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.

[tekisui]

1. You are so right. Bipartisanship is a pipe-dream that

hurts us all. Fucking weak-kneed Dems bending over and not getting shit done.

[ChiciB1]

3. I Agree And Feel It's TIME For WASHINGTON To Wake Up And Smell The

coffee, BEFORE this country erupts and falls apart! I'm not only mad, but disgusted beyond what I ever thought I could be!

So many here have been TRYING to get a message to so many up there, but they seem NOT TO CARE! So while many are leaving, many of us actually won't miss what many of them have been doing!

TYT said it best recently... to those of you who seek a life in politics... get out there and run! We NEED new blood that will "try" not to get bungled up with the "bought & paid" for idiots whose job was to LEAD, NOT LET US DOWN!!

Enough for now, I'm just too irritated today to go on and on!

TIME FOR THEM TO WAKE UP!! NOW!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

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[jaxx]

2. Bipartisan isn't tearing this country apart,

but the radical rightwing is. In herding together to vote NO to nearly every bill they are, in effect, refusing to do the people's business. Bipartisanship has worked for all this time, until Barack Obama was elected. Face it, the wingers can't stand him living in the White House.

[cameozalaznick]

5. bipartisanship to the other side means that they get their way. NT

[polichick]

6. k&r

[grantcart]

7. Great what am I supposed to do with 10,000 Kurt_and_Hunter buttons?