Baltimore Chop

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOzyk9smcQ0&w=260] Obama makes explicit pitch to House GOPers for bipartisan cooperation at issues retreat Friday in Maryland. "Bipartisanship – not for its own sake, but to solve problems – that's what our constituents, the American people, need from us right now." "We have to close the gap between the rhetoric and the reality." TRANSCRIPT: Here. POOL REPORT: Here.