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Q Mr. Vice President, what has Senator Reid been like to work with?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Difficult. He's -- I'll leave it at that. He's difficult.
Q Are you surprised at how partisan he's become, I mean, given both his state and his past politics? He has -- quite frankly, his past views on foreign policy have been -- (inaudible) -- Are you surprised that he's become so stridently anti-war, saying not long ago that the war is lost --
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, I obviously -- I have major differences with him. When he announced the war was lost, he was clearly wrong. And I -- the man I respect most on the other side of the aisle -- that nobody would be surprised about -- is Joe Lieberman. I see Joe willing to take on the powers that be, if you will, in what used to be his party -- I guess he's not formally a Democrat these days, although he caucuses with them. But I think what happened to Joe Lieberman says a lot about the party; that he was, in effect, purged by the Democrats on this issue because he supported the President on the war on Iraq, and obviously, defeated in the Democratic primary, ran as an independent, and won the election. And he's a very independent sort these days, which he can afford to be.
Q You mentioned Murtha. Did you see his comments on the surge the other day? What did you make of it?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I thought Jack got it right when he came back and said the surge is working. I think it is. And I think anybody who will go over there and objectively look at that will, in fact, conclude that.
Q Mr. Vice President, now that the Democrats are the majority in both
chambers, do you need to spend more time there, or less time? Or what it's
like for you to go up there now, compared to before?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Going up to the Hill?
Q Yes, sir.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, it's interesting. I spent 10 years in the
House. There was a time in my ca
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