From REUTERS:
Top U.S. Republican [House Speaker] John Boehner said on Wednesday that Washington should find a short-term solution to avoid the fiscal cliff and then work on a substantive debt reduction plan in 2013…
“We won’t solve the problem of our fiscal imbalance overnight,” Boehner said after President Barack Obama won a second term in the White House and Republicans won enough seats to maintain control in the House.
Acknowledging Obama’s re-election victory, Boehner said House Republicans were willing to work with the White House and said they would accept new revenue under the right conditions…
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I hope the willingness to work with the White House is true. One of the things I, personally, want to see most in our government is both parties working together to make our country stronger and come back from the issues we’ve had, not against one another out of petty bullsh*t and differing political views.
We all have our opinions on things, but it doesn’t mean that there can not be compromise and middle ground. It’s what democracy is all about.