Obama wants a "Do Over"

The president has asked to speak to a joint session of the house and senate on September 7th. Apparently, he didn't get everything covered during the State of the Union last January. Either that or he though of other things to say.

Obama wants to say something

"I respectfully request the opportunity to address a Joint Session of Congress on September 7, 2011, at 8:00 p.m.," the letter reads. "It is my intention to lay out a series of bipartisan proposals that the Congress can take immediately to continue to rebuild the American economy by strengthening small businesses, helping Americans get back to work, and putting more money in the paychecks of the Middle Class and working Americans, while still reducing our deficit and getting our fiscal house in order." The president he must be formally invited by Congress in order to address a joint session and can't just show up. The rule works the same way for the State of the Union.

Would it be too much of a cliche? To say that this request is "unprecedented?" Come to think of it? Just about everything the man has done has been "un presidential." according to the request, the president wants to lay out for congress, what he thinks they need to do to breech the impasse of politics to resolve the woes of the economy and a stagnant unemployment rate that remains above 9%. Well damn! Maybe there is a solution to America's problems after all. Maybe it's as simple as we should just ditch congress and let the president decide everything. He has already indicated that he feels that he could do just that, but that he wants to give congress the opportunity to reach the proper solutions on their own. Apparently the president has tired waiting for the blind squirrels to find their own acorns, so now he is going to tell them directly what he expects. (And the man knows a thing or two about ACORN). and barring their appropriate reaction to his recommendations, he may very well decide to take responsibility for everything and begin making decisions on his own in the near future. I guess we shall see.