Obama To Press Corps: I Can’t Make GOP Cooperate On Budget

[AnotherMcIntosh]

7. Well, if he wanted to do what FDR who had fireside chats with consitutants who have some influence

over Congress, Obama could have regular televised conferences - on a daily basis even - to get the message through to the public. The public can put pressure on Congress, if that's what Obama wants.

As an example, Obama says that he wants to close Gitmo. But Congress won't cooperate in authorizing funds to allow it to be closed. He could invited news reporters with their camera crews down to Gitmo for a conference and some interviews.

He says that he wants to preserve Social Security. But he has not seemed to have had the time to consider raising the cap on the multi-millionaires and multi-billionairs. He could invite camera crews and news reporters to accompany him while taking a tour of the yacht clubs, the private airports, and other places where the super-rich own things and people.

He could talk about the good that he did in working with others to give hundreds of billions of dollars to the super-rich. He could take a plane trip with camera crews and newscasters to the Bahamas, Switzerland, etc., to show where some of the money went.

If he would otherwise spend his time doing other things, who is to say "That was ugly and uncalled for"?