; House Speaker Blocks Obama's Cheap Political Stunt

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The administration's arrogance has no limits. President Obama called on Congress to convene in joint session next Wednesday so he could read a speech about jobs. The idea was to have the major television networks carry his remarks live, diverting the attention of politicos from the Republican effort to provide Mr. Obama with firsthand experience of the growing unemployment lines. Like millions of Americans mired in the Obama economy, the president knows his own job remains in danger in 2012.

The White House spokesman insisted it was coincidental that the joint session was to be scheduled at the precise date and time that CNBC, MSNBC and Telemundo had set for a debate among eight Republican presidential candidates at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. "There were a lot of considerations that once you decide you want to do a speech to Congress, and you have to deal with congressional schedules, and there are many other factors here," said Mr. Obama's press secretary Jay Carney, not very convincingly. "And obviously one debate of many that's on one channel of many was not enough reason not to have the speech at the time that we decided to have it."

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; House Speaker Blocks Obama's Cheap Political Stunt

Traditionally, the commander in chief uses a joint session to deliver the State of th...

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