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Bipartisanship

Nothing Happens in Washington -- Except For This

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.24.2013 | Politics
Jim Wallis

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a new comprehensive immigration reform bill with a bipartisan vote. It isn't perfect, but the key elements that many of us have been fighting for are intact. That really is a triumph of the common good.

The Right Stuff

Richard C. Leone | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Richard C. Leone

Underlying the sharp divisions over fundamental questions is the widening fissure between the two parties. It's fashionable to describe this development as the result of a more or less symmetrical shift -- with Democrats moving to the left while Republicans move to the right. That conclusion is just plain wrong.

No Labels? A New Force in Congress?

Frank A. Weil | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Frank A. Weil

So what is No Labels foreshadowing? Perhaps in this era of the breakdown of effective party leadership and process a new 'thing' is emerging to take up the banner and slack in looking after the public interest.

Gunning for Senate Reform

Rek LeCounte | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics
Rek LeCounte

That this travesty of process is a resounding failure on all sides is a burden we all bear with appropriate shame. But the way forward is not through escalating antagonism -- if further escalation is even possible at this point.

Bipartisanship Breaks Out On Capitol Hill

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — A filibuster averted. A likely accord on immigration reform. A former Republican presidential candidate thanked – publicly! &...

Obama's Blueprint for Victory

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 04.10.2013 | Politics
Sanjay Sanghoee

Obama is prepared to lose a few battles in order to win the war. That is not being weak or a turncoat. It is being pragmatic and smart. It is also being presidential.

Tomorrow's Presidential Budget: Questions of Judgment?

David Coates | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
David Coates

We are told that Obama's budget will trade "modest entitlement savings" for immediate tax hikes on the corporate rich. If that is so, the trade that will be proposed tomorrow will reflect poor judgment -- poor moral judgment, poor economic judgment and poor political judgment.

If You Can't Stand the Heat: Why Washington Is Stuck on Climate Change (Part 1)

Keith Gaby | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics
Keith Gaby

It may be hard to pass climate change legislation by working with conservatives, but it will be nearly impossible to do so without them. That leaves us two choices: act without Congress, or move towards an approach that can get widespread support.

'An Open System of Closed Enclaves': Tolerance, Past and Present, in America

Richard Brodsky | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics
Richard Brodsky

There's a growing national consensus that fighting to the death doesn't meet the needs of modern America. Only a president can instruct the nation on the need for a re-thinking of our political values.

Saddam's Revenge on America

Stephan Richter | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics
Stephan Richter

Much as the U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan eventually became like the medieval holy warriors they fought, so too have the countries' political systems converged in terms of their polarization.

The Problem With Charm Offensives: If They Are Needed, They Have Already Failed

David Coates | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
David Coates

Please, Mr. President: no grand bargains with the defeated. No toleration of their scorched-earth policies. Stop inviting Republicans to dinner. Start eating them for lunch. Democratic charm-offensives focused on Republican lawmakers can come at too high a price.

The Best Path To Reconciliation Is Through The Stomach

Henry G. Brinton | Posted 05.07.2013 | Religion
Henry G. Brinton

Obama is using hospitality as a way of breaking partisan gridlock on new taxes and spending cuts. Wasn't that what Jesus was trying to do when he invited himself to the home of Zacchaeus, a hated tax collector and notorious sinner?

Michael McAuliff

Disgusted Ex-Republican Pushes Bipartisan Caucus In Congress

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.06.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A pair of Democratic trackers didn't seem too disappointed last summer when they couldn't find Rep. Allen West at a venue on the outskir...

How Not to Be Bipartisan

Jennifer Hoelzer | Posted 05.05.2013 | Politics
Jennifer Hoelzer

As long as both parties go into negotiations determined to make each other side look bad, they have about as much chance of reaching a meaningful bipartisan agreement as a non-floater has of beating Michael Phelps across the pool.

The Sequester Is the Failure of Washington and the Best Thing That Could Have Happened

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.02.2013 | Politics
Georges Ugeux

The world watches this absurd show of impotence with incredulity. So, the most important country in the world and a model of democracy (or at least we believe so) are unable to have a serious dialogue on a measure that they accepted over a year ago and knew they had to fix?

America Needs a New Political Party

Jeffrey E. Schwarz | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics
Jeffrey E. Schwarz

The two-party system has a long history in America, but is no longer serving the interests of our country.

What's in a Name?

J. Travis Smith | Posted 04.29.2013 | Politics
J. Travis Smith

Rhetorical manipulation clouds reality. We aren't debating the facts anymore, but how the facts are delivered.

Jason Linkins

David Brooks Is Apparently Sick Of 'Stale' Debates

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.26.2013 | Politics

Well, here's one for David Brooks' class on humility. In his most recent piece, the New York Times columnist moves a bit beyond his previous "I made t...

Can Obama Save Politics?

Scott Warren | Posted 04.19.2013 | Politics
Scott Warren

One of the only subjects that Democrats and Republicans agree on right now is that our political process is broken.

Chelsea Kiene

Obama's Election Commission Offers 'Business As Usual' Without Reform, Activists Say

HuffingtonPost.com | Chelsea Kiene | Posted 02.14.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's creation of an independent Presidential Commission on Election Administration to address voting problems has sp...

The Nuclear Misconception

William Rose | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics
William Rose

How quickly would you work to achieve a goal with an uncertain deadline if missing the deadline in question could prove fatal?

John Celock

Chris Christie Heaps More Praise On Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 01.31.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), in a speech designed to boost his reelection this year and a possible 2016 presidential candidacy, t...

New Mental Health Law: Future Sociopaths Required to Predict When They Will Kill People

Spencer Green | Posted 04.01.2013 | Comedy
Spencer Green

In a unanimous vote, Congress has passed The Criminal Clarity Act (CCA), a law requiring all U.S. citizens who plan on becoming mass murderers to identify themselves as such and to predict when they will kill people.

Unity: The Solution We Are Searching for

Janet Murguía | Posted 03.31.2013 | Latino Voices
Janet Murguía

In his inaugural address, it was no mistake that the president mentioned the word "together" not once, not twice, but seven times. If there has been one thing lacking in Washington over the past four years, it has been a willingness to work together -- and both parties share in the blame.

Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo: The Mid-Atlantic Libertarian Solution

Alex Knepper | Posted 03.23.2013 | Politics
Alex Knepper

As the Republican Party agonizes over its ideological future and the Democratic Party wrangles over its commitment to progressivism, two exemplary Mid-Atlantic governors have emerged to set the tone for a possible consensus mode of governance.