"really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane"

[ProSense]

The year in bipartisanship

by Dante Atkins

John Cole, a little more than a year ago:

I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

Not, of course, that this lesson has been heeded lately by an entire swath of legislators who put the bipartisanship fetish on a pedestal higher than the combined interests of a) getting good legislation passed, and b) their own electoral chances.

But hey, at least we have Rachel Maddow calling them out for taking credit for recommending the pasta. Aren't we all just dying to find out where we'll be a year from now?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Bipartinsaneship? n/t

[dave29]

6. nice

:)

[Clio the Leo]

2. It doesn't have to work ....

.... we just have to look good doing it.

[paulk]

3. Obama should read this

[ProSense]

4. Obama is doing exactly what he needs to do:

give Republicans rope.

[paulk]

5. you really believe that, don't you?

along with the multi-dimensional chess...

we needed a partisan President, not Obama's brand of hold hands and sing kumbaya leadership

there's still time for him to figure it out

I "hope"