Analysis: Heated war of words over Iraq extinguishes last remnants of bipartisanship

[bemildred]

WASHINGTON – Those lofty promises of cooperation between the Bush White House and the newly Democratic Congress have been drowned out by acrid bursts of name-calling.

Amid open confrontation between President Bush and Congress over Iraq, the White House is branding Democrats defeatists and accusing them of pursuing a surrender strategy.

To Democrats, Vice President Dick Cheney is an “attack dog” and President Bush is guilty of more political abuses than Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal.

Such heated rhetoric is fouling Washington's already tense political atmosphere. It is undercutting the pledges for greater cooperation that both sides made shortly after Democrats' victories last November that put them back in control of the House and Senate.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070426-0025-byebyebipartisanship.html

[subterranean]

1. Who could have predicted this??

[bemildred]

2. Indeed, what a shock.

That bipartisan stuff didn't last long.