The truth about the Boehner/Obama dust up.

Obama requested a joint session of congress, Wednesday morning. Speaker Boehner thought Obama's request a little problamtic and asked for a little time. 15 minutes later, Obama announces the day and time !!! Boehner contacts Obama to inform him that this will not happen. It turns out that the House will be coming back from its recess, coming back and into session at 6:30 pm, [next] Wednesday evening. After coming back for its evening session, the House has to drop all its intended plans, vote on this request and order a three hour search to clear the building in a security check. Obama would be giving his address in the middle of the night, no sooner than 10 pm, Eastern time. No one is reporting that little fact.

That would be fine with me. I usually fall to sleep during his speeches, anyway.

It is clear that Obama has requested a joint session because he plans on lecturing congress on the issue of "gridlock," using the occasion of his speech as the official kickoff for his campaign strategy, running against congress, in spite of the fact that half of congress is in Democrat hands. He has nothing new to say, and he knows it. He, also, knows he is going to be criticized for this fact, so he adds something new -- the inefficiency and pettiness of the GOP controlled House.

The reality of all this is something that is not going well for Obama. George Stephanopoulis gave this report concerning the pettiness of the president and comments made by James Carvelle, a rabid Clintonian:

Democratic strategist James Carville told me that the White House was in the wrong when it requested that the President address Congress on the same night and time as a Republican presidential debate.

“I do think this is a really big debate and I think the White House was out of bounds…in trying to schedule a speech during a debate,” Carville said on “GMA.”

This will be Gov. Rick Perry’s first debate, and as Carville said this morning the stakes are high.

“Given a choice between watching a debate and the speech I would have watched the debate and I’m not even a Republican or even close to being a Republican,” he said, adding it will be a “barn burner.”

Like I said, this deliberate effort at making the GOP look like jerks has backfired on Obama. His instincts, stink, and his strategies are becoming apparent to all. He has nothing new to say, so he is desperately trying to change the focus of the American observer.