Don't react, read.
I don't care who says what to whom as far as the Republican leadereship is concerned. Sheehan's movement is gathering strength, due to favorable television coverage. The White House's strategery of ignoring her isn't paying off.
Read it clearly: they need to shut her up somehow. I never said meet with her. They need to counter her.
When your enemy is making an idiot of himself, move out of the way and let him do it. The more Sheehan talks the worse off she is. If the President is perceived as doing anything "to shut her up" he'll look like a bully mistreating a looney toon.