Elections have consequences.
Via The Hill:
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) called for the next president to instill a renewed sense of bipartisanship in government so Congress can be more productive and less contentious.
Warner, a supporter of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, laid out his vision for the next administration in a radio interview with John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable” on New York’s AM 970.
“Those first few months of the next president’s administration is gonna be really important to set a new tone,” Warner said. “It’s gotta be bipartisan. It’s gotta recognize that the best policy is made not by the people with the loudest voices on either end of the political spectrum.
“We’ve gotta put some points on the board for our country,” he continued. “And that’s gonna require somebody who’s gonna be willing to compromise.”
Warner added that the next president shouldn’t try to rehash old arguments on which the two parties can’t find middle ground. He also lamented the unpopularity in both parties of reaching across the aisle.
“Too often, the extremes in both political parties call out those of us who try to be bipartisan,” he said.