Bipartisanship' is a dirty word for Senate Republicans

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Bipartisanship' is a dirty word for Senate Republicans

Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large

Updated 6:31 PM ET, Fri May 7, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/07/politics/bipartisanship-republicans-democrats/index.html

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(CNN)There was a time when the most liberal Republican in the Senate was to the ideological left of the chamber's most conservative Democrat.

This is not that time. And, judging from the latest bipartisan rankings from CQ Roll Call, we aren't going back there -- for a very long time.

The bipartisan scores, based on how often members of Congress voted with or against their party's majority in 2020, reveal, well, very little bipartisanship.

That dearth is particularly noticeable among Senate Republicans, where the most bipartisan senator (meaning the highest percentage of votes against the party's majority) is Maine's Susan Collins, who voted against the GOP majority 21.6% of the time last year.  

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[mitch96]

1. tRumplicans....... the party of "NO"........nt

[JHB]

2. This has been true to a very long time

I remember articles back in 2007 that pointed to the Republican Senate's Soviet Politburo-level lockstep and warned of them blocking the initiatives of a Democrat winning the 2008 election, which is precisely what they did.