Thursday, September 1, 2011

Just who's mucking who?

  Well, now, the Boy President is between vacations (Bali's the next one, unless he slips away for a weekend or two between now and then) and wants his time in front of the camera.
  And he demands that Congress snap to it! He wants his time to browbeat his opponents present his plan to the world, which is rumored to be just, um, well, more spending on stupid $%^& like teaching Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.
  Even now, politicians in his party are urging him to spend $2.2 trillion on more stimulus projects like ACORN funding. (Where they got the .2 who knows. It must be already tabulated, just like it was last time.)
  Though the White House now admits they knew the Republican debate had been scheduled for a long time even though they originally professed not to have known, apparently this doofus administration is now angry, OUTRAGED at the effrontery of the peons who refused the Boy King his Wednesday night jutting jaw scolding of the Congress. From Politico:
It seemed like a trivial matter: On Wednesday, House Republicans forced the president to delay his speech to a joint session of Congress by one day.
Who cares? The White House cares. Very much.
  Not only that, but the WH also believes that “This confirms what we all know: They will do anything in the House to muck us up.”
  Highly offended, the rationale is that he has been treated "shabbily."
  Interesting, considering that this monumental speech wasn't that big a deal while *The Prince* was on vacation. He couldn't think of any other date than this one?
  If they were honest up there at the WH, they'd admit that this was an amusing scheme when originally hatched to try to make the Republicans look weak and ineffectual, having to reschedule their own debate to meet the demand. It was politics and Obama's people thought they had the upper hand but it backfired.
  Politico also says:
  The White House is viewing it as very consequential, however. “It is a big deal,” the source said. “It shows the House Republicans will do no outreach, nothing.”
And who does the White House believe was really behind treating the president so shabbily?
  In normal circumstances, two camps would negotiate a date. A call. Would you invite me up this date? Would that work? But instead, the tremendous narcissists occupying the WH picked a date they knew would be unacceptable in the hope of gaining an upper hand politically.
  It didn't work and the house of cards that is this presidency is beginning to tumble down. 
  Maybe the WH will think twice before trying to muck the Republicans up.
UPDATE from Big Journalism:

On Aug 31, President Obama announced as if it were set the date of Sept. 7 for his jobs speech to a joint session of Congress. Of course, he and his staff knew that Sept. 7 was the date scheduled months ago for the next GOP presidential debate. It was clearly an attempt by Obama to overshadow the debate, the first one that Texas Gov. Rick Perry would be a part. 
One problem here is that the protocol of scheduling a joint session of Congress was not observed by this White House. The fact is a president cannot schedule a joint session of Congress on his own hook. He simply does not have that power Constitutionally. He must ask the Senate majority leader and the speaker of the House of Representatives if the date he is requesting will work. Such a date has to be agreed upon by Congress before announcements are made. 
Obama did not do this. He simply tried to decree on what date the speech would be held and announced that date as if it were settled.
This was an unprecedented move.

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