Comments on: Dear Congresscritters:

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 00:55:26 +0000

Steve, it would be a great thing if there were, in fact, at least three viable parties in this country. Two is not enough to keep these people honest.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:10:44 +0000

“Bipartisanship is sometimes a necessary tactic. It is never a philosophy of governance. Otherwise, why have two parties?” – Robert Kuttner

(Posted with full awareness that there are, at least in theory, more than two parties.)

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 17:46:01 +0000

The success of failure of any form of compromise has to based on the actual results. If the results are bad, it was a bad compromise. Compromise is a tactic, not a goal.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:31:42 +0000

I may be overstating my case. I'm prone to do so on occasion, according to my wife, but I would retract it and say that some instances of bipartisanship may be genuinely good. I'm just really tired of it being treated as presumptively good.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:27:23 +0000

Bipartisanship means lets you and me screw the voters.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:26:50 +0000

Bipartisanship only happens when partisans aren’t paying attention. In other words, if they could just get the liberal and conservative bloggers to go away and shut up….

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:40:27 +0000

The truth is impeachment is easier than overriding a veto as you only need a two-thirds vote in the Senate.

They keep acting like the “bipartisan fairy” is going to pop into view and wave a wand and restore comity in the halls of Congress. It’s not going to happen. The Repubs are going to block everything possible to paint the Dems as do nothings.

By: whig

whig — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:14:37 +0000

And it only requires a majority of the house to impeach. They may want to be sure that he’s not going to skate in the senate, but it’s not up to them to try the case. That’s the senate’s job.

The question is whether they believe high crimes and misdemeanors have been committed and if so, they should impeach. Otherwise they aren’t doing their jobs.