Forget parsing and second-guessing the President’s words and intentions over reaching across the partisan aisle. If you want to know what the next two years are going to look like, read/watch the NewsHour’s rountable discussion on the chances of bipartisanship. The panelists were unable to assess the likelihood or virtues of bipartisan cooperation without quickly devolving into a knock-down, drag-down performance of the very thing they were supposed to comment on. That, even with only one liberal voice out of five, the mild-mannered Harold Meyerson. Money quote from Linda Chavez: “Well, first of all, I think bipartisanship is overrated. Bipartisanship usually means Republicans reaching out to Democrats. I think the reaching out that needs to be done is [by] the Democrats…”
No, partisan cooperation isn’t coming anytime soon.
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