White House Reiterates: Absolutely No Compromise With Dems On Iraq
April 10, 2007 -- 2:38 PM EST // //
You've really gotta check out the video of this exchange between reporters and White House press secretary Dana Perino at today's briefing.
In it, press secretary Dana Perino clarifies just what the President meant today when he invited Congressional Democrats to discuss the future of Iraq. In a sense Bush's invitation, really, is for Congressional Dems to sit down and listen to a President whose approval rating is in the low 30s tell them to hurry up and get about doing his bidding and put aside their silly little delusions about constituting an elected co-equal branch of the U.S. government.
Is that an overstatement? Take a look:
Perino said: "This is not a meeting in order to compromise." I'm not sure how much clearer it gets than that. There's always the chance that this is just pre-negotiation bluster, but given what we know of this White House, there's absolutely no reason to assume anything but that the White House means this and nothing else.
Oh, and how about that smug little grin at the end -- lovely, huh?
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