If someone calls for an end to "partisanship", and the call goes to Dems as well as repubs . . . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . can we all acknowledge that such calls would be the height of hypocritical nonsense?

One of the reasons the current Democratic leadership, both in the Congress and in the White House, is seeing a disenchanted "base" is the futility of their attempts to be bipartisan. That is not to say that bipartisanship, per se, is bad. It *is* to say that starting out trying to placate the right wing and then giving them more and more only to have them ultimately allow you to have nothing is a bad strategy. And now we hear that a group of former congressmen are calling on BOTH parties to be more bipartisan?????

Now would be a great time for the Dems to come out STRONGLY on the GOP tactic of playing Lucy to our erstwhile Charlie Brown.

[leftstreet]

1. The Republican party was dead after 2008. Yet the Dems 'reached out' to them

:grr:

[elleng]

2. I LOVE LUCY!

(sometimes, more or less, well, ya know!)

[Deep13]

3. I voted for partisanship.

I voted D. because the Ds were mostly right while the Rs were entirely wrong. I don't want to compromise with "wrong."

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Whether or not you agree with Obama and the Dems' attempts to be "bipartisan" after 2008

it's dishonest IMHO for anybody to suggest that they didn't bend over backwards (and frontwards and sidewards, etc.) to try to work with the Republicans (who after all do represent at least some Americans) to do what people supposedly sent them to Washington DC do, which is to come together to debate and come up with solutions to complex national problems. Usual "fair and balanced" approach. :eyes: Sometimes, one side IS working harder and trying to do the right thing more than the other side.

[Stinky The Clown]

5. That's correct. The point of the OP is these former pols who are saying both sides need to do it

As if the Dems never were.

The point is that the problem is *entirely* with the repubs.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Right

Who is saying this, anyway? :shrug: Whoever is saying this obviously hasn't been paying much attention to national politics since, oh, say, 1995 onward. :banghead: Democrats could've REALLY been major a-holes towards Bush after the 2000 (s)election but despite everything that had happened, they STILL tried to work with him and the Republicans, particularly after 9/11 happened and look what they did to us in return (i.e. 2002 Max Cleland/Saxby Chambliss Senate Race, Paul Wellstone Memorial smear, John Kerry-Swift Boat Veterans). It's enough to make you want to :puke:

[spanone]

6. bipartisanship is not a one-way gesture as it has been for two years