Bipartisan Zombies - GREAT READ!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

Sunday, December 30, 2007


Bipartisan Zombies

by digby


It was inevitable. I wrote about it right after the 2006 election --- as soon as the Republicans lost power, I knew the gasbags would insist that it's time to let bygones be bygones and meet the Republicans halfway in the spirit of a new beginning. GOP politicians have driven the debt sky-high and altered the government so as to be nearly unrecognizable, so logically the Democrats need to extend the hand of conciliation and move to meet them in the middle --- the middle now being so far right, it isn't even fully visible anymore.

Today we have none other than the centrist drivel king, David Broder, reporting that a group of useless meddlers, most of whom who were last seen repeatedly stabbing Bill Clinton in the back, are rising from their crypts to demand that the candidates all promise to appoint a "unity" government and govern from the the center --- or else they will back an independent Bloomberg bid.

Boren said the meeting is being announced in advance of Thursday's Iowa caucuses "because we don't want anyone to think this was a response to any particular candidate or candidates." He said the nation needs a "government of national unity" to overcome its partisan divisions in a time of national challenge he likened to that faced by Great Britain during World War II.

"Electing a president based solely on the platform or promises of one party is not adequate for this time," Boren said. "Until you end the polarization and have bipartisanship, nothing else matters, because one party simply will block the other from acting."



Except the one party is called the Republican Party. When was the last time the Democrats blocked anything?

more . . . http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/bipartisan-zombies-by-digby-it-was.html

[OHdem10]

1. Dontcha' just love Conservative Democrats.

Please tell Boren to get busy and work on that Ostructionist
GOP Congress.

The Division is in Congress . Had the GOP not enabled Bush
to go far right and they in Congress ruled from the Right
the country would not be so divided.

Boren and Company cannot even identify the problem. They
wish to add to it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. I love this quote:

I like to remind people who long for bipartisanship that FDR's drive to create Social Security was as divisive as Bush's attempt to dismantle it. And we got Social Security because FDR wasn't afraid of division. In his great Madison Square Garden speech, he declared of the forces of "organized money": "Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred."