Ensign: GOP will look toward Obama for cooperation

Sen. John Ensign
(Nev.) on Wednesday indicated that Republicans would look to work with
President Obama more than their Democratic counterparts in Congress.

{mosads}“It’s really not
a time to be obstructionist,” Ensign, chairman of the Senate Republican Policy
Committee, said on Fox News. “It’s a time where we as a party need to try to
work with especially President Obama and try to solve some of the country’s
problems.”

The senator said
Republicans would still voice their disagreements but would seek out issues on
which they can cooperate with the new president.

“As a matter of
fact, I think he might have a little easier time working with us than he’s
going to have working with a Democrat-controlled Congress,” Ensign said, adding
that “as President Obama has come in, he has talked like he wants to govern
from the center. Well, the Democrats in the Congress are certainly not
governing from the center.”

The Republican
senator, who praised Obama for having some “really good ideas” coming into
office, said given the myriad of challenges facing the nation, it is time to
“put the country before our party.”