About that "bi-partisanship" of Joe Lieberman

[Norquist Nemesis]

A troubling aspect of Senator Lieberman's political acumen are his claims about the ability to reach across the aisle in a bi-partisan way. It's painfully evident that he is blind to the game of his Rove-led friends on the Republican side: The Zero Sum Game.

Spearheaded by Newt Gingrich and cultivated under the guidance of Karl Rove, Republicans have learned that a Heads We Win, Tails You Lose gets them elected. And while Senator Lieberman decries Democrats for partisan attacks, he seems completely oblivious to the insidious tactics of Republicans. In fact, he has embraced them in word and deed.

Standing on principle is an honorable thing. No one disagrees with that. But Senator Lieberman has not made a choice to stand alone on principle. He's chosen to happily stand with elected Republicans while condemning Democratic Party rank and file...loudly and repeatedly.

Senator Lieberman needs to stop flipping the two-sided GOP coin.

[KurtNYC]

1. Bi-partisan has come to mean "submission to the Prez"

and as an Indenendent, Joe will perhaps now champion "tri-partisan" efforts.

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. It's come to mean supplying the ink for the rubber stamp.

LOL@ "tri-partisan"

[Bake]

3. Every single Puke is partisan to the max!

I believe it was a Puke (either Rove or Norquist, perhaps) who defnied bipartisanship as something akin to date rape. Being partisan is not a bad thing if it's done on principle -- hell, it's a GOOD THING. Any Puke will tell you that.

For Joe, being bipartisan just means bending over for BushCo. And I hope to God that won't sell, come November.

Bake

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. That's the GOPs two-sided coin

and Joe keeps flipping it.

[MurrayDelph]

4. Didn't Karl Rove call it "Date Rape"?

To my eyes, Republicans see bi-partisanship as
"You do it our way, and we will blame you when it doesn't work."

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. Nope, it was Grover

(toward bottom of page) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Grover_Norquist

"John Aloysius Farrell, "Rancor becomes top D.C. export: GOP leads charge in ideological war (http://tanque.org/peptide/norquist.html)," Denver Post, May 26, 2003: "'We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship,' said Grover Norquist, a leading Republican strategist, who heads a group called Americans for Tax Reform.... 'Bipartisanship is another name for date rape,' Norquist, a onetime adviser to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, said, citing an axiom of House conservatives.... These days, Norquist and other conservative activists use the GOP tilt in the legislatures to make life difficult for Democratic members of Congress. On issue after issue - the war on terror, taxes, judicial appointees - Republican leaders in Washington have been getting GOP-controlled legislatures to go on record in support of Bush initiatives. It makes it more difficult for Democrats to explain unpopular votes back home."

[MurrayDelph]

7. I stand corrected

(now only if my typing did)

Thank you. I hate being wrong (but I hate STAYING wrong more)