- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Wouldn't "bipartisanship" mean that at least sometimes, the Democrats get what they want and the Republicans help them get it? Can you point me to even a single instance of that actually happening?
I think that if Democrats support X enough times, then the only reasonable conclusion one can reach is that they support X because that is what they want.
I used to subscribe to the idea that Democratic Congressional leaders wished that they could oppose Bush policies but didn't out of fear. By and large -- with some exceptions -- I don't think that's true. I think they failed to oppose Bush policies because they support those policies.
Either way, when the two parties support the same positions and act in harmony, that is the very definition of "bipartisanship," regardless of what is motivating it.
