Don't Act Surprised
Here's a piece in Slate about how "the administration has all but given up even the pretense of bipartisanship." This was predictable. They don't agree with the Republicans and have a big enough lead in Congress that they don't need to pay them any attention.
The only question, as the article notes, is will they pay a price for their partisanship. The answer, as always, is it's not about politics, it's about results. If big things like the economy and our foreign policy are doing okay, it doesn't matter how they got there. If not, they'll have to try Plan B, and blame to other side for their lack of partisanship.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:02 AM
5 Comments:
Bipartisanship is a fool's game. what Obama was elected for was "post-partisanship" (I would say "non-partisanship" but that word has come to mean "non-controversial or meaningless") or new coalitions where the partisanship is not an issue
He was not elected for post-partisanship or any consideration of partisanship. He was elected to solve a set of problems, though different voters thought he might do it through different means. Regardless, if he solves the problems, he's fine. If he doesn't, he's in trouble. The main thing he promised is he'd try something different, which was an obvious bit of nonsense that no rational person would hold him to.
Bipartisanship is a fools game. George Bush tried it harder than anyone else, and look what it got him.
Exactly what I said- he was elected to solve problems independent of partisanship-- i.e. intense partisanship was largely believed the reasons for most of the problems
I guess what I'm saying is people didn't really blame partisanship. Or perhaps I'm saying the word is so vague it means nothing anyway, since most people who talk about getting beyond it don't really want compromise, they want everyone to agree with them.
While partisanship is a useful whipping boy, I'm guess you still got a majority (if you combine them) of people on the left and right who think they're way is best. It's those middle people who get to decide, however,
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