President Obama has sent a letter to congressional leaders outlining four GOP ideas from last week’s health care summit that he’s amenable to including in the reform bill.
To be clear, nearly all the evidence suggests that Democrats went into the summit prepared to moved ahead with or without the Republicans. Likewise, the Republicans went into the summit with no real political upside for them in ceding any ground to the President. Both sides went through the motions to inoculate themselves from the dreaded charge of being too partisan. I can’t really argue with the political logic on either side. But it’s important context, and it means this letter is part of keeping up appearances.
If this were football, you’d say Obama is a quarterback making sure to “sell the fake.”
