The White House has been putting out word recently, as it does at the beginning of every year, that this time, finally, at last, President Obama is going to work closely with Congress to get things done and find areas of common ground and so forth. But that’s really just for laughs. Obama has no intention of doing anything much with Republicans. It’s very inconvenient to hold meetings, twist arms, build relationships and forge coalitions, and Obama is temperamentally unsuited to such political grunt work, which is why he’s never really done it. And he won’t this time. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest today inadvertently gave up ruse in answer to a question by AP’s Julie Pace, whose very first question at the first briefing of the year was about whether Obama had talked to any Republicans recently or had any plans to. Said Earnest: Julie, I don’t know of any presidential calls that occurred while the President was in Hawaii.
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