White House spokesmen Robert Gibbs and Dan Pfeiffer started out the week of the bipartisan health care summit by accusing Republicans, once again, of having no plan:
The President believes strongly that Thursday’s bipartisan meeting on health insurance reform will be most productive if both sides come to the table with a unified plan to start discussion – and if the public has the opportunity to inspect those proposals up close before the meeting happens.
That’s why yesterday the White House posted online the President’s proposal for bridging the differences between the Senate- and House-passed health insurance reform bills...
As we said today, we’ll be happy to post the Republican plan on our website once they indicate to us which one we should post. We hope they won’t pass up this opportunity to make their case to the American people.
Politico was first to the punch, noting that the White House's own website already links to the allegedly non-existent GOP plan, online: