BIPARTISANSHIP
Bipartisanship: I'll hug your elephant if you
kiss my ass.
Okay, old joke and amusing bumpersticker.
So why no bipartisanship of late?
It's the Democrats' fault. Yep. See, here's the thing: The party of No has, over time, mostly managed to purge any elected officials who might be inclined to be moderate, cooperative, thoughtful, or even sane, instead stocking their ranks with howling ideologues and cynical panderers who will do anything--and I mean anything--to slow, stop, damage, demean, or destroy our President. People die for lack of health care? Tough tittie. Losing their houses? Shrug at the thought.
But the Dems, dumb bastards that they are, have members that run the gamut from lefties to Blue Dogs so stone-head conservative they're Democrats in name only.
The Dems have to practice bipartisanship just to get along with each other-everything they manage to do an act of bipolar accommodation.
Not so long ago the Republicans were envisioning permanent majority domination of all branches of government. Which of course came to nothing, in the manner of most thousand year Reichs. But they're sore losers; their motto is we win or we won't play.
Winning may get harder as they veer further and further to the right, heading for a place where maybe they'll get the skinhead vote, and the Klan vote, and the Tim McVeigh fan club vote, but people who have some sense of kindness, fairness, mercy, social conscience, or pride in America as an inclusive place, and society as something other than a Darwinist garbage disposal operating only for the benefit of the rich, white and privileged will shudder and vote against them.
Want a good look at what you get when jobs and political offices are awarded on the basis of ideological purity and fervor instead of actual ability? Go visit sunny Iran. That's the future--theocracy and all--they're trying to bring about.
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Okay, old joke and amusing bumpersticker.
So why no bipartisanship of late?
It's the Democrats' fault. Yep. See, here's the thing: The party of No has, over time, mostly managed to purge any elected officials who might be inclined to be moderate, cooperative, thoughtful, or even sane, instead stocking their ranks with howling ideologues and cynical panderers who will do anything--and I mean anything--to slow, stop, damage, demean, or destroy our President. People die for lack of health care? Tough tittie. Losing their houses? Shrug at the thought.
But the Dems, dumb bastards that they are, have members that run the gamut from lefties to Blue Dogs so stone-head conservative they're Democrats in name only.
The Dems have to practice bipartisanship just to get along with each other-everything they manage to do an act of bipolar accommodation.
Not so long ago the Republicans were envisioning permanent majority domination of all branches of government. Which of course came to nothing, in the manner of most thousand year Reichs. But they're sore losers; their motto is we win or we won't play.
Winning may get harder as they veer further and further to the right, heading for a place where maybe they'll get the skinhead vote, and the Klan vote, and the Tim McVeigh fan club vote, but people who have some sense of kindness, fairness, mercy, social conscience, or pride in America as an inclusive place, and society as something other than a Darwinist garbage disposal operating only for the benefit of the rich, white and privileged will shudder and vote against them.
Want a good look at what you get when jobs and political offices are awarded on the basis of ideological purity and fervor instead of actual ability? Go visit sunny Iran. That's the future--theocracy and all--they're trying to bring about.
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