Obama recently announced that he would be holding a bipartisan meeting with the Senate in an attempt to finally reconcile some of the differences between the two sides. The session is apparently intended to allow the Republicans their promised public meeting to air their grievances against the health care bill. Hopefully, Obama says, the Senate will be able to move on with the bill once the Republicans have had their sufficient time to relay their opinions.
I think that with this special session, Obama is attempting to, for lack of a better word, expose the Republicans as simply being purposefully stubborn in regards to the bill. I think that he hopes that once the Republicans are documented on film available to the public as receiving their requested attention and not offering any better health care plans, they will be forced to become more accepting to the proposed bill. If they continue to be stubborn and protest the bill for no apparent reason, the public will begin to see that the Republicans are not in fact fighting in their best interest, but stagnating the entire legislative system of America. Hopefully, something good will come out of the session, like a new idea or two, or at the very least, force a few Republicans to stop acting like idiots and pass the bill.
Links:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/us/politics/08webobama.html?ref=politics
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0819338820100208
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