Like Ace, I like how Boehner isn’t bending to Obama’s blatant political ploy. But he should offer Obama the ability to present his speech before the debate — not after.
Forcing him to put it off a day makes it seem like you think a debate is more important than a jobs bill.
Forcing him to give the speech earlier allows you to frame it as unemployed workers not having to wait more than a week to find out what their president plans to do about unemployment.
Why wait? Give it tomorrow. Or Friday. Let’s get to creating jobs!
Obama does have a plan already, right? This isn’t something he’s forced to cobble together by September 7th, right? Good then let’s hear it now.
It’s better imagery. The speaker should offer Obama a joint session for September 1st, 2nd, 5th, or 6th. If Obama wants to play games, let’s play games. But let’s play them intelligently.
31. August 2011 at 9:11 pm
Let’s get to creating jobs? Might want to tell that to the Republican led house, who has yet to introduce a single jobs bill, and have almost singlehandedly crashed the entire economic system of the United States twice in the last 4 years.