Reply #34: There is no question there is a struggle for power and identity

[CWebster]

One perspective triangulates rather than formulating opposition, and the Republicans, if you haven't noticed, have come to expect that behavior. When Democrats don't fall in line and goosestep behind the Republicans, they are called to task for being partisan.

The other perspective is interested in exposing the truth.

The Republicans spend half their time complaining that the record should not be used as evidence, and the rest of the time scolding and bullying Democrats.

The breach is between Lieberman and Byrd. Clinton's strategy may have been slick in it's day, and it threw the Republicans momentarily off guard, but the blowback is the Right, in turn, now triangulates from an even more extreme position.

Who needs proof of this? Isn't it clear enough with the positions individual Democrats represent? Some "Democrats" echo and reinforce Bush, others oppose it.

It is right in front of our eyes.

The partisanship, on these boards, comes from those who throw their allegiance behind any "D" designation regardless of the views the "Democrat" holds.