Such bipartisanship will do something to burnish his reputation as a reformer.
The stimulus deal was an unusual display of bipartisanship in Washington, with Democrats and Republicans in the House making concessions to get the deal done quickly.
And for all the talk of bipartisanship and Mr Obama's courting of religious voters during his campaign, their voting patterns did not change much at all, so he owes them little.
In the event, Mr Obama appeared to make some progress on bipartisanship.
He talked endlessly about bipartisanship and national unity. He was also a living symbol of racial reconciliation.
This is why Obama is right to value bipartisanship, even if he doesn't manage to win a single Republican vote - and even if he doesn't need any to enact his legislative program.
Mr Bush may even be able to extend this fashion for bipartisanship to foreign leaders.
In a rare show of legislative bipartisanship, the free trade pacts got near-unanimous Republican backing and enough Democratic support to assure easy passage in both houses.
America has a tradition of bipartisanship in foreign policy.
Obama made the stimulus a cornerstone of his economic recovery plan even before he took office, but his calls for bipartisanship were an early casualty.
Yet Mr McConnell's call for bipartisanship is not a total sham.
With such a man let loose in the Senate, there was no hope of bipartisanship.
But that was when the ideologies of the parties overlapped in the middle and made bipartisanship easier.
It's conventional wisdom that bipartisanship results in improved public policy.
I love the idea of bipartisanship.
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