Do you think that the Dems will go to far with the bipartansianship...

[butterfly77]

So far they have let Foley get away with, his sex capades, they have went along with some repugs about passing a bill for them to receive compensation when it hasn't been done before (it didn't pass as far as I know) this was on Friday night on c-span. They say they won't go for impeachment so what else will they let the repugs get away with...

[Mythsaje]

1. If we don't hold their feet to the fire

I'm damned scared they're going to get away with America.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2891200&mesg_id=2891200

[butterfly77]

2. I believe that the repugs ...

are setting up traps for them everywhere so that they will look just as bad as them for the next election and as usual they will fall into the traps trying to be bipartisian.

[Mythsaje]

4. They need to stop playing nice...

"Nice guys" finish last.

[butterfly77]

6. I think that we should fill their mailboxes to overflowing ....

[Vidar]

3. If they kill ass often enough, their backs retain that position.

[bowens43]

5. No. I don't think so.

I think this is a long range plan , much like the 50 state plan. I think this about 2008. If they can show themselves to be bi-partisan to some extent, at least more so than the republicans , we will see another sweep of Congressional seats, both in the house and the senate as well as the presidency in 2008. In order to accomplish the big goals, we need this.

[butterfly77]

8. I have thought that this is part of a plan...

but they may take it a little to far...I am hoping they are planning right now, there is no way that they could forget what this country has been through for the past sic years...

[Tyo]

7. Bipartisanship?

I see no reason for any more bipartisanship then we've had for the past few years. The Republicans seem happy with that level of joint cooperation and I'm sure that we can live with it.

[pat_k]

9. Time to Get Real. "Bipartisanship" in Bush World is Lunacy.

It is the nation's outrage at what Bush has done to our country that drove Democrats to victory on Nov. 7th.

As a general proposition, Americans want the ideal of a bipartisan Congress in which reasonable people on "both sides" work together to find reasonable solutions. But on Nov. 7th, the voice of the people declared that the most essential ingredient of that ideal -- reasonable people on "both sides" -- doesn't exist in Bush World.

When they rejected Bush, his administration, and his rubber stamp Congress as intolerably incompetent/corrupt/extreme they were not calling for "bipartisanship" with Bush at the helm.

Their message was loud and clear: "We want out of Bush-World!"

Apparently DC Dems didn't get the message that was delivered. If they had, they'd be implementing strategies that tap into the power of the outrage that drove the "wave," instead of doing their best to suppress it.

The "conventional wisdom" and exhortations we've heard since the election -- "impeachment is off limits," "it's about issues, issues, issues," "suppress anger," "don't overreach," etc. -- aren't new. We heard them last month. We heard them last year. We have been hearing similar admonitions to be "pragmatic" and "tactical" or to "keep our powder dry" for decades because such admonitions are grounded in assumptions and patterns of thought that have resisted change for decades.

[More Than A Feeling]

10. The Republican Dictionary: Bipartisanship=deference

A conservative value if ever there was one. No thanks.