Boehner tells Obama No.

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Speaker Boehner sent obama a letter today telling him Wed Sept 07 will notwork for a joint Session."Speaker of the House John Boehner sent a letter back to President Obama regarding the president's request for a joint session of Congress on September 7. However, Mr. Boehner told the president that the date of September 7 would not be available and proposed September 8 instead.

Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Speaker Boehner, sent out a statement regarding rumors about whether or not Rep. Boehner knew about and approved of the proposed September 7 date before the president announced it:


"No one in the Speaker's office - not the Speaker, not any staff - signed off on the date the White House announced today. Unfortunately we weren’t even asked if that date worked for the House. Shortly before it arrived this morning, we were simply informed that a letter was coming. It’s unfortunate the White House ignored decades - if not centuries - of the protocol of working out a mutually agreeable date and time before making any public announcement.”
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Some of the letter is at link. It points out that neither the House nor Senate will be back in session until 6:30 pm on the 7th.

I wonder if Obama will accept the 8th?
 
here is the letterThe Link

i did not realize both House and Senate have to adopt a concurrent resolution for a joint session. with neither back in session until 6:30 on the 7th it could have been impossible to do
 
That's a screw up for Obama, you have representatives in the Republican debate. I've always thought of the Joint Session as symbol of the unity of the government and the nation. Scheduling it when other members are at a previously scheduled debate goes against that spirit.

I think this is my first public criticism of Obama...
 
Cyclist,
I admire your candor.
what about thefact that Obma didn't consult with Boehner or maybe even Reid before announcing?

does a POTUS need to observe protocol?
 
johny
"the often insurmountable level of ******** and legislative douchebaggery the GOP has put him through. :

perhaps you can post some examples of the bs and douchebaggery. Be sure and post anything the Pubs did that had not been done in decades.And anything outside of established protocol

I thinkObama and his handlers did not know how a joint session came about and thought they could just announce it

which when you think about it is really stupid.

OR if they did know they then thought that after obama came out and announced it without consulting congress it would hurt the GOP to say. sorry Barry
 
The protocol should be a formality. If the president wants to call a joint session, I think congress should respect the Office of the President of the United States and allow it. However, the President should be sensitive to the political process and scheduling over a republican presidential debate is not doing that in my opinion. While I disagree with the President's decision and think it was a mistake, I am not sure if Boehner's rejection is appropriate given what's at stake. The argument could be made that the republican debate and the discussion there is also significant to our economy and so should not be scheduled over.

Definitely a political blunder by Obama and probably a small win for Boehner. Regardless, this does not help the near political deadlock in Washington.
 
^^ I agree but I see no other explanation than the president's people wanted to overshadow the Republican presidential debate. Since there are more important issues to deal with, it is dumb of the president to play petty politics.
 
Well- rather than fall into a stalemate over a date- Obama said ok- move to Thursday. I agree- whomever decided on Sept. 7 originally in his staff screwed up- but he deserves as much praise for moving forward quickly, and putting his speech against the NFL opener for compromise' sake, as he does criticism for originally scheduling on the night of the GOP debate.

I have a lot of criticism for both parties lately, but nonetheless I seem to see compromise consistently more from the Democrats than I do the GOP. And no, I don't care about your principles, your principles do not hold a majority of the House, Senate and White House- and we have plenty of issues to address immediately.
 
Conservatives have been compromising for years, you know what, compromise has gotten us right where we are at now.

Enough is enough. No more compromise. We came out in 2010, you may not like it but the Tea Party is growing and will be even stronger in 2012. Compromise is going away and will be gone in 2012 when at least the House and Senate are in control of the Republicans. The Conservatives will be holding the Republicans feet to the fire.

You may not llike it, but the time for compromise has passed, over $14T ago. 40 million people on food stamps. Almost 50% of this country pays no income taxes? The highest corporate tax rate in the world, or close to it? All the Tax loopholes and crazy tax laws, the immigration issue......
I am speaking to both Republican and Democrats when it comes to tax laws and loopholes.

You may not like it and you may be calling for compromise, well it is not going to happen.

The more I associate and attend Tea Party events or gatherings there are more and more people such as myself showing up with the same opinions. 4 years ago, I would have never even batted an eye, now Obama/Pelosi/Reid have awaken a sleeping giant. The snowball is rolling down hill and it is getting bigger and bigger.

Degrade us, call us kooks, racists or crazies all you want, you are going to have live with it because we are here to take back our country from the free loaders. Most of us are hard working family oriented folks that are tired of other peoples hands in our pockets to line other peoples pockets with our money.

Again, go ahead and call us crazy or loony, it only strengthens our resolve and pushes more and more people to us.
 
Major-

If you're going to TP meetings- great for you- but you're also probably hearing more propaganda about "Libs" calling you crazy, kooks and racist as you just implied. You're also probably hearing financial propaganda such that you think you can blame $14T in debt all on Democrats, or compromise.

The logic, and facts are not with you. Nor is the economic rationale- which states you probably need jobs if you want to balance any budget, and you ain't gettin no jobs if you simply gut everything and call that a budget.

There are millions of moderates, who see some of your points, but minus the hatred for a party that about half of the country consistently wants in office, and who want to take care of things in a way that is best for our long term interests.

In business terms- the tea party is the going out of business model- cut everything and who cares about tomorrow. Whereas the moderate view says how do we minimize expenses and grow revenues through education and technology.

Your screw over the other party routine has been tried and failed in many other countries. Only a moderate, bi-partisan solution will work for the US- as proven during our most difficult moments as a country during world wars, depressions and revolutions.
 
You're a fool for shunning compromise. The constitution was written to force compromise and the constitution has more or less served us well. Compromise erased the defiicit under clinton. you know a guy who gained enough power not to compromise? Hitler. Power in the hands of a few is dangeous.
 
Iraq, Senior Prescription Drug Program, more tax cuts probably added 3-4 Trillion to the debt. These were things that were OPTIONAL, and all done from 2001-2008.
 
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