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Obama: next time call ahead (Chicago Sun-Times)

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"America needs a jobs plan, but President Obama might need a new social secretary.

When making a formal visit to somebody else’s house, it’s always best to agree upon the day and time well in advance, leaving no room for confusion, and bring a pie or a bottle of wine.

But Obama apparently failed to do so in arranging his visit to Capitol Hill next week to present his jobs plan before a joint session of Congress. Rather than nail down the date behind the scenes with House Speaker John A. Boehner, the White House on Wednesday sent Boehner a letter — released to the press almost simultaneously — asking to address Congress on Wednesday, Sept. 7.

The speaker, pressured by his party and conservative radio talkers, declined the request, saying Congress would be busy. He invited the president to drop by the next day, Sept. 8.

Democrats howled. Never in the history of the Republic, they said, had Congress turned down a president’s request to deliver an address on a particular day.

But Obama had shot himself in the foot this time. The White House knew perfectly well that an important televised Republican presidential debate — the first featuring Texas Gov. Rick Perry — was scheduled for the same evening. And the White House knew that the president’s speech would threaten to upstage the debate.

Add to that the GOP’s unrelenting hostility to all things Obama, and the president should have anticipated the blowback.

Worse yet for the president, he limps out of this looking weak. He had no choice late Wednesday but to accede to Boehner’s invitation to address Congress on Sept. 8.

Ironically, as Democratic Party operative James Carville joked on Thursday, Boehner may have done Obama a favor, saving the president’s speech from being upstaged by a potential “barn burner” of a debate.

“Given a choice between watching a debate and the speech I would have watched the debate, and I’m not even a Republican,” he told ABC News.

Next time, Mr. President, call ahead and bring a pie."

http://www.suntimes.com/opinions/7405766-474/editorial-obama-stumbles-into-trouble-with-the-gop.html

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"Conservative columnist Matthew Vadum is just going to come right out and say it: registering the poor to vote is un-American and "like handing out burglary tools to criminals."

"It is profoundly antisocial and un-American to empower the nonproductive segments of the population to destroy the country -- which is precisely why Barack Obama zealously supports registering welfare recipients to vote," Vadum, the author of a book published by World Net Daily that attacks the now-defunct community organizing group ACORN, writes in a column for the American Thinker.

"Encouraging those who burden society to participate in elections isn't about helping the poor," Vadum writes. "It's about helping the poor to help themselves to others' money. It's about raw so-called social justice. It's about moving America ever farther away from the small-government ideals of the Founding Fathers."

Most conservative criticism of voter registration drives aimed at poor and minority communities has been under the guise of worries about voter fraud. Vadum's column is notable because he isn't just pretending to be worried about the nearly non-existent threat of in-person voter fraud -- he just doesn't think poor people should be voting.

Late Update: Responding to what he says are misrepresentations of his view, Vadum writes that of course he thinks poor people have the right to vote, he just doesn't want anybody to help them since their votes "could lead to the destruction of the republic."

Vadum clarifies that it is "destructive to register welfare recipients to vote so that they can vote themselves more government benefits. It is even worse that our tax dollars are used to register welfare recipients at welfare offices. It is a policy that would cause the Founding Fathers to roll over in their graves."

But, he adds: "Of course those who are legally qualified to vote should be allowed to vote but our tax dollars shouldn't be used to underwrite the destruction of the republic.""

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/columnist_registering_poor_to_vote_like_handing_out_burglary_tools_to_criminals.php?ref=fpb