Cecilie1200
Diamond Member
Well, I think it would be likely that he wants to talk about more recent events, like the standard and poors credit downgrade, or the historically unprecedented behavior of the stock market two to three weeks ago when it had, what I would almost term, a market quake. Or perhaps he wants to talk about recent events on the east coast and what effect they might have on the market. Whatever it is the president wants to talk about (I doubt he wants to share muffin recipes or chat about the price of tea in china), I should think the congress can reasonably rearrange its business to accommodate.
As for the jobs market being in the shitter, indeed it is, perhaps thats what he wants to talk about.
They DID "reasonably rearrange their business". They said, "We can't do it that fast, how about this date instead?" What, you thought they didn't have stuff to do THAT day that got pushed out of the way?
You really do have no idea what's involved in any of this, do you? You act like you think the "President" can just demand a joint session of Congress on a whim, and all they have to do is shrug and tell their secretaries to move their dinner plans to another night, and "President" Obama just hops in his car and motors over to the Capitol like some everyday shlub attending a dinner party at his friends' house.
Some people just cannot understand the concept of three separate but equal branches of government.
They also don't seem to understand that both houses of Congress don't just get together on a whim, spur-of-the-moment. There are ironclad procedures that must be followed for that to happen.