Hung out with katherine graham of the washington post, add adversary. met with a lot of people who would be on the other side. he made sure it wasn t possible. he tried to make friends with tip o neill and succeeded. is that something obama could have done more of, the soft soap stuff? basic human pr? probably could have done a little more of that. again, i don t think it would have done any good. as jonathan said it became apparent early on the republicans simply don t want to cooperate on anything. they ve made a political calculation on health care and on everything else. we have to stop obama from getting anything done. they re seeing everything through a political lens. they don t want anything to happen if it s going to help him. they ll have this health care summit coming up on the 25th but it s going to be largely theater who gets the best of the theater we ll have to see. the republicans have already made the calculation that our victory has to be his loss. the only way th