As has been said on this blog many, many, many times, you can’t spell bi-partisan without the letters “B. S..” It’s just a word that the media uses to guilt Republican’s into bending over and doing whatever the Democrat Party tells them to.
And as the Sen. Specter and Sen. Collins will soon learn, all their new media friends won’t be talking aboot “bi-partisanship” once they have Democrat challengers next year.
That brings us to President Obama, who as we all know, is mad bi-partisan. I mean, he through a party for John McCain and invited a few Republicans over for cocktails. What more can we expect of the man? In 2006, back when he was Senator, Obama had this to say aboot bi-partisanship…
“Genuine bipartisanship,” he wrote, “assumes an honest process of give-and-take, and that the quality of the compromise is measured by how well it serves some agreed-upon goal, whether better schools or lower deficits. This in turn assumes that the majority will be constrained — by an exacting press corps and ultimately an informed electorate — to negotiate in good faith.
“If these conditions do not hold — if nobody outside Washington is really paying attention to the substance of the bill, if the true costs . . . are buried in phony accounting and understated by a trillion dollars or so — the majority party can begin every negotiation by asking for 100% of what it wants, go on to concede 10%, and then accuse any member of the minority party who fails to support this ‘compromise’ of being ‘obstructionist.’
“For the minority party in such circumstances, ‘bipartisanship’ comes to mean getting chronically steamrolled, although individual senators may enjoy certain political rewards by consistently going along with the majority and hence gaining a reputation for being ‘moderate’ or ‘centrist.’”
Sounds a lot like the debate, or “debate,” over the crap sandwich, no? Anyhow, compare that to how President Obama views bi-partisanship in 2008.
“I won.”
Meet the new bi-partisanship, same as the old bi-partisanship.
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John, its going to be an UGLY two years, and who knows how long it will take to pick up the pieces.