Paul thinks Americans would rather watch this than see the president push for jobs
Dave Weigel
reports that Ron Paul may formally object to President Obama's jobs speech next week because it conflicts with a GOP presidential debate:
"Dr. Paul is weighing his options," says the congressman's campaign spokesman, Jesse Benton. "Our campaign, however, thinks it is undignified that the President of the United States would resort to such transparent tactics to step on our Republican debate. The real losers here are the American People who deserve the opportunity to hear from both the President and the GOP contenders."
There's something like twenty GOP presidential debates already in the calendar, including at least three of them next month alone. So if we have to put everything on hold every time they take the stage to blather on about how the Earth is 6,000 years old and how the most important issue facing the country is whether two people of the same sex want to get married, we're going to be doing a lot of putting things on hold.
And while Ron Paul and tea partying Republicans might think their debate is more important than pushing Congress to finally get something done on job creation, I'll bet every last cent in my pocket that the rest of America disagrees.
12:39 PM PT: HuffPost's Michael Calderone reports that common sense prevails:
John Harris tells me NBC/Politico's GOP presidential debate will be after Obama is done.