Today Barack Obama held his healthcare summit. Nothing happened. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans budged from their pre-summit positions. And, you know what, that was the expected result. It was the Democrats intended result.A Democrat source told Politico that the summit itself was held simply to "give a face to gridlock, in the form of House and Senate Republicans." (Link to story here.) It was never intended, at least by the Democrats, as a forum to share ideas or work toward some agreement.
Plans have already been made, according to the same Politico story, to push toward the shady, partisan, Democrats-only process of reconciliation next week.
Public opinion be damned. (Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.)
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