I don’t think me calling House Republican members would have been that helpful. I tend not to be that persuasive on that side of the aisle. — 2008

My Take – No kidding?  You mean stern looks, pouting, and blaming every administration before yours isn’t a good negotiating technique to get the other side to work with you?  I would have thought that demagoguing in the press about how the evil Republicans are obstructing your wonderful plans would be enough.

The politics of this administration are more partisan than anything I’ve ever seen.  It seems almost desperate in the “Got to have it, got to have it now, don’t care who we hurt, who we piss off, or how much it costs” way it does business.  Dissent is treated as a personal attack, opposition is belittled by the chattering classes in the press, and disrespect seems to be the order of the day.

I’m not saying that changing regimes in Washington will change that, but I honestly don’t see how it could get much worse and we still have a semi-functional government.