Get a load of this quote from a Washington Post article (click here for link):

“Perhaps out of the Social Security debate, we will come out with a consensus on creating retirement security out of the other legs of the retirement savings stool,” said Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin (Md.), one of the few Ways and Means Committee Democrats who still consults closely with Republicans. “We may bear fruit this Congress. ” [emphasis added by me]

Just who’s this we Ben? Your Republican colleagues?