Bipartisanship: An Alien Concept to the Dems

Don Surber makes a good point when he says, "A new generation of Democratic Party Purists has emerged. They consider bipartisanship to be collaboration. They consider themselves to be younger and better educated than the rest of us. And they have all the judgment of 5-year-old with a sugar bowl."

In another post, Surber steers us to an editorial in The Philadelphia Inquirer referencing this quote:

"Lieberman has no divine right to be a senator from Connecticut, a truth that seems only lately to have dawned on him. Iraq is as urgent an issue as there is, and if primary voters want a candidate who is more aligned with antiwar views, they have every right.

"What's lamentable about the campaign against Lieberman is that it has gone beyond a debate on Iraq to an attack on the very ideas of bipartisan compromise and divergent voices within a party.

"If that point of view triumphs in the Democratic Party, it will court permanent minority status."

The Demos revel in criticizing Bush for calling him a divider and not a uniter. They like to remind anyone who will listen to them about the President's pledge in the beginning of his first term that he would be a uniter.

Of course, the Demos had no interest in seeing this pledge becoming reality. All they had to do was to take a stand against everything Bush says or does. When the Demos speak of bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle, they are merely saying, "Do what we want. You're in power, we're not, but should be, it's our right, our place, to be in power. Oh, and Bush sucks."