The Ignorant Investor

Ignorance Can't Stand in the Way of My Opinion

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

 

Who cares?

The New York Times says:
House Speaker John A. Boehner all but rejected President Obama’s request to speak to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 7 by offering an audience the following night. Mr. Obama had asked to deliver a much anticipated speech outlining his proposals to boost employment and the economy on Wednesday, Sept. 7 — the same time as a scheduled Republican presidential debate, as it happens.
Nobody is going to care what Obama says in his address to Congress, because the guy is a small-bore, economically-conservative president who won't offer up any plan he can't get through Congress, and the plan will consist of tired, worn-out ideas that everyone has already heard.

On the other side, nobody but political junkies will care about a republican debate that happens months before the first primary. So this is all political theater for bloggers and the D.C media. Scheduling a speech to step on a previously scheduled debate from the opposing party is pussy pool, and what does it accomplish except make him see petty?

I suppose the idea is to rerun the Clinton move of forcing Newt Gingrich to sit at the back of Air Force One. The republicans will complain like Newt did, and the media will mock them for complaining. That's the idea, right?

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