exactly what they should do

This is exactly how I'd hoped Republicans would deal with Obama's "invitation" to discuss healthcare before the cameras.  John Boehner makes public the House minority's written response.

Since then, the President has given dozens of speeches on health care reform, operating under the premise that the more the American people learn about his plan, the more they will come to like it.  Just the opposite has occurred: a majority of Americans oppose the House and Senate health care bills and want them scrapped so we can start over with a step-by-step approach focused on lowering costs for families and small businesses.

The letter then lists a series of questions probing the sincerity of the president's offer.

It's a good political response to a clearly political move.  I wonder if the White House will even reply.

Comments

[Hank Rearden]

On a related note:
I just went to thedailykos.com (which I do from time to time) to see what the left has to say about Obama's renewed call for bipartisan healthcare reform. Maybe I'm just not an "intellectual", but I get nauseous just trying follow the train of thought there. I wonder if editors at thedailykos.com (if indeed there are any) realize they aren't gaining readership through persuasion; that they're simply posting random liberal rants. In fact, the whole site is basically a monolith of liberal logorrhea at its absolute worst. Does anyone have some Dramamine?

[John "Left is Right" Smithson]

Imagine how we Lefties feel on sites such as this or (blech) WorldNetDaily...

Lefties don't try to convert through their sites any more than Righties try to convert on theirs...it's all a matter of seeking choruses of "Amen, Brother".

[Hank Rearden]

Well, this is just my opinion, so take it with the proverbial grain of salt; I'll agree that persuasion isn't always the goal. However, I've noticed that right-leaning sites tend to be better organized and easier to use. I've also found them geared more toward informative articles and less toward emotional rants. Likewise, the bloggers there tend to be a little more eloquent (or failing that, at least marginally less insulting). That's ultimately why I post here: because I know much of the discourse remains civil.

[John Galt]

John Smithson, I believe the right's message is a little more infectious than the left's. You can bring whatever preconceptions you have to an honest conservative discussion, but unless you actually shut off your ability to reason you risk being converted.

You can be liberal by letting your feelings drive your decisions.

Being conservative doesn't require you to turn off your feelings, and it's not the opposite of being liberal. It's the balance between liberal feeling and the actual, big-picture understanding that liberalism lacks.

Conservatism is the middle ground.