Who informs the government?

I was more than a bit surprised to watch the President's and the Congress's reactions to the tragic shootings at Ft. Hood, Texas today. We were watching Fox News which cut away to what we thought was a Presidential news conference. But Obama was talking about something totally different--acknowledging people in the audience, etc., and then apparently someone slipped him a note, and he finally began to address, without a teleprompter, what the rest of the nation already knew. But he knew less than we did (at least those watching Fox), and stumbled and stammered. Don't his people keep him informed? I checked the CNN video which didn't show what we saw. That's ObamaNews, I guess.

Then Fox cut away to an announcement from Congress. They planned to observe a moment of silence and then get back to work on the all important bills for . . . what? Well, at that point, no one really knew (still don't) what happened in Texas. Isn't Ms. Pelosi third in line to be president? Were precautions being taken to protect her? Have they all forgotten that there were multiple targets on 9/11? Or the Virginia Tech shooter? Have they ever heard of diversionary tactics? Let's hope this was only one deranged, disturbed man who had his own personal demons, but you would think until there was a full investigation, our elected officials would be a bit more cautious.