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>To bring it back to the subject at hand (bipartisianship).....
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>The problem with politicians on both sides of the aisle is that they cannot (or will not, which is even worse) recognize that there just might possibly, even if only by accident, maybe be a small morsel of good in the proposals made by the other side. The attitude is "Your stuff doesn't work we have to try mine" is a guarantee to provoke the kind of opposition that ensures that nothing of consequence happens. They just can't bring themselves to "Let's work together to make it better."
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>The zealots on both sides have taken control. Look at the arguments here. "Bush did this???? Yeah???? Well Clinton did that!!!!!" "Clinton did what????? Look at what Bush is doing!!!!!!!" It's funny when Hammie and Zoe are doing it in "Baby Blues." It's not funny when my own children did the same sort of thing when they were 6 and 7 years old. It's alarming when exceedingly intelligent people in online discussion forums are reduced to these kinds of arguements. But it's tragic to see the leaders of our country taking the same sort of positions.

SPOT ON