President Barack Obama blamed Republicans in Congress for putting the country on the brink of financial disaster in a Tuesday press conference about the government shutdown that clocked more than an hour — but that wasn’t enough time for the president to take questions from TV reporters.

Speaker of the House John Boehner’s subsequent press conference, by contrast, ran fewer than 10 minutes.

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