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• Friday, January 19, 2007 03:39 PM

  We need more partisanship not less

  That the Republicans are crying out for bipartisanship is, as Conason points out, entirely predictable. What is so disturbing is how average working Americans fall for it. The conservatives have had their way for twelve plus years now and we can all see the results, a foreign policy completely out of step with reality and domestic policies that favor the wealthy.

  Ronald Reagan was famous for saying “Government is not the solution to our problems. Government is the problem.” So in other words, according to Reagan (and those who followed), our grand experiment in democracy, government of the people, by the people, and for the people is a complete failure. Bush and the neocons have taken this attitude to its logical conclusion, as evidenced by this administration’s handling of Katrina. To these people, government is nothing more than a tool to increase their wealth. So the question is; how do you compromise with such people? Where is the middle ground that the pundits and the moderates are so desperate to find?

  Conason correctly points out that there are very real differences between Democrats and Republicans but it’s the similarities that prove to be more important. Each party gets its money from the same place. Each party is beholden to the same people. The fact of the matter is we need more partisanship not less.

  —paulw Read paulw's other letters
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