The Hill News

The unprecedented and embarrassing fight President Obama lost with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) over when he could come and address a joint session of Congress next week to outline a jobs agenda is a new low for Washington and for the presidency in general. But the bottom line â€" Obama started it. Whether or not the Speaker was going to respond with pettiness and partisanship, the White House knew when it picked the evening of Sept. 7 that it was stepping on the GOP presidential debate and that it would spark accusations of politics. That was a risk they took and it was foolish, beyond too cute by half.

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