Said address will certainly have to be shoe-horned in between parties, golf, campaign events, perhaps a few days in Williamsburg, some more campaigning…..
President Barack Obama will lay out a long-term deficit reduction plan this week, White House senior adviser David Plouffe said Sunday.
“The president will be laying out his approach to long-term deficit reduction later this week,†Plouffe said on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” adding that Obama’s budget for 2012 has already put forward a plan for reducing the deficit by a trillion dollars over the next 10 years.
White House communications director Dan Pfieffer later added that Obama would deliver the address on Wednesay.
Can you guess what is missing from that?
Plouffe forgot to say that Obama would do anything other than give a speech. He doesn’t say Obama will offer any sort of written plan, asking Congress and the American people to take a peek and see what they think. Like virtually every other Obama “priority”, Obama will say “what I want to do is” and tell someone else to do the actual hard lifting. News flash for you, Champ: you don’t have Nancy Pelosi carrying your water as House Speaker anymore.
