Why did Republicans agree to this charade? Obama stands in front of them behind a podium lecturing them like some expert professor and they sit there and politely listen like rapt undergraduates. Didn’t they consider the “optics” of this and how it would be exploited by Obama’s friends in the media? No wonder they’re called the Dumb Party.
One good thing is that the cameras were allowed in this meeting so now when 0bama blows it as surely he will it is on tape the things he said and promises he made to the other side of the aisle.