Democrats recaptured the House in November in large part due to a surge of liberal energy. At a town-hall-style event hosted by the Obama Foundation in Berlin, the former president was asked about the art of compromise. But you also can’t operate in a system where you compromise on everything; everything’s up for grabs. Obama told the crowd that, while his signature domestic achievement — the 2010 Affordable Care Act — did not contain everything he wanted, he viewed its passage as a success. “That was not the ideal health-care program that I wanted to set up.

Source: Washington Post April 06, 2019 16:52 UTC