12/20/11

Bam cozies up to progressive pals

Obama has had his "progressive" pals over for a cozy meeting over coffee. Jake Tapper at ABC's Political Punch reports that they included the Washington Post's Ezra Klein and Greg Sargent, MSNBC anchors Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Hayes, the Nation’s editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel, the New York Times‘ Frank Bruni, and stars of the interwebs Arianna Huffington, Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, Faiz Shakir of ThinkProgress and Joy Reid of The Reid Report. 
 What did they discuss? Tapper says: "The group chatted with the president about economic messaging, his agenda for 2012, the various campaign arguments against different GOP candidates, the desire among some Democrats for him to highlight his foreign policy accomplishments, fighting corporate influence and the “crappiness” of the Senate filibuster, as one attendee put it." 
 So we can assume that POTUS has  been given his  instructions for next  year.
[Thanks BJS]