Posted on 11/03/2014 6:17:58 AM PST by Red Badger
Vice President Joe Biden says he expects congressional Republicans to work to “get things done” if they win control of the Senate — and he notes the White House is prepared to give a little.
In an interview with CNN released on Monday, Biden said that while he still expects the Democrats to retain Senate control, he believes a Republican-controlled Senate will move beyond obstructionism.
“[G]oing into 2016, the Republicans have to make a decision whether they’re in control or not in control,” the vice president told Gloria Borger. “Are they going to begin to allow things to happen? Or are they going to continue to be obstructionists? And I think they’re going to choose to get things done.”
(Also on POLITICO: Final Senate survey: It's the GOP's to lose)
Biden said Republicans will be particularly inclined to make legislative progress due to increasing public frustration with gridlock in Washington and he added that the White House stands ready to find common ground with the congressional GOP.
“[L]ook, we’re — we’re ready to compromise,” Biden said.
The comments come as the Obama White House contemplates its final two years potentially with a GOP-controlled House and Senate. Throughout his presidency, President Barack Obama and administration officials have often fluctuated between trying to strike legislative compromise with congressional Republicans and railing against them for obstructing their agenda.
Still, despite most electoral models giving Republicans the edge in taking back the Senate, Biden said he thinks the Democrats will hold on. “I don’t agree with the oddsmakers,” he said. “I predict we’re going to … keep the Senate.”
Asked about why this election cycle might prove difficult for Democrats, the vice president suggested that he and Obama hadn’t done a good enough job in assuring the public on threats like Ebola and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
“[T]he president and I have to figure out how to better communicate exactly what’s being done,” Biden said. “That’s part of the problem.”
Biden has been more active on the campaign trail than Obama, who remains unpopular in many crucial states. The vice president in recent days has stumped for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist in Florida and Senate candidate Rep. Bruce Braley in Iowa.
EVIL is always ready to 'compromise'. It knows that getting a little is better than getting none....................
I see he hasn’t stopped lying in the last week.
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LOL... Obama has no clue how to compromise. He’s never had to.
Turtle boy Mitch and boner have already told them that they will give them anything they want.
Man... I hope that little bitch Mitch loses...
Now that's a hoot, after 6 years of the worst kind of stonewalling and after this BS President has routinely gone his own way and thumbed his nose at the Constitution, traditional protocols, diplomatic processes and has alienated every American and the entire globe... NOW they want to ‘co operate’?
They’re doing a great job of communicating what they’re doing
“[T]he president and I have to figure out how to better communicate exactly what’s being done,” Biden said. “That’s part of the problem.”
Delusion, death and destruction is the other part.
COMPROMISE!
The favorite word RINOs love to hear. It’s what they eat for breakfast along with surrender and political correctness.
If you want to “go along to get along (the motto of the Republican party)” COMPROMISE is what you do.
When you compromise you lose a lot and they gain a lot...at least that’s how they think the game is played.
However, the important thing is that the Republicans get to eat a whopping big piece of “feel good pie” and can go on to tell their voters they helped pass another fine bill. Shows good brinkmanship and goodwill you know.
General Patton never compromised and he won. Our Republican party has done nothing but compromise and they lost the war to keep our liberties and freedoms.
Yep! Compromise is what we all need.....according to the Republicans.
It’s a win-win for obola.... Either way he wins! But I’m going to be a Debbie downer in this post and say I don’t believe we will win the Senate and Congress will stay the same and nothing will change! But I’m willing to eat the biggest fattest crow if we win the Senate! Too many freebies, ignorant Americans AND illegals voting!
Send the hundreds of bills from the House Reid is stopping to the Presidents desk so he alone becomes the man, the party, of “NO!”
Yeah. The compromise will be, “Obama will rule by Executive Order, and if you object, we will kill you.”
Obama will never negotiate...it’s his way or no way. He will be on a mission. Every time the people speak, he throws a fit and strikes back.
Not buying it.
Obama is prepared to go The Full Mussolini with his phone and his pen.
Republicans—GDMFSOBB’s
Democrats—GDMFSOBB’s
I will be doing a long bicycle ride on Tuesday. The weather is going to be great. For forty years I’ve subscribed to the myth and voted straight Republican ticket and all it has done has been to bring us to the brink of virtual ruin as a nation and as a culture. The ballot box is not the solution. It’s now part of the problem.
You communicate (lie and blame) just fine, people understand just how bad this presidency has been, perhaps the worst in 100 years.
He has no interest in compromising when he has his pen and phone.
Dear Biden,
You, your cretin president, and Whorehouse Harry can shove your compromise up your collective Obamaholes.
We will be watching the republicans, and their future depends very heavily on whether or not they display some cojones.
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