President Obama is not the only big name appearing in Baltimore today before the Republican caucus of the House of Representatives.

Lou Holtz, former football coach at Notre Dame, is the dinner speaker.

I wonder if he’ll say, “In football and in governing, you want to keep your opponent from scoring, but you also have to try to put the ball across the goal line yourself.”

Holtz is a longtime Republican activist, according to the Sun. So I doubt if he’ll criticize his hosts.

But President Obama did in his State of the Union speech, declaring, “Just saying no to everything may be good short term politics, but it’s not leadership.”

It’s about time he took the offensive on the GOP’s obstructionist strategy.