"You don't; you just don't"

           You don’t call a joint session of Congress in order to deliver a campaign speech.

You don’t call a joint session of Congress as a mere ploy in a political chess game.

You don’t call a joint session of Congress in order to deliver a “to-be-continued-in-a-couple-weeks-when-I’ve-thought-this-out-more-fully” locker room speech for political partisans.

You don’t call a joint session of Congress in order to deliver nothing more than Stimulus Jr., or Shovel Ready 2.0.

And if your speech is so important that it merits a joint session of Congress, you don’t shift it haplessly around trying to avoid professional football, thereby reducing your allegedly momentous address to little more than a political pre-game show.

You don’t unless you’re a desperate amateur and have run out of ideas.  That brand of nonsense is the mark of a community organizer, not the prudent tactic of a master statesman, and not the purposeful and productive plotting of the most powerful man in the world.