Senator Mitch McConnell now says that congressional Republicans want to work with President Obama. That's a total reversal of their philosophy as proclaimed by McConnell before Obama began his first term, which was to make Obama a one-term president, and their way of doing that was to work against virtually everything the Obama administration proposed. What changed is that Republicans now control Congress, and McConnell will be senate majority leader. The only reason they now claim they want to compromise is because they think they can have everything their way.