The Republican Party plans to use purse to repeal the health law. Two possible proposals are 1) Republicans will propose limiting the money and personnel available to the Internal Revenue Services; 2) Republicans plan to use spending bills to block federal insurance regulations to which they object. In response to GOP's stance on the health law, President Obama will explain how the law protects consumers and it gives consumers more control of their insurance. The different believes on the health law is the biggest obstacle to cooperation between President Obama and Republican in Congress (New York Times).
On November 3, President Obama held a press conference in the East Room of the White House. He showed his willingness of cooperating with the Republican Party, especially on issues of education, tax, clean energy, and technology. He tried to weaken the discordance between the two parties by saying that "As I’ve said before, no person, no party, has a monopoly on wisdom. That’s why I want to engage both Democrats and Republicans in serious conversations about where we’re going as a nation."
I think this cooperation will be hard because the health law is related to one of the most fundamental different believes of the two parties. Everything takes time, as President Obama said on the Daily Show on October 27 that "It's not going to happen overnight". As long as the benefits of the health law do not show, there will be endless interrogations, doubts, and complaints. I don't think the cooperation on education, clean energy, and tax will soothe the tension between the Republican and the Democratic Party, because the top priority of the nation is the economy. Only when the economy starts to resurgent could the other issues be real issues.
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