you ve worked in numerous withouts, both republican and democrat. isn t compromise key to accomplishing something? well, there are some issues on which things have rammed through with no republican votes, essentially, but coming back to one of the central issues for the next two years is how we re going to get ahold of this fiscal deficit. how we re going to get spending under control, how we re going to try to balance our books. there is no way we re going to get from here to some sort of solution to that without the two parties joining forces. there s simply not enough votes to do those things, whether it s reforming social security, doing home deductions, cutting defe e defense, all of those things require working across the aisles. if republicans come into the next year and democrats come in saying if you work with the other side, you re getting