Reply #64: I am hoping the question is irrelevant.,

[Warren Stupidity]

And, by the way, you could ask the same question about Clinton and get the same answer. Hopefully the republicans will not only lose the white house, they will lose a lot more seats in congress as well. Enough seats to render the question of bipartisanship more or less irrelevant.

Now back to your question: no of course not, the republican leadership will do everything they can do to sabotage any democratic administration. The bipartisan era ended in 1974 with the resignation of Rchard Nixon. For a variety of reasons the Democratic leadership insists on maintaining the fiction of bipartisanship, despite having been swindled back stabbed tricked blind-sided defrauded kicked in the nuts and humiliated on numerous occasions by the folks they are 'bipartisaning' with. Not only will the republican leadership go into open warfare mode, but they of course have a very disciplined rank and file in the congress, again unlike our side, so there will be very little chipping away at them. Of course we could always have the sort of bipartisanship of the Clinton era where the various remnants of the social democratic reforms of the new deal are chipped away at by free market fundamentalists on both sides of the aisle.