I’ve spent much of the day in a meeting so maybe I’m missing something. Jay Carney reiterated today that the White House won’t go public with details of the negotiations. Specifically, the White House won’t talk about what it’s willing to cut from entitlements. Okay, so much for going public, what about going private? It seems to me that the GOP leaders don’t have a very good sense of what Obama is offering either. In other words, it’s one thing to blame your public silence on your need to maintain frank negotiations in private. It’s another thing to lie about being frank in private so you can score points in public. So far, all the evidence that Obama is willing to make painful concessions is his say-so.