I can imagine the Republicans pulling themselves together and coming up with an effective game plan, and messaging strategy, for that televised conflab the House Republicans had with Obama on Friday.  The object, I guess, would be to find a way to find a way to trip him up — get a malpropism, misspeak, or that hasty attempt to cover up and say nothing which occasionally happens.  Obama came out ahead in this exercise, dashing away at some breeding problems that had entered his political fortunes.  I suppose had he been closer to the cariacture of the “TelePrompter” president, he would have faltered more.

I can’t quite imagine the Democrats putting forth a united message in that same hypothetical spot.  Then again, the President Bush would just be grating.  And then again, again, a third of the Democratic Party would be taking the opportunity to ask questions asserting a “Centrism”.  This has Political Grandstanding stamped all over it.

Likewise, imagine this conflab ala the British Prime Minister Question session.  In the end, the game is just having the parties lined up, and jeering at each other.  And or. I’ve long thought that this item of Great Britain’s political system should be imported over here, stateside.  But at this moment, after Obama’s performance before the House Republicans, with this thought exiting a theoretical arena and entering slightly into a matter of practical consideration, I am no longer so sure.   It looks like one more irrelevant nature of added political acting in a political culture.

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