Obama, They Want You to Fail

[babsbunny]

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/062809.html

By Robert Parry
June 29, 2009

After last year’s elections, a Democratic operative told me that if the Democrats got to 59 seats in the Senate, it would be easy to peel off one or two Republicans to pass key legislation like serious health care reform. I was left wondering what political planet he'd been living on for the past three decades.

For almost as long as I’ve been in Washington (I arrived for the Associated Press in 1977) it has worked the other way. Even when the Republicans appear to be on the defensive and outnumbered, they band together and vote as a bloc, while Democrats bend over backwards to be “bipartisan.”

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. It's the Dems bending over forward that's the problem.

Bipartisanship huh?

Not with these bastards.

[elocs]

2. Yes, way worry about bipartisanship when you can't get support from your own party. n/t