- Scott Miller
Is is just me, or does anyone else want to jam a fork in their eye everytime some moron reporter or politician pulls out the word “bipartisan” like it’s the holy grail of American politics?
John McCain is one of the worst offenders of trying to make bipartisanship into some sort of virtue. This from Reuters:
McCain says Obama needs to work on bipartisanship
Obama initially hoped for an overwhelming majority for passage of the stimulus bill, but the debate quickly dissolved into the traditional argument in which Democrats backed a package more weighted to spending programs and Republicans advocated tax cuts.
Acknowledging scaled-down ambitions for the vote, Obama on Thursday said “I hope they act in a bipartisan fashion, but no matter how they act,” the legislation should help the economy.
The stimulus bill ultimately passed the House of Representatives with no Republican support. It was expected to garner the votes of three Republican moderates in the Senate.
“No one could view this as having a scintilla of bipartisanship,” said McCain, who has often annoyed his own Republican colleagues by working with the opposition party.
“The message of the election was, sit down and work together. They obviously are not doing that,” he said.
So here’s what I find so illogical about the whole concept of “bipartisanship”… what the hell is the point of having two parties if the goal is to always strive for bipartisanship? The whole damn point of having a two party political system is to have each battle the other in the arena of ideas… with the best party winning the day, and the election.
The whole concept of bipartisanship is just another politically correct feel good idea… one that has widespread support in the unthinking class, but makes about as much sense as a Kennedy.
