The opposition suggests that he would accept a tax increase in exchange for measures to cut public spending.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to forge "bipartisan solutions" to the economic problems of the country, and hinted that the opposition would agree to raise taxes in exchange for spending cuts to avert the threat of " tax precipice. "
After winning a landslide victory at the polls, Obama called major Democratic and Republican leaders in both houses of Congress and asked them to put the interests "of the people and the economy" of the United States ahead of the "partisan".
In reviewing the agenda for the remainder of 2012, Obama reiterated his commitment to "find bipartisan solutions to reducing our deficit in a balanced way, tax cuts for middle class families and small businesses, and create jobs," said White House.
But, before a divided Congress, most experts predicted to continue fighting and political paralysis in Washington.
The "tax cliff"
The so-called "tax cliff" consists, first, in the year-end expiration of certain unemployment benefits and tax cuts of the George W. Bush and payroll taxes.
On the other, it also means automatic cuts of up to 800,000 million dollars from next January in government spending, including the Pentagon, and the possibility of an alternative tax, and higher, to about 26 million middle-class households.
During a press conference, which took no questions, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, hinted that his party would weigh a tax increase in exchange for Obama "is willing to cut spending" and reforming social welfare programs, "which are the main vectors of our debt."
"Let's find the common ground that we avoided," Boehner said in a conciliatory tone, and suggested that Congress could begin to agree a deal in the short legislative session before year end.
Earlier, also the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid, urged Congress to take action to prevent "tax cliff", and considered that, despite the objections of Republicans, these should include a tax increase " for the richest of the rich. "
Experts have warned that without an agreed solution to reduce the deficit, the country could fall into a new recession.
Little support for opposition
Despite the call for unity that Obama has done, few expect the opposition agreed to help with solutions to issues like deficit reduction, the level of debt or tax reform.
Still pending some races in states like Florida, for the incoming 113th legislative session Republicans retain control of the House, but Democrats won some victories scratch.
For now, the results point to 233 seats to the Republicans (formerly 241) and 193 for Democrats (formerly 194), with 10 seats still unallocated.
In the Senate, Democrats are expected to increase its seats to 53 (formerly 51) to 45 for the Republicans (formerly 47), which on Tuesday saw its chances evaporate recover the Senate. In the Senate will remain two independent members.
Predictably, will remain intact health reform of 2010, the major political victory for Obama and will come into full force in 2014.
John Fortier, director of Project Democracy Bipartisan Policy Center, predicted a scenario which may continue, as in the last two years, "shocks on budgets, the debt ceiling, and other deadlines."
On Tuesday night, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, showed a less conciliatory than Boehner, saying that "voters have not supported the failures and excesses of the first term of the president."
The defeat of the binomial Romney-Ryan at the polls will force the GOP to adjust their electoral strategies, in a country with a growing ethnic and cultural diversity, but also increasingly divided on ideological lines, according to Republican strategists like Ed Rogers.
The Republican Party, still dominated by white men and older will have to consider how to respond to the new political realities, Rogers said the public radio station NPR.
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