Question: and i think that the lesson that some people are going to draw from your experience is don't do it: this idea of being bipartisan is a fool's errand and that the only thing that really works is expanding your base, keeping it fired up and trying to take it all. i mean, how do you respond to that?
Answer: i think it's fair to conclude from my experience in '08, '09, 2010 that we should always reach out to try to get bipartisan cooperation because the democrats are not going to have a supermajority in the senate. they're not going to be able to break filibusters routinely. and so if you want to get some stuff done, joe biden is going to have to work with some republican colleagues in the senate. but i think it is a fair critique to say that if you are seeing constant obstruction just for the sake of obstruction, where there doesn't seem a desire to cooperate even on issues or policies that republicans previously themselves promoted as happened during my presidency — i'm very careful to remind everybody that the model for the affordable care act was a plan that mitt romney had successfully passed with ted kennedy in massachusetts. and when i start talking about climate change issues, i describe how the cap-and-trade system was a policy that george h.w. bush, a republican, had implemented in solving other environmental issues. if you start getting a sense that it is just a pure power play, then you don't want to be lucy and charlie brown, where you just keep on kicking the football and not learning from experience that is going to be pulled out from under you. but i think that there is a way to reach out and not be a sap. there's a way of consistently offering the possibility of cooperation, but recognizing that if mitch mcconnell or others are refusing to cooperate, at some point, you've got to take it to the court of public opinion. the issue, the challenge that i discovered in 2009, 2010, is that an obstructionist strategy oftentimes is not punished by voters in the polls. and so, one big piece of advice i'm going to have for not just democrats but anybody who just wants to see a functioning effective government is you're going to have to stay involved, not just in this election where we had record turnout — you gotta stay involved all the way through the midterms. because [what] really hurt us was mitch mcconnell, john boehner, discovered that they could block everything, throw sand in the gears, and then were rewarded in the midterms. and so their attitude was "well, we're just gonna keep on doing this" and they did it throughout my presidency.
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  and i think that the lesson that some people are going to draw from your experience is don't do it: this idea of being bipartisan is a fool's errand and that the only thing that really works is expanding your base, keeping it fired up and trying to take it all. i mean, how do you respond to that?
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  i think it's fair to conclude from my experience in '08, '09, 2010 that we should always reach out to try to get bipartisan cooperation because the democrats are not going to have a supermajority in the senate. they're not going to be able to break filibusters routinely. and so if you want to get some stuff done, joe biden is going to have to work with some republican colleagues in the senate. but i think it is a fair critique to say that if you are seeing constant obstruction just for the sake of obstruction, where there doesn't seem a desire to cooperate even on issues or policies that republicans previously themselves promoted as happened during my presidency — i'm very careful to remind everybody that the model for the affordable care act was a plan that mitt romney had successfully passed with ted kennedy in massachusetts. and when i start talking about climate change issues, i describe how the cap-and-trade system was a policy that george h.w. bush, a republican, had implemented in solving other environmental issues. if you start getting a sense that it is just a pure power play, then you don't want to be lucy and charlie brown, where you just keep on kicking the football and not learning from experience that is going to be pulled out from under you. but i think that there is a way to reach out and not be a sap. there's a way of consistently offering the possibility of cooperation, but recognizing that if mitch mcconnell or others are refusing to cooperate, at some point, you've got to take it to the court of public opinion. the issue, the challenge that i discovered in 2009, 2010, is that an obstructionist strategy oftentimes is not punished by voters in the polls. and so, one big piece of advice i'm going to have for not just democrats but anybody who just wants to see a functioning effective government is you're going to have to stay involved, not just in this election where we had record turnout — you gotta stay involved all the way through the midterms. because [what] really hurt us was mitch mcconnell, john boehner, discovered that they could block everything, throw sand in the gears, and then were rewarded in the midterms. and so their attitude was "well, we're just gonna keep on doing this" and they did it throughout my presidency.