If Obama was being open about the whole bill, why only CSPAN the meeting with the opposition, why not all the closed door meetings? Open and transparent, my ass.
This is the heart of the issue I think. As said previously, many of us were furious that the GOP agreed to this meeting at all. We thought the GOP leaders should have told the President that the people had spoken, socialized medicine was dead, and they were not interested in resurrecting it. By attending that meeting they were keeping it on the table.
Well, as it turned out, we skeptics were wrong. The GOP in attendance, the American people, and even the mainstream media who watched were not fooled.
They saw that His Arrogance was not the least bit interested in GOP input. Maggie pointed out that he agreed to consider GOP suggestions or stated they were already in the bill. Well, they aren't in the bill, and the lawyer in Obama was careful not to agree to anything. He made a good show of reasonableness, but seemed very uncomfortable that the GOP actually came to discuss what they wanted in the way of healthcare reform. He made sure they had as little time to express that as possible.
So, it was the GOP who appeared to be operating in good faith. Not the POTUS.
As David Gergen noted following the meeting, it was the Republican's best day in years.
And there is no indication that the Democrats intend to do anything any more transparently than they have.