Bill Walker Meets with Obama

Discussions between President Obama and the nation’s governors began on a hopeful bipartisan note Monday but quickly devolved into a nasty dispute between Republicans and Democrats once the politicians got in front of the microphones.

Obama and members of his Cabinet welcomed all but a handful of top state leaders, in town for a National Governors Association meeting, to a roughly hour-long joint news conference at the White House to discuss a variety of issues, including funding for the National Guard, health care, energy development and a possible increase in the minimum wage.

Praising them for their practicality, the president said members of his Cabinet and staff were eager to work with them.

“You want to do right by your people and you see how good policy impacts your citizens, and you see how bad policy impacts your citizens, and that means that there’s less room for posturing and politics, and more room for getting stuff done,” he said.

“We won’t agree on every single issue every single time, but I guarantee you that we will work as hard as we can to make sure that you succeed — because when you succeed, the people in your states succeed and America succeeds, and that’s our goal.”

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