Breaking now to The Daily Trough: a caddy in the important Obama-Boehner June golf meeting at Andrews AFB has come forward with information on the current impasse between both leaders.
This caddy strongly resembles Paul Krugman but said this appearance is entirely coincidental. “No,” he said. “My name is Joe. Joe Steigwitz.”
He said Boehner consistently out-drove Obama, whose shots tended to drift to the right, sometimes with what Steigwitz called “a wild duck hook right.” But more important, Steigwitz kept his face down and stood close to their conversation on the debt-ceiling problem.
President Obama reminded Speaker Boehner of an important principle he had learned from recently departed Rahm Emmanuel, “A crisis is too good an opportunity to miss,” and both hummed and hawwed that they only hoped they could work the situation effectively enough so that nothing unpleasant happened to their relationship.
“I don’t want to be left at the alter,” Obama said at one point.
“At all events we must make sure it goes right down to the wire,” Boehner remarked as they headed into the back nine. He turned to Obama with blazing blue eyes and stuck out his right hand.
In the next few moments both men emphasized “management,” “gambling with the polls,” and “the correct 2012 posture.”
“It’s something like theater,” Obama said. “You know, I’m definitely attracted to theater as a second career.”