POTUS to address nation, 9 pm tonight, re stalemate over avoiding default

[jefferson_dem]

...and the best approach to cutting deficits.

http://twitter.com/#!/PressSec/statuses/95590617853345793

[msongs]

1. let's hope he starts by listing all the times repubs have vote for a debt limit increase nt

[vi5]

2. He won't.....

He'll praise them for their sincere love of their country.
He'll talk about how both sides can disagree.
He'll talk about how some in his own party are being inflexible.
He'll talk about how he's willing to take on both sides sacred cows.

But he'll never, under any circumstances call it as it is when it comes to the GOP.

Maybe I'll be proven wrong. Hopefully I will.

I'm not holding my breath though.

[Inuca]

8. Did you by any chance

see last Friday's press conference? Read a transcript?

[Dr Fate]

21. Post the parts where Obama tears them a new one for us.

Nt

[Cali_Democrat]

3. That's too confrontational of an approach for Obama

He wants to reach across the aisle in the name of bipartisanship.

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[MrsCorleone]

19. Current TV to air, as well! nt

[marlakay]

4. What could he possibly have left to say?

This economic crisis has gone on so long I feel numb to it. Your body just shuts down when it can't take any more...

[flamingdem]

5. I think he'll name names and give them hell nt

[flpoljunkie]

7. More from the NYT...

July 25, 2011

Senate and House Split as Obama Is to Address Budget

By CARL HULSE, JENNIFER STEINHAUER and JACKIE CALMES

WASHINGTON – The Democratic Senate and Republican House put themselves on a legislative collision course Monday as they moved forward with significantly different plans on how to raise the debt limit and avert a possible federal default next week.

Trying to break the impasse, President Obama planned to address the nation Monday night in televised remarks from the Oval Office of the White House.

The president’s decision to intervene comes after House Republican leaders pushed for a vote Wednesday on a two-step plan that would allow the federal debt limit to immediately be raised by about $1 trillion and tie a second increase next year to the ability of a new joint Congressional committee to produce more deficit reduction.

But top Senate Democrats called the proposal a “non-starter” and said they would advance their own plan to reduce the deficit by $2.7 trillion and raise the debt ceiling until after next year’s elections, saying it met the conditions that Republicans had laid down during the ongoing debt fight.

“We’re about to go over a cliff here,” Senator Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who serves as majority leader, said Monday afternoon as he outlined his proposal.

more...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/26/us/politics/26fiscal.html?_r=1&hp

[Thrill]

9. Unless he is going to be tough and go after the Republicans

for protecting the rich. He should just cancel it. No one wants to hear this "come on we can do this together" BS

[Bluenorthwest]

10. Hope it is not more of his utterly disproven bipatisan partners

theory.

[DCBob]

11. I think the President is going to lay it on the line.

This is the deal. There is no time left. Take or leave it... and if they leave it, threaten to use the 14th amendment.

[MrsCorleone]

12. Thanks for the heads up! nt

[MrsCorleone]

13. 20 minutes to go! nt

[Bobbie Jo]

14. Anybody have a link to a live stream?

I'm nowhere near a television.

Thanks! :hi:

[MrsCorleone]

15. Live Link inside:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

[Bobbie Jo]

16. Much appreciated!

:hi: Thank you!

[MrsCorleone]

20. You're welcome.

:hi:

[Dr Fate]

17. I hope he speaks to the concerns that centrists and republicans have, for a change.

Nt

[Dr Fate]

18. I hope he speaks to the concerns that centrists and republicans have, for a change.

Nt