in his weekly address, President Barack Obama says time is running out on averting a debt ceiling default. And he contends the Republicans wasted precious time on Speaker of the House John Boehner’s plan, which pass without a single Democratic vote and was swiftly killed in the Democratic controlled Senate:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.