Republicans avoid Obama's health care summit briar patch

Republicans appear to have learned their lesson about letting President Obama use them for media props. Rather than just agreeing to show up at the proposed health care summit, they decided they'd put the White House through a test of their own. In a letter to the White House, House Minority Leader John Boehner and Minority Whip Eric Cantor (Va.) state:

"If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate."