Absolutely STUPID to meet with Obama... the Left Wing media will not publish or broadcast anything the Republicans say at this meeting. And the Great Unwashed - the American People (as President Johnson call them) will get a one sided story.
Obama and his cohorts will manipulate the entire event - morphing it into a Republican endorsement of the Health Care Reform package ... Obama will use the meeting (as it is morphed and manipulated) to claim Republicans either would not compromise and the 51 vote Reconciliation vote is mandatory -— OR that the Repugs endorse the program... and have the 51 votes - approving legislation.
The Republicans have no balls - or they would Just Say NO! and hold their own event broadcast on CSPAN... sticking their collective thumbs into the Obama’s eye.
They have to. Of course they will twist it but they always do. Boycotting the meeting would be far worse. Running away is cowardly and would give the media a much easier time in spinning this against the GOP. Far as the GOP going on C-Span instead....only political junkies watch that. Most Americans would see brief clips of it on the networks with commentary by leftists telling Americans how Republicans dishonored the office of the Presidency by refusing to meet with Obama.