Already frustrated with Washington, many Americans threw up their hands in disgust this week when President Obama got into a pissing match with House Speaker John Boehner over the date for a speech ostensibly about creating jobs.
The "deeply ridiculous fight over exactly when President Obama might address a joint session of Congress…reaffirmed what everyone knows: Current political leadership is incapable of getting anything significant done and the nation will have to wait at least through 2012 to find any clear direction," writes Politico's Ben White.
"Significant or insignificant," quips Alex Burns, Politico's national political reporter. "The President is going to give speech supposedly on how he's going to create 1 million jobs. But it doesn't exactly instill confidence he'll get that through Congress if they can't schedule the speech itself without difficulty."
Indeed, while myriad trial balloons are being floated Burns sees extremely low odds that anything of "real scale" can Read More »