The new D.C.: Same as it ever was

So much for post-partisanship.

Not a single House Republican crossed the aisle to vote for the stimulus package, and just three GOP senators made the leap. Last week, Speaker Nancy Pelosi brushed off calls for a bipartisan consensus as mere “process,” hardly relevant to the passage of the $800 billion-plus plan.

Democrats are carpet-bombing the districts of vulnerable Republicans with negative ads. At noon Wednesday, Republican ... Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Feb. 12, 2009

A don't-bother piece of so-what journalism. Polarization is remain a strong part of government as long as the only Republicans left are radical right-wingers for whom polarization is a way of life. Long ago they threw moderates out of the party with "either you're with us or against us."

Forget bipartisanship. It’s a waste of Democrats’ time. Republicans consider Democrats who practice it weak and ineffectual. Republicans have proven themselves utterly incompetent at governance but flawless experts at obfuscation, distortions, deceit, and impediment.

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