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Bipartisan Soil?

By Robert Stacy McCain on 11.9.08 @ 11:03PM

James Rainey, media writer for the Los Angeles Times, accuses Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and unnamed others of being "intent on poisoning the soil before bipartisanship can take root."

One may peruse an online catalog of Mr. Rainey's recent writings to see what contributions he has made to bipartisanship lately, and a quick perusal indicates these consist chiefly of cheerleading for the Democratic campaign and mocking the Republicans.

Given that his specialty is media and not government, Rainey may not fully realize that after Jan. 20, Republicans will have virtually no ability to obstruct Obama, Reid and Pelosi in their policies, and little ability even to influence the debate. This, of course, is exactly the sort of soil in which Mr. Rainey's brand of "bipartisanship" thrives. We shall see what fruits are produced, and we will be certain who is responsible.

Mr. Rainey will no longer be able to blame every sundry nuisance in the world on Republican malice, and he will have to find some new scapegoat onto which to project his numerous hatreds. This should provide an interesting spectacle, and Mr. Rainey's writing will doubtless become an even richer source of amusement to Mr. Limbaugh and his 20 million listeners during the Obama era.

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Spicy Joker| 11.10.08 @ 12:03AM

"Bipartisanship" to liberals means Republicans must support the Democrats' agenda.

J David| 11.10.08 @ 7:30AM

"Bi-partisan" is just a more tactful term for OLIGARCHY under which the craven, soulless, pragmatic surrender monkeys of the Gay Old Party have placed us.

Wave "bye-bye" to the GOP! Wave "bye-bye" to the Republic...

J. Peter Freire| 11.10.08 @ 8:31AM

1.) As if those listening to Rush are the types eager to embrace bipartisanship for bipartisanship's sake anyway.

2.) Obama's campaign has repeated that he's bipartisan, that he has worked on both sides of the aisle. He really hasn't, but at least we know that their metric for measuring bipartisanship is whether you can look a Republican in the eye.

Thomas| 11.10.08 @ 11:26AM

I apologize, in advance, for the cross post.
There is a faction in this country that hates and fears freedom. It hates and fears diversity. It hates and fears self-reliance. It hates and fears the common man. And it is not the Conservative movement nor the Republican Party. It is the liberal elite and its stooges in the Democrat Party.

The Democrats have done everything in their power, since the early 1900's to restrict the liberty of Americans. They are the party of taxation, as a method of controlling the populous [that, incidentally, led to the American revolution]. The party of social welfare [another means of controlling the populous]. In fact, since 1900, the Democrat party has not put forward a single measure that would limit the intrusion of the government into the life of the individual American citizen, except abortion. When the liberal elite can not get their own way, they resort to ad homenim attacks and character assassination on their opponents.

Bipartisanship has become a one-way street in this country. It runs only from the right to the left, never the reverse. Liberal and democrat ideas of bipartisan ship are simply the Republicans going along with whatever the Democrats propose. It is time that came to a stop. Or get comfortable with a continuation of the Go Along-Get Along mentality among Republicans.