Posted on 05/10/2012 6:45:39 AM PDT by Kaslin
Bump
There are no RINOs, Republicans, maybe with the exception of Reagan, have always been spineless Jellyfish. If anything it was Reagan that was the RINO.
In other countries it is called "coalition government". It is only entered into because no one party has a majority or because the country faces an existential threat such as a war.
In parliamentary systems, the government is "opposed" by the "opposition" which is basically opposed to everything the government is doing.
It was Obama’s election that ended bipartisanship.
Death of bipartisanship my ass. One less RINO, who caves to the dems, I’d call it a good start!
One could only hope, but I'm not holding my breath...
Me too.
They are there to represent their constituants and their state within the bounds of the constitution. When they lose sight of that, they enter the world of bending over for the libs albeit some of the recently enacted anti liberty and freedom laws bely the notion that it is only the dems who are “liberal”.
Maybe in that far off land where there are conservatives and moderates in both parties, compromise was possible but not today as one party is hard corps left with no internal decension allowed...the other is not quite as lefty and equally the leaders allow no division in their ranks. So, you are either hard corps left or “moderate”. What do you get when a moderate compromises with a hard corps lefty: a socialist.
Carlin had that nailed.
Re: Durbin’s comments on Lugar.
I am sure the good voters of Indiana are pleased as punch to have the senator from the people’s republic of Ill-Annoy criticize their choice.
If Kerry and Durbin are SO interested in bipartisanship, I am sure Sen. Mourdock will be happy to have them support his policies, and move his (Mourdock’s) bills forward in the Senate.
PJ Media is a good crew, so I will be gentle to the author.... but there is no such thing as ‘bipartisanship’. There is either go along with the socialists and Democrats (and you will be called bipartisan), or oppose the socialists and Democrats (and you will be called a reactionary right-winger Teabagger terrorist).
If what we have now is “bipartisanship”, then I want no more of it.
I would actually REJECT the premise that we currently have a Congress that acts with bipartisanship. We have one party whose stated goal is to continuously move this country toward MORE state-controlled dependency. And if other parties go in a different direction, they are deemed radical. I don’t believe that you can establish ANY bipartisanship when one side not only does not budge, but actively works to FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM this country.
When your party uses terms like “Fundamentally Transform”, who is the radical?
And while we are talking bipartisanship, the only time that word is used in Congress is when the Democrats do not have complete power. From 2007-2010, the Republicans were not just ignored, but they were actively LOCKED OUT of legislative discussions.
I don’t want bipartisanship, I want fist fights on the Senate floor, like in the Taiwanese Parliament.
Drag yerass Lugar. You're next Hatch, Snowe, Graham...
Thoroughly disingenuous as it ignores the fact that the Dems are purging all of their “moderates” as well (Jason Altmeyer here in Pennsylvania being a prime example)
The party that crammed Obamacare down our throats without a single Republican vote now pretends to be concerned about “bipartisanship”...
No, I don't think so.
The Obama is driving us toward a cliff, and Lugar was among the chorus saying “oh, you might want to slow down a little”. His constituents swapped him out for someone promising to grab the handbrake and yank hard.
Bi-Partisanship just means Republicans caving into the the demands of the Democrats. When was the last time you ever heard a Democrat getting praise for working with the Republicans? How about never.
The reason our country is in the sorry shape its in is due to 65 years of the Republicans engaging in Bi-Partisanship. Its way past time for that ship to sail.
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