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 Washington Post:
Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to participate in President Obama’s proposed health care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over.
In a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio) and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) expressed frustration at reports that Obama intends to put the Democratic bills on the table for discussion at the Feb. 25 summit.
“If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate,” Boehner and Cantor wrote.
It’s good to see the GOP bringing its foreign policy principles into the domestic arena. Because this maneuver echos the Republican approach to diplomacy with rival nations. “We’ll negotiate with you — as long as you surrender to all our demands before we meet at the negotiating table!” Hey, if it’s good enough to keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons it ought to be good enough to stop health reform, right?
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