Here's A Bipartisan Idea......

[global1]

We always hear reference by either a House Rep or a Senator about his colleagues "across the aisle" or on the "other side of the aisle". How did this segregation come about and why should it continue to be fostered? Why don't they intermingle the Repugs, Dems and Indy's throughout the seats in the House and the Senate chambers? Wouldn't that be a very visible way of "changing the way Washington works"?

Perhaps if the Repugs, Dems and Indy's were integrated in these chambers - there would be more productive conversation between all versus just talking to those that hold the same beliefs. It also is more representative of what is actually going on in each of their states or districts.

I don't just live in a Dem community, a Repug community or an Indy community. I live in a community that includes all of these political beliefs. Why shouldn't that be an example as to how the House and Senate chambers disperse our elected representatives?

I for one hate it when I hear someone say "across the aisle" or the "other side of the aisle". It about time that we removed those phrases from our lexicon.

[Voice for Peace]

1. I like this idea.

You're on to something. :thumbsup:

[leftstreet]

2. Then we could call it the Central Leadership Corporation n/t

[T Wolf]

3. You naively believe that the GOPers can be dealt with as cooperative partners? And sitting

closer to members of the our party will make them more rational?

Have you been listening since 1/20?

The repukes are an obstacle to getting anything positive done to reverse the disaster of the last eight years. They proved that AGAIN last night in voting in lockstep to oppose the stimulus package.

When will people like you, and the Democratic politicians, learn that lesson?

Sure, in a perfect world, we could all sit together and do what is best for the country. But rethugs do not have the interests of the nation anywhere near where their heart would be if they had one.

They are the enemy and need to be treated as such.

[global1]

5. Yes I Guess I Do Believe - As Our President Campaigned On ......

that they can be cooperative partners. When one takes the attitude that they are the enemy and need to be treated as such - it comes off sounding too Bushian. Doesn't that sound familiar? That's how Bush treated everyone that didn't believe like him.

President Obama is transcending that and I think you should think about adopting his principles.

I see my idea - as another gesture from our President - a way of him living up to what he had campaigned on and an attempt to break the hold that partisan politics has on Washington.

I don't care if the Repugs would embrace it or if Rush bad mouths the idea. It would be President Obama's way of living up to his words.

[T Wolf]

8. Definition of insanity. When have the pukes EVER compromised on anything? Or do

you see the counting of slaves as 3/5 of a person as a worthwhile "meeting in the middle" type of cooperation that we would get from the GOP?

In reality, they would demand 0/5 and settle for 1/100. That kind of consensus is not what I voted for.

[AllentownJake]

4. I got a Partisan idea

We can have the GOP reps sit outside the chambers...since they aren't interested in adding anything constructive they can sit outside while the adults work.

We can also move their congressional offices to an impovershed area so they can see how their policies effect people.

Thats change I can believe in.

[global1]

6. Isn't That The Very Same Thing We Here At DU Criticized The Repugs And BushCo For?.......

Didn't the Dems have to find alternate rooms around the capitol or in office buildings to conduct meetings because the Repugs wouldn't give them the time or the space?

Why do we have to be like them or conduct ourselves like them? Why can't we show the America people that we are better than them? It is the American people that we want to serve and it is the American people that are going to elect future Senators and Representatives. If they see Dems as wanting to change things and see the Repugs as obstructionist - who do you think they will vote for?

That's the change that I voted for in November and that's the change that got President Obama elected. Come on. Get with the program.

[AllentownJake]

7. Nuts

I want to beat them into the ground like a tent stake. Give them their chance to play ball and punish them when they don't.

[T Wolf]

9. Why do we have to deal with shits like them? Because of Obama's reaching out to them,

there are too many tax cuts, not enough infrastructure spending, and other sell-outs in the bill the HoR passed.

What benefit was gained by playing to them? They won some points, we lost some points, and the bill still passed without a single puke vote. For that result, we could have had a great bill.

[Prophet 451]

10. Our fault

The wide physical division between the opposing parties is something you inherited from us (the Brits). We, in turn, got it from the French. By tradition, it goes back to the days when men wore swords and the two front benches had to be 3 1/2 sword lengths apart (about fifteen feet) to allow anyone being attacked by someone from the other side time to draw his sword and defend himself. The Speaker's chair is on a raised platform for the same reason.

Nowadays, it just continues because it always has.

[asksam]

11. Here's a better bipartisan idea...

... we get 2/3 of each house for the Democrats. Then we kick out the Rethugs and they go home.