Obama is busy reinterpreting his being thumped as being just a call to break the gridlock in Washington, DC. An excerpt is below, the complete text is here:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politi...age/ar-BBd8Ehn

President Obama said Wednesday that he accepts the American public’s message in the midterm elections that Washington needs to break its political gridlock, even as he will now face a tougher final two years in office after Republicans won control of the Senate for the first time in seven years.

“I hear you,” Obama said at a news conference in the East Room.

“Obviously, Republicans had a good night and they deserve credit for running good campaigns,” he added. “What stands out to me is that the American people . . . expect the people they elect to work as hard as they do, expect us to focus on their ambitions and not ours. They want us to get the job done. All of us in both parties have a responsibility to address that sentiment.”

Obama’s remarks came shortly after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), fresh off his party’s sweeping victory Tuesday, sounded a bipartisan note, calling on Obama and Democratic leaders to find common ground with the GOP during the next two years. The president had spoken with McConnell, who stands to become majority leader, by phone shortly before their news conferences.

“As president, I have a unique responsibility to try to make this town work,” Obama said. “All of us have reason to make all Americans feel the ground is stable underneath their feet . . . and folks here in Washington are concerned about them.”

McConnell, who is likely to become Senate majority leader, said in a speech at the University of Louisville that just because voters pushed Democrats out of power in the Senate doesn’t mean the two parties need to be at odds. “When the American people choose divided government, I don’t think it means they don’t want us to do anything,” he said. He also warned the president not to act unilaterally to reform immigration laws.