WASHINGTON — With major battles looming in the fall over the federal budget and the debt ceiling, President Obama is trying to regain the initiative, embarking on a campaign-style tour of the Midwest this week to lay out his agenda for reinvigorating the nation’s economy, administration officials said Sunday.
Yes that's cynical, and no I don't buy the view that presidential speechifying can Change Everything, but they do at least signal priorities. It's July, 2013, bitches.