Obama Will Do Another Q&A -- This One With Democrats

Obama Will Do Another Q&A -- This One With Democrats

Less than a week after his electrifying parley with House Republicans, President Obama will be doing another televised question-and-answer session tomorrow morning -- this one with the Senate Democratic Caucus.

Staffers from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office and White House aides tell the Huffington Post that the president will meet with the caucus at the Newseum, where the senators will be assembled for an issues conference to discuss policy, strategy and message for the coming year. The meeting will begin at 10:00 a.m.

White House advisers were thrilled with Obama's defiant, substantive and engaging dialogue at a House Republican retreat last Friday; tough and sometimes misleading questions seemed to bring the best out in him.

Reid's office tells the Huffington Post that camera crews will record Obama's remarks tomorrow -- and will be allowed to continue rolling once the questions start coming.

Despite the growing amount of frustration with Obama from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, the questions at the Newseum are unlikely to be anywhere near as confrontational as those from the Republicans.

The Huffington Post asked some Democratic House lawmakers whether they would want to have an opportunity to question Obama, and the consensus was that they would hesitate to press him very hard in public, out of a sense of party loyalty.

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