Poll: Bipartisanship popular, compromise tricky

[cal04]

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2010/02/americans_spread_the_blame_whe.html?hpid=topnews

Americans spread the blame when it comes to the lack of cooperation in Washington, and, in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, most want the two sides to keep working to pass comprehensive health-care reform.

Nearly six in 10 in the new poll say the Republicans aren't doing enough to forge compromise with President Obama on important issues; more than four in 10 see Obama as doing too little to get GOP support. Among independents, 56 percent see the Republicans in Congress as too unbending and 50 percent say so of the president; 28 percent of independents say both sides are doing too little to find agreement.


POLLING BIPARTISANSHIP
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/02/09/2198471.aspx

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From the Post article: "Among independents, 56 percent see the Republicans in Congress as too unbending and 50 percent say so of the president; 28 percent of independents say both sides are doing too little to find agreement."

[abq e streeter]

1. more that 4 in 10 say Obama's doing TOO LITTLE??? on trying to work with repubs

no words; I'm just fuckin' speechless. Idiots; my country is rampant with fucking idiots.

[DFLforever]

2. So now you see what the Pres is up against

and why he burdens himself with the cross of bipartisanship.

[abq e streeter]

3. I know very well the idiocy and ignorance we're all up against

and that is why we need to NOT pander to ignorance and instead, stand up strongly for our values, and not go the "bi-partisanship" route, since the other side is so blatantly a group of people that can not be worked with or made to compromise one inch. Bi-partisanship means giving in to the republicans.Period. That is a doomed to fail policy.