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White House, GOP wrangle over how to sit at a table, how to eat food

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Only one more day remains until President Obama, Congressional Democrats, and Congressional Republicans sit in a room and pretend to share ideas about health-care reform for the benefit of television cameras. And since no health-care-related things will actually matter tomorrow, how they sit is probably the most important aspect of the summit. Republicans and Democrats have actually been able to reach some consensus on that front. Because the GOP didn’t want Obama looking, you know, presidential, they demanded that he not speak at a podium. So instead, he will be seated at a large, hollow, square table with everyone else. There will be name cards, so the American people know exactly whom to credit for this piece of political theater. Obama will offer an opening statement, followed by comments by a Democrat and a Republican. But “important” questions remain.

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