Is Washington finally ready to do business?

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, majority leader in waiting, was all smiles in his first news conference since his election victory, saying Republicans do not want a fight.

“I’m pretty familiar with our conference, including the new members who are coming in,” said McConnell. “The vast majority of them don’t feel they were sent to Washington to fight all the time.”

An hour later, the President held his first post-election news conference, which went something like this question from a reporter, “What do you make of the notion that you’re not a laying duck?”

But Obama was having none of it!

The President said he got the message that Americans are unhappy, but said he’s always been open to new ideas and saw nothing to be contrite about.

“Maybe I just getting older. I don’t know. It doesn’t make me mopey. It energizes me.”

It energizes him so much that he is planning, with a stroke of his pen, to make millions of undocumented immigrants legal -at least for now – by executive order.

McConnell says don’t do it, “The President choosing to do a lot of thing unilaterally on immigration would be a big mistake. It’s like waving a red flag in front of a bull.”

To which the President replied, “I’ve heard that argument for a couple of years. But I think that the best way, if the folks are serious about getting immigration reform done, is passing the bill.”

So, message received but, if you were hoping for a lame duck, sounds like it’s game on.