For those old-fashioned (i.e., still have real jobs) types who prefer muted text to blaring video, the Washington _Post_ has the transcript of the Baltimore meeting between the president and the House GOP caucus “here”:http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2010/01/obamas-qa-with-house-republica.html.
Another interesting and tangentially related post is at “538.com”:http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/what-killed-obamas-approval-numbers.html, where Josh Nate Silver tries to figure out “what killed Obama’s approval numbers,” which dipped precipitously in the May-August 2009 period. Quick version: it wasn’t health care. Or the economy. Or Judge Sotomayor. Or Sarah Palin. Or Al Franken. Though they may all have been in the parlor, with the candlestick…