need and how it will help it.


I'll bet he says that his plan will create a million new jobs. Shovel ready stuff, but he won't say shovel ready, because the last time he spent near a trillion dollars, that's the one he used. I'll bet anyone $100.00 he doesn't use "shovel ready jobs" once in his jobs chat.

Sorry Bro,

You don't 'inact' plans.

Edit: and wtf are these responses? Obviously completely irrelevant to my point. Thanks for setting the line on whether he says "shovel ready" though. Really. Nice job.

Bachmann backing sPAC attacks Perry.

Opening salvo imo.

boom bachmann'd

That video makes me cringe. Please please Republicans do not run Bachmann or Perry. Can't we just ask Krauthammer, Will, and Kristol to pick a candidate for us?

This whole page has been awesome. Thanks for the amusement.

BTW, McConnell's #1 priority is to be re-elected. And apparently, to make sure Obama doesn't get re-elected is a close third behind making sure whoever runs against McConnell doesn't get re-elected.

lol assigning such lofty ideals to McConnell. just lol.

And yeah, the exact same thing could probably said for Pelosi or whoever on the Dem side.