Obviously.

Via Grabien:

“The president is determined to make progress where he can on his own. As the president has many times, particularly in the aftermath of midterm elections, we cannot allow a disagreement over one thing to be a deal breaker over all the others. So I have no doubt that there will be some Republicans who are going to be critical. Policy proposals that the president pursues on his own benefit middle class families. That’s — that may be an area where an honest disagreement exists. We are mostly focused on, and we have conversations with Republicans, is figuring out where is their common ground, where do we agree. And disagreements may be more plentiful but that’s all the more reason we should spend a lot of time looking for that area of common ground and the president will do that. He did that at the end of the last year and he will do that as this year gets underway.”