Saints preserve us.
President Obama, continuing to make use of his unique White House bully pulpit, will address the nation on Monday night on the “stalemate over avoiding default and the best approach to cutting deficits,” Jay Carney, the press secretary, announced in a Twitter message late in the afternoon.
'Cause nothing gets highly sensitive negotiations moving more than getting on TV and calling the opposing negotiator a poopypants.
The presidentÂ’s decision to intervene comes after House Republican leaders pushed for a vote Wednesday on a two-step plan that would allow the federal debt limit to immediately be raised by about $1 trillion and tie a second increase next year to the ability of a new joint Congressional committee to produce more deficit reduction.
He's either going to announce a dictatorship or merely crush the stock market. |