From CNN:
A top Senate Republican accused President Barack Obama of engaging in hypocritical political posturing Tuesday after a closed door meeting between the president and Senate Republicans on Capitol Hill.
The meeting was portrayed by the White House as the latest in a series of presidential attempts to reach across the aisle despite Washington's harshly polarized political climate.
"If he wants to meet us in the middle ... obviously we'd be happy to do that," McConnell said.
Several sources characterized the meeting as tense at times and indicated that several Republicans became frustrated.
There's alot I can say about this retread. So much I can say about McConnell and his broken-record mantra of "if they just meet us halfway", but one of the commenters to this article stated it as well as anyone could. BeverlyNC said the following:
"That was a total waste of time. Republicans are not going to do anything to help this country. No matter what it is they are going to vote NO and going to play nasty lying and hate games to distort what President Obama is trying to accomplish for the People.
Mitch McConnell is a liar and has lied so many times this year on how the Republicans are going to "be bipartisan" and every single time when it comes time to stand up and be counted – Republicans tell more lies and refuse to pass the agreed-upon legislation.
Republicans are idiots. President Obama has succeeded at EVERY issue he went after and the Republicans were the fools who made themselves irrelevant by showing they are NOT needed for the Democrats to lead the country to recovery.
Republicans have been traitors to their oath of office to serve and to the People. The only time they did anything was to stand up for abusive corporations that harm Americans – the insurance companies, the banks, and now they want us to "leave BP Oil alone". Republicans care NOTHING about the People or what we are facing.
Republicans can't come up with one solution for a current issue but they sure can try to destroy the most successful and decent human rights components of our society. Rand Paul is their poster child for hate, racism, lies, and moving America backwards. Republicans are dangerous to the future of our country and we need to get these do-nothings out of office."
Amen.