Federal judge invites lawyers to “kindergarten party” to teach them how not to waste his time.
A helpful timeline of yesterday’s back and forth over the timing of the President’s congressional address on jobs. You be the judge.
Longtime TPM Reader JB checks in:
The scheduling issue is much ado about nothing. It is the yadda yadda yadda in the story. We will not spend one iota thinking about it over the long weekend or after some targeted leaks concerning the speech’s contents. Chris Cilliza is right, any story about process is a loser for the President. There are 100,000 people who care about this story and their 2012 votes were decided after the 2008 election.
I would like to make one other point.
Some reader reactions to yesterday’s brouhaha over when Obama would be allowed to address a joint session of Congress about the jobs crisis:
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President Obama accedes to Boehner request to delay jobs speech until after GOP presidential debate.
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