Eight days after his re-election - with the fiscal cliff looming, questions being raised about the deadly attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and a scandal having forced the director of the CIA to resign - President Obama today told reporters "I didn't re-elected just to bask in re-election. I got re-elected to do work."
In his first full-scale Q&A with White House reporters since March, the president signaled there may be some room for compromise on taxes. While he repeated that the wealthiest Americans must be asked to do more and that the middle class can't be left footing any such bill, Obama also did not insist on raising tax rates for the wealthiest to Clinton-era rates.
He said that "comprehensive" immigration reform legislation will be on Capitol Hill soon after Inauguration Day.