The best example of "Inside the Beltway mentality" could be heard this morning in your interview with Cokie Roberts when she said "... and there are people in Washington who think that the fact that the First Lady performed so nicely at the White House Correspondent's Dinner Saturday night has softened up the President's somewhat image going into this fight as well."
If this is of importance as our Nation debates the fate of the most important and successful government economic program in our history then the United States is in more trouble than I thought.