What A Waste!

From The Hill this morning:

Obama: House Republicans wasted ‘precious days’ with Boehner plan
By Gautham Nagesh – 07/30/11 06:00 AM ET

President Obama used his his weekly address to call out House Republicans for holding up the process of getting “our fiscal house in order.”

But exactly one month ago, Obama skipped town:

Obama Skips Deficit Talks for Philly Fundraisers
Alana Goodman 06.30.2011 – 3:05 PM

Despite complaining Congress isn’t trying hard enough to nail down a deficit deal yesterday, President Obama snubbed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s invitation to discuss the issue with Senate Republicans today. Instead, the president is jetting off to Philadelphia, where he’ll be attending two DNC campaign fundraisers this evening.

Perhaps if the president had stayed in Philadelphia a deal could have been done by now since, as Keith Hennessey explained in some detail, about a week ago

there was a tentative agreement among Speaker Boehner, Senate Majority Leader Reid, and Senate Minority Leader McConnell on the outline of a bill to increase the debt limit and cut spending…. [A]nd the President blew it up.”

Say What?