Those attending the meeting included Eric Cantor, Jeb Hensarling, Pete Hoekstra, Dan Lungren, Kevin McCarthy, Paul Ryan, and Pete Sessions as the House Representatives and Tom Coburn, Bob Corker, Jim DeMint, John Ensign, and Jon Kyl from the Senate. Newt Gingrich and Frank Luntz, both "non-lawmakers," were also in attendance. Luntz was the organizer of the meeting.
Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives is a 2012 book by author Robert Draper and published by Free Press. It details the activities of Republicans and Democrats in the United States House of Representatives and the Senate during the first term of Barack Obama's presidency.
Multiple suggestions were put forward on how to direct their focus, suggesting the group go after "Timothy Geithner for failing to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes while at the International Monetary Fund". In the same vein, Gingrich pointed out that "Charlie Rangel had a similar tax problem." Draper quotes in his book the four points that were decided upon in the meeting.
(1) The first was to focus on Geithner, (2) to oppose any economic policies put forth by Obama, (3) to utilize attack ads against "vulnerable Democrats" on radio and television, and the fourth and final decision was to form a majority in the House in 2010 and the Senate and presidency in 2012.[3]
Draper writes about a boozy dinner gathering of prominent congressional Republicans on the night of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, at which the attendees plotted how to stop Obama’s agenda.
The takeaway from this revelation in the prologue of Draper’s book is that Obama never had a chance to succeed with Republicans in Congress determined to see him fail.
Private dining room that night at the Washington, D.C. restaurant The Caucus Room.
“We’ve gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign,” California Rep. Kevin McCarthy says in Draper’s book.
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