McConnell doesn’t need to be inspiring or jocular. Shouldn’t be, in fact. What he’s saying isn’t inspirational or funny. It’s grim and divisive. And that’s why it’s so important. In a city split between liars and idealists, McConnell is the rarest of all things: an honest cynic. Full Story »
Posted by Barry Grossheim
This is amusing journalism, and would have been great in the Onion. However as serious journalism, it is a failure. The author must be the last person in the country who thinks that Obama ever intended to be "post-partisan". The last Congress was the most left-wing in decades, and Obama and the leadership ignored the Republicans in passing major legislation like the stimulus, Obamacare and Dodd-Frank. All three are far-left patronage laws, with little that is conservative in them, despite the author's claims. The author seems to know little about Washington politics, as he does not even mention the people who ran the Congress for Obama, like Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi. Now, there are people who ARE divisive, partisan and continually dishonest in their treatment of the Republicans. So this piece is minimally researched and not much as serious journalism.
This sentence shows how poor a writer the author is: "The opposition can have its cake and eat it, too."