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... I ... the ... welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel and present Obama is meeting with House Republicans today still use the GOP ... winning the PR battle ... of the political diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley here to talk about it ... Jason ... sickly through ... the numbers here we've got a recent poll ... showing public thinks ... while ... this poll is not an outlier Mary this poll shows that ... Republicans are being blamed for the share count ... more than the present ... and more than the Democrats in Congress ... and I think Republicans are in denial about these results because ... these polls of inconsistent ... bidding they were consistent ... during the last government shutdown ... and they were consistent ... leading up to the government shutdown married yet and it's also very high because it's me you Republicans I think to look for things ... that they don't support ... yes and I think that is how they know in their ... hearts ... that they are losing the PR campaign event ... tenants film spending bills I believe that the House has passed since the shutdown and you look at some of the items the funding Head Start Mary ... Republicans right really rail against this program for preschool kids ... as of the joke is something that does not warrant ... by that I like it is in third fourth grade you cannot tell those who went a head start ... from those who didn't it doesn't work for here there are finding it because the Democrats are trotting out can see I it's not just in and started just looking at this list people see that the women infants and children and other food assistance program full of fraud and abuse ... along with food stamps the Republicans regularly criticize ... here they are funding is another one is the FTA ... the program are they a ... department in the federal government ... the Republicans really criticized for raising the cost of drug research for slow walking remedies for sick people but here they are finding I think they know ... they're losing that the businesses desperation CCO pub they'll need to tell a loss on is coming to the table he's talking with House Republicans doesn't that show ... a little more flexibility on the part of the White House isn't that a sign that they're getting some Republicans are right and that we got to this point because the weak ... leadership of this process this is why ... we are here but we are here and ... we're not ... in the past and we need to go forth from here and I think it because the GOP to realize that and work forward in the war to God this must ... go in for another as a sign here that the president feels ... a little bit of a pinch but I still think ... present Obama thinks he has the upper hand he will only give ... so much but we did have the announcement of a coming announcement the Janet Yellen ... to be named to head ... the Federal Reserve and I think that is a sign ... that the present wants to calm markets the market will like this she stable she's unknown quantity that took the markets want and present Obama ... thinks that this could go up to the debt ... showdown in a couple weeks and he wants the markets to be ... home and I think ... naming her not to be named or we knew that was coming that they decided to name her now like the Assad is a lesson thirty lesson thirty seconds left the president says no one wants a shot down the GOP suddenly shut down the government so I'm not can negotiate ... his ear on the New Republic is really going to go to that one ... I don't think there are I don't think that Republicans when push comes to shove ... I'm going to allow us to optical Klepierre and I don't think that's going to happen ... I think the president knows that the cousin also knows he still has the votes in the Senate ... Republicans know they cannot push for well over ... so get with the GOP you are losing