Obama: I'd Like 'to Bypass Congress and Change the Rules on My Own'

President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner will take their battle over debt to the national airwaves on Monday night in back-to-back dueling addresses to the nation as they struggle to win the battle over public opinion in the final days before the nation's mounting debt hits the legal ceiling.

The president will make his case at 9 p.m., followed quickly by a rebuttal from Boehner. The president is expected to build on the support signaled earlier in the day by the White House for a plan being championed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. But Boehner and the House Republicans have rejected the Reid plan, leaving the competing sides seemingly farther apart than at any time since the highly publized sparring began...

Earlier in the day, the president let his frustration over the stalled debt talks seep into an address on Latino issues, confessing that he’d like to “bypass Congress and change the laws on my own.”

He told the National Council of La Raza, “Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you.”