Obama Bipartisanship

Obama created the space for the Democrats to work. He outlined a lot of stuff, but did not get specific in the semantics. He opened up the lane once again for prima donna Congresspeople to drive in for the layup.

We need to see President Obama's teeth Wednesday night. I want to know that there is some steel behind the cool facade.

The New York Times recently reported that the Obama administration is heeding a list of six lessons from previous efforts to reform health care. Unfortunately, the three most crucial lessons were left off the list.

What we've been witnessing during this health care reform process can easily be defined as "bipartisanship porn." It's a display of bipartisanship so obscene and excessive that it borders on perverse.

Republicans made it clear that no goodwill gesture, no effort to meet them halfway signals anything other than weakness. Will somebody explain to me why Obama is still on his bipartisan kick?

WAKARUSA, Ind. — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he's determined to get an overhaul of the health care system before the end of the year a...

Obama's tendency to make concessions in the name of bipartisanship appears to be encouraging him to water down reforms to the point where they may no longer work.

One hundred days into office, Barack Obama's list of accomplishments is certainly immense. From the budget, passed by the Senate on Wednesday night, t...

Was all of Obama's bipartisanship talk on the campaign trail and in his first days as president just a shuck or a big mistake? I don't think so.

In an interview with the Washington Times' Cal Thomas, Michael Steele says that Obama's quest for bipartisanship is not a political reality. Mr. Ste...

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, it is "experienced" Beltway insiders who have actually caused the largest problems for Obama.

You routinely hear it asserted that the public wants bipartisan comity in Washington, but some striking numbers buried in the internals of the new New...

Tax cuts without a stimulus package is like shooting someone to minister to a bullet wound: it only creates more bleeding with no end in sight.

Less than a month into his presidency, Obama has found that no one is really buying bipartisanship. The notion that a bipartisan process will yield more GOP support has been officially shredded.

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, in an interview with reporters, conceded that President Obama lost control of the stimulus debate by focusing...

The Republicans seem to be taking "opposition party" as their sole defining characteristic as they flounder for their place in the new political landscape.

Can Obama learn to manage the political process and accomplish his policy goals and still remain who he is as a human being? Can a decent man be president?

Republicans stand near-united to fight the President of the United States out of one side of their mouths - and cry for bi-partisanship out of the other.

When Galileo became convinced of the truth about how the solar system works, he didn't decide to just split the difference with the Pope so he could get a few nice editorials about "common ground" and "working together." Obama needs to stop trying to appease the bipartisanship fetishists. READ MORE Why is Obama Reluctant to Kill the Zombie Banks Threatening Our Economy? The plan laid out -- or, more accurately, sketched out -- by Tim Geithner makes it very clear that he is on the wrong side of the issue, more worried about the banking industry than the American people. Like Hank Paulson before him, Geithner appears more concerned about saving particular banks than saving the banking system. READ MORE

This endless loop of partisan "we won, you lost" attitudes, exhibited by both political parties, is exactly what has alienated so much of the American electorate for such a long time.

After a week of legislative successes for President Obama, Republicans seized on one asterisk: his inability to line up support from their ranks. As h...

Barack Obama and his team of advisers have framed the process of crafting a stimulus package as one that will be inclusive and bipartisan in nature. ...

Obama ran as both the candidate of change and the candidate of pragmatism and bipartisan action. So does he tell the story of our economic collapse and what we need to do about it without mentioning that someone actually caused it?

"To Obama": 1. to rise above personal assault for the greater good; 2. to take rivals, hold them close, and use their innumerable talents for service.

Can Barack Obama succeed in laying Richard Nixon's ghost to rest? As Obama pledges bipartisanship and reaches across the aisle to John McCain, many of us can't help but hope that we've seen the end of the politics of denigration.