"President Obama urged Republicans to abandon their obstructionist tactics and work with Democrats to pass comprehensive reform."

Get real! ;-D Why would the Republicans do that? They have no desire to work with the Democrats to pass anything. They wish the Democrats to fail, and they want to maintain and aggravate the divisions in your country...with an eye toward gaining ground in the midterm elections.

I can see why Obama would urge them to, though. It's good political theatre.