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In D.C., ‘Bipartisanship’ Has Become a Bad Thing - When It Isn’t, We Should Seize the Opportunity

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It Doesn’t Have to

Always Be This Way Bipartisanship in Washington, D.C. has for the most part devolved into a pipe dream, a dirty word - or both. A pipe dream because after decades of gerrymandering - partisanship is what you get. Gerrymandering is elected officials choosing voters rather than the other way round. Those already elected carve Congressional districts into bizarre shapes to - at the grainiest of micro-levels - decide which voters go where. You can’t create a plethora of 60+% partisan districts - and then act surprised when the resulting elected officials are partisan. Bipartisanship is now rightly a dirty word for conservatives - because in DC Speak it means “Capitulate in as many ways as possible to Leftists.” The examples of this unbelievable double standard are without end. From the just deceased Lame Duck Session - here is how two Senators were treated for their opposition to the absurd and awful, rushed and harried, bipartisan $1.1 trillion “Cromnibus.”

(Republican) Ted Cruz Just Did a Huge Favor for Democrats

Ted Cruz Gave Obama An Early Christmas Gift Over The Weekend

“Speaker Ted Cruz” is Back, Right on Schedule, to Make John Boehner’s Life a Nightmare

Versus…

(Democrat) Elizabeth Warren’s Quiet (But Huge) Win: Why Wall Street Lobbyists Really Hated Her “Cromnibus” Fight

Elizabeth Warren Is Right: The Cromnibus Aids Crony Capitalism

Elizabeth Warren is Catching Fire

Conservatives can thus certainly be forgiven for recoiling whenever they receive demands for “bipartisanship.” But it ain’t always and forever terrible. When the opportunity for positive-policy-bipartisanship presents itself - we should grab on with both hands.

McConnell Says He and Obama Discussed Working on Trade, Taxes

Republican Mitch McConnell, in line to become U.S. Senate majority leader, said he’ll try to end Washington gridlock and that he and President Barack Obama spoke about working on a tax-law revision and trade agreements….

“I said send us trade agreements. We’re anxious to take a look at them,”the senator said. “We’ll see whether we can work with the president. We hope so.”

Obama Sketches 2015 Agenda of Taxes, Trade; Meets McConnell

…Obama told the Business Roundtable, a group of chief executives of top U.S. businesses, that he would like to pursue corporate tax reform (and) free-trade deals….

"The good news, despite the fact that obviously the midterm elections did not turn out exactly as I had hoped, is that there remains enormous areas of potential bipartisan action and progress," Obama said.

Of course, the DC Speak Enforcers don’t like bipartisanship unless it results in ever-larger government.

McConnell And Obama Are Already Planning To Undercut Liberal Democrats In Congress

President Obama’s Push for Trade Deal Angers Fellow Democrats

The outreach to Republicans, combined with Obama’s changed rhetoric on international trade, has frustrated Democrats such as Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio…. Wait - this Senator Brown?

Brown Says Bipartisanship Needed to Advance Economy

Removing government impediments to commerce certainly advances the economy. Less government = more economic activity. Precisely because of this government shrinkage - Senator Brown opposes the bipartisanship. Then of course there’s….

Bernie Sanders' Brutal Letter On Obama's Trade Pact

Bernie Sanders Blows the Lid Off the Bipartisan Plan To Cut Taxes

Wait - that’s a whole lot of Socialist Senator Sanders opposition to bipartisanship. Why? Because these efforts make government smaller. What kind of bipartisanship does he love?

Bernie Sanders: Scott Brown KILLED Bipartisan Energy Bill for Petty Politics

That “energy”bill was yet another government-money, Solyndra-stuffed, Crony Socialist nightmare mess. It greatly grew government - so Senator Sanders was suddenly again bipartisan. “Bipartisanship”doesn’t have to be bad. And we do not have to let the DC Speak Enforcers define it. Free trade and tax reform are bipartisan. And they’re good. Let us thus go forward - together. Editor's Note: This first appeared in Human Events.


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