At Politico,
Behind delayed summit: Republican distrust of President Obama
The roots of the partisan standoff that led to the postponement of the bipartisan White House summit scheduled for Thursday date back to January, when President Barack Obama dominated a GOP meeting in Baltimore and delivered a humiliating rebuke to House Republicans.
The one-sided televised presidential lecture, which many Republicans decried as a political ambush — Obama’s staff wanted the event to be broadcast and GOP aides agreed reluctantly at the last minute — has left a lingering distrust of Obama invitations and a wariness about accommodating every scheduling request emanating from the West Wing, aides tell POLITICO.
That, and those thousand-pages long legislation that the Dems passed, unread, and unseen to the Republicans until the very last moment.
Be prepared to read dozens of articles like Politico’s in the upcoming months. This is the new meme.
