I will not be seeking election

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

In my press conference later today I will cite the corrosive atmosphere of bipartisanship that has crippled Washington.

The reason things didn't get done was not excessive partisanship.

With excessive partisanship we would have had a long series of 60-40 votes in the senate and jammed through all sorts of stuff.

But instead we had grid-lock.

Why? Why did we have grid-lock?

Because of Evan-fucking-Bayh and Lieberman, Nelson, Baucus, Lincoln, Landrieu... the whole rotten crew.

Their desire for bipartisanship was defended as political realism, but the political reality is that every single blue dog senator up for election is going to retire or lose. So their realism obviously didn't do squat... for anyone.

They could have swallowed their rigid and unrealistic personal ideology (you know... the kind of crack-pot ideology that drives those horrible leftists) to compromise for the common good. And since they would have only had to compromise with the party they caucus with you'd think that would be doable if one was so fricking concerned with "getting things done." But no, driven by the dictates of their campaign contributors strongly help beliefs they put ideology over pragmatism.

Bipartisanship is tearing this country apart.