Obama: Republicans "do what they're told"

President Obama keeps developing that new post-partisan tone in Washington.

Check out the video at Politico that shows him praising Democrats for independent thinking and backhanding Republicans for "doing what they're told."

This belief provides the president with a wonderful opportunity. If he can just get enough independent-thinking Democrats to go along with his plans, then he can just tell the Republicans what to do ("Vote for my bill!"), and exercise virtually total control over the government.

What? You say that Republicans only do what certain voices tell them to do? Well, how do they decide which voices to listen to without thinking for themselves?

Barack Obama is brilliant.