By Wesley Pruden"Barack Obama dropped by the White House press room the other day to stick it to the Republicans in the name of comity and fellowship. He offered to cooperate with the Republicans in the Mafia spirit of making an "offer you can't refuse."
"I'm willing to move off some of the preferences of my party in order to meet them halfway," he told the reporters, "but there's got to be some give from their side as well. I also won't hesitate to condemn what I consider obstinacy."
The only way Republicans can demonstrate their lack of obstinacy, the president made clear, is to adopt the Democratic agenda and to tug a forelock and do it now. "Bipartisanship cannot mean that Democrats give up everything they believe in ... and then we have bipartisanship. That's not how it works in any realm of life." Then, stepping behind his wife's fashionable skirt, he tried a little domestic jest: "That's certainly not how it works in my marriage with Michelle, though I usually give in most of the time." Hint to Republicans: he'll play the wife, and you be the henpecked husband."
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