OH, NOT AGAIN - AT 5:02 P.M. ET:  As if we weren't blessed enough, we are about to be addressed one more time by the one, the only, the guy we've all been waiting for...Barack!  (Sustained applause)

The president will address a joint session of Congress on the subject of health- care "reform" on September 9th.  This comes one day after he will address the nation's students, in their madrassas, by live TV hookup.  The New York Times announces:

President Barack Obama plans to begin an increasingly personal push for his embattled health care initiative with a televised address before a joint session of Congress next Wednesday night, an administration official said.

The president’s speech is timed for Congress’s return after an August recess that took its toll on his signature domestic issue after opponents disrupted lawmakers’ town hall meetings on the subject and national polls charted slippage in support for Mr. Obama and his proposed overhaul of the health care system.

The administration also is trying to compile a simplified and lower-cost blueprint for legislation that would plainly put Mr. Obama’s stamp on the issue, and more clearly identify it with him. The effort amounts to an acknowledgement that the president’s previous tactics of laying out principles and leaving Congress to fill in the details were no longer working.

COMMENT:  Nothing like a little overexposure.  This is a clear example of how this administration runs things - government by speech.  Obama still believes, despite his experience in recent months, that he can convince people of anything, that only when HE rises to speak do the mountains move and the waters recede.  He recently held a major press conference on health care that the in-the-tank media dutifully covered.  He had precious air time, but couldn't even describe his own health-care program.  And what is the solution?  Another speech.

The president's TV ratings have been going constantly down, along with his poll ratings.  Let's see if this new encore will be any different.

Frankly, I think people are bored with him, as they would be bored by any salesman after the first few pitches fail to work.

September 2, 2009