Seems to me the language of politics has become so loaded that bipartisanship, which is vital under the US system if you want to get stuff done, seems to have less value than jousting.
FWIW:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRkmK_5LHrE;-)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
