Little-Acorn
Well-Known Member
President Obama has called for a Joint Session of Congress on Sept, 7 at 8:00 PM Eastern time, so that he can make a speech to them about jobs.
Many have already pointed out that this is the date for the debate among Republican candidates for President, and speculated that Obama is trying to divert attention from it... and especially from newly-declared Rick Perry, who will be in these debates for the first time that night.
But there's another leetle problem.
To accept a President's call for a Joint Session, each house of Congress must write up a resolution to that effect, debate it, pass it, and reconcile any differences; and finally send it to the President.
The problem: The House is currently out of session. And they won't be back until... you guessed it... Sept. 7. At 6:30 PM.
It takes many hours for even the simplest resolutions to go thru the above steps. Pretty much impossible for the House to do its part in approving a Joint Session.
John Boehner just sent him a letter, pointing this out:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/31/boehner-obama-joint-session-date-no/
Pretty hard for me to believe that the President of the United States didn't know this... or at least didn't have people around him to inform him of the fact BEFORE he made the official call.
So... why did the President call for that particular time and date, knowing it couldn't be done (even if no concurrent debates were scheduled)?
Very weird.
Many have already pointed out that this is the date for the debate among Republican candidates for President, and speculated that Obama is trying to divert attention from it... and especially from newly-declared Rick Perry, who will be in these debates for the first time that night.
But there's another leetle problem.
To accept a President's call for a Joint Session, each house of Congress must write up a resolution to that effect, debate it, pass it, and reconcile any differences; and finally send it to the President.
The problem: The House is currently out of session. And they won't be back until... you guessed it... Sept. 7. At 6:30 PM.
It takes many hours for even the simplest resolutions to go thru the above steps. Pretty much impossible for the House to do its part in approving a Joint Session.
John Boehner just sent him a letter, pointing this out:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/31/boehner-obama-joint-session-date-no/
Pretty hard for me to believe that the President of the United States didn't know this... or at least didn't have people around him to inform him of the fact BEFORE he made the official call.
So... why did the President call for that particular time and date, knowing it couldn't be done (even if no concurrent debates were scheduled)?
Very weird.