Finally! President Obama ready to abandon unrealistic goal of bipartisanship on health care reform
Posted by AzblueMeanie:Bipartisanship is healthy to create broad public support for policy decisions. But bipartisanship requires the "loyal opposition" to work in good faith with the majority party to produce such bipartisan policy. The United States has a long and storied history of such bipartisan cooperation.But in this era of hyper-partisanship made possible by cable TV, talk radio and the internet, the Republicans in Congress have elected to become the "disloyal opposition." Republicans ar