McCain/Bush compromise would be "Bipartisanship"

[Stevendsmith]

Wingnut Bipartisanship

by digby

I just saw John Fund on Hardball saying over and over again that the president and John McCain would find a reasonable compromise on the torture issue that will satisfy everyone. I find that amusing. It was as if government was working as it should with the president debating the opposing party and coming to a nice bipartisan outcome.

The only problem, of course, is that is isn't really "bipartisan" at all, is it? It's a stragely public debate between a nutball Republican president and a nutball Republican senator. Can there be any question that "bipartisanship" and "compromise" between these two, six weeks before an election, would not result in John Fund being satisfied? I thought not.

I hear Joe Lieberman is running on his bipartisan credentials these days too and it's not surprising either. His definition of bipartisanship is also to take sides with John McCain in a Rovian kabuki with George Bush, follow the script, get rolled and then call it a compromise.

George W. Bush doesn't actually compromise with Democrats and Republicans in congress have consciously governed without Democratic input for six years. There has not been any birpartisanship as it is commonly understood since Bill Clinton was president. (And when Bill Clinton was president, Lieberman sided with the same Republicans he sides with today and called that bipartisanship too.)

This new definition of bipartisanship means Republicans like Joe Lieberman, John McCain and Lindsay Graham are considered the loyal opposition to a Republican president.

I don't think that's very good for America, do you?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_09_01_digbysblog_archive.html#115861759995591806

[FrenchieCat]

1. Or a "set-up"? n/t

orchestrated to bring us the "strong Republicans" regardless of Bush....

or to change the meaning of bipartisan to make it easier to accomplish in the future?

Cause so far the meaning of bipartisan means Democrats agreeing with Republican demands.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Is anything known about who Digby is?

Besides a blogger.

[David Zephyr]

3. Really!

"This new definition of bipartisanship means Republicans like Joe Lieberman, John McCain and Lindsay Graham are considered the loyal opposition to a Republican president."