To show he means business, President Obama will give his purportedly game-changing health-care speech one week from today before a joint session of Congress, which he’s only called once before for his Not State of the Union address. The venue will likely draw more interest than a tired old Oval Office speech or, worse, a prime-time presser, though there is always the risk that viewers will simply be distracted by Nancy Pelosi’s excessive blinking. [Politico]
