by Rich Galen
While waiting for the debt limit vote …
The entire near solar system is begging and pleading for Washington to exercise a concept known as "bipartisanship." By "bipartisan" they mean, of course "non-partisan" as in "without regard to political party."
The two-party system is mentioned nowhere in the U.S. Constitution, but there is absolutely nothing non-partisan about our form of government. In fact, I believe that if the Founding Fathers (there were no founding mothers, back in the day) had known how formalized -- maybe fossilized -- the two-party system was going to become, they would have found a way to force at least one of these three organizations: The U.S. House, the U.S. Senate or the Executive Branch to be in the control of a party different from the other two.
In Washington everything is divided between two parties -- it is muy-partisan. In the very Chambers of the U.S. House and Senate, members of the Republican Party sit separately from Democrats. That's where the phrase "other side of the aisle" comes from. Democrats sit on one side of the House or Senate floor, Republicans on the other with a central aisle between them.
3 comments:
spot on....good article
Didn't read the whole piece, but from what I saw from here he hits it on the head. You have idiots on both sides of the aisle who immediatly demonize all ideas from the other side and fail to even make any effort at vetting the ideas from their side.
Sorry but it's always the republicans who have to be bi partisan. When them dems had control they always gave in on the spending and look where iot has got us. If anyone should give in this time it should be the democrats. That is what the American people voted for this time. Fiscal conservatism, the dems don't want anything less than full control. It's time to stand our ground.
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