The White House admitted that the Kabuki Theater put on at the Blair House on February 25 allowed the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the USA, and the Democrats Statists in Congress a second chance to claim that they really had sought Republican input and without had no choice to move on without them.
In other words, the Stupid Party strikes again.
From The Prowler at The American Spectator, one White House aide said:
It allowed us to create the impression that Republicans had had a hand. It allowed the President afterward to claim he had included Republican proposals in the bill, and gave us a clear path to moving the process along, where before we didn’t. Your Republican friends will disagree, but the minute they agreed to that meeting, we knew we were at the least back in business.
Another White House aide opined:
If the Republicans had actually listened to Rush [Limbaugh] and [Mark] Levin and [Fred] Thompson and not attended, we might have been in different situation. Before February 25, we had no momentum, you just felt it, after the summit, when the President told Republicans that if we couldn’t agree, then we’d just have to move on without them, we had a bit of a opening and no major public opinion backlash.
In other words, Our Lord and Savior Barack Hussein Obama set the trap and Republicans walked right into it.
Thanks guys. No, really. Thanks.
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The ‘Rats were going to go forward with this Socialization with or without the Republicans’ attendance at Kabuki Theatre. The mere fact that it was held, not the presence or absence of Republicans, was the momentum-builder.
What attending does allow the Republicans to do is say that, in the one and only time the ‘Rats let them have a seat at the table, they offered alternatives, all of which were rejected out of hand by an overreaching ruling class, between now and November 2012.
It was a heads we win, tails you lose. Had the Republicans stayed away or walked out – it wouldn’t have mattered.
The Dems have the numbers in the House and Senate. All the WH wanted was a pretext. It wasn’t even that great of a plan or even well executed by them. All they wanted was ‘something’ to change the narrative.
SQUIRREL! A distraction.
At least we got Paul Ryan.
It is now all about Nov 2010. Failure and 2012 won’t matter.