As for Obama’s dinner last night, it went very well, according to various NBC conversations with the GOP participants. It was serious. It was respectful. And it was informative. (In fact, one senator told us that he learned, for the first time, the actual cuts that the president has put on the table. Leadership hadn’t shared that list with them before).Hold the phone -- a sitting Republican Senator had no idea what actual cuts Obama had put on the table? Look, I'm no expert in negotiation, but it seems to me that in order to reach a compromise with a political opponent, it might be just a little helpful if you actually knew your opponent's position beforehand.
If this doesn't prove conclusively that Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP leadership had no intention of compromising with Obama on anything, then I don't know what would.
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