Obama schedules joint session job speech at same time as GOP Debate.

[Paul Kemp]

if not disrespectful (though he is the POTUS, guess he has the right to be a jerk), definitely unsportsmanlike and not very smart

If the GOP did this, you'd be declaring it a great political tactic.

[Paul Kemp]

Thursday night is, of course, the start of football season.

Yah no fcuking way with that.

[Paul Kemp]

I wouldn't be surprised if NBC doesn't air the speech actually. So much marketing and ad money goes into the first game of the year.

Dumb idea.

[Paul Kemp]

Boehner's office should tape every conversation with the White House. Now the WH says that they pre-cleared the Wednesday date with this office, and his office denies it. Somebody is "spinning."

What makes you so sure it's not the other side that's doing the spinning?

[Paul Kemp]

I've always felt that joint sessions of congress should be saved for SotU and monumental occasions, like Pearl Harbor or 9/11. I'd rather policy speeches be given from the Oval Office.