Now this is the right attitude.

This is an excerpt from an interview with Sen Pat Toomey, Republican from Pennsylvania:

“I introduced a bill with Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, she’s a Democrat. She’s up for reelection. She’s considered one of the more vulnerable, incumbent Democrats. She and I happen to agree that we ought to eliminate earmarks, for a variety of reasons. We disagree on a lot of things but we agree on that. So, we introduced a bill together and we did a press conference and we’re going to try to get this thing passed. I had a colleague, who stood up in a private meeting, and criticized me for working with a vulnerable, incumbent Democrat. ‘Why would you do a thing like that, you’re boosting her chances of being reelected.’ Well, I couldn’t disagree with that attitude more. I am absolutely not going to refuse to work with a Democrat because they’re in cycle. Anybody that wants to work together and accomplish something for our constituents, I don’t care who they are and if they’re up for reelection or not. And the fact that this attitude exists though, is a source of enormous frustration for people all across the country, for sure.”