The extremely short half-life of bipartisanship

listening to bush's press conference yesterday, and listening to him talk about the need for cooperation across party lines for the good

of the country, i heard the words, i applauded the words, but my stomach was doing cartwheels... i guess it's not like i don't trust george or anything like that... ya, right...

steve clemons lays out the extraordinarily short life span of george bush's "bipartisanship..."

Speaker Pelosi and President Bush met for lunch today to try and patch up their differences, find some common ground and to see if "bipartisanship" was achievable in some key challenges facing the nation.

Pelosi magnanimously stated:
Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you for the opportunity to join you and the Vice President in what I think was a very productive meeting. We both extended the hand of friendship, of partnership to solve the problems facing our country, the challenges that America's working families face.

I look forward to working in a confidence-building way with the President, recognizing that we have our differences and we will debate them, and that is what our founders intended. But we will do so in a way that gets results for the American people.

The President's and new Speaker's comments before the press started at 1:04 pm today and concluded at 1:08 pm.

At 1:22 pm, the White House sent John Bolton's controversial nomination to serve as US Ambassador to the United Nations back up to the Senate.

Luckily, Lincoln Chafee would have none of it -- suggesting that such a nomination is clearly not in the spirit of what happened electorally in this country this week. By 2:15 pm, Chafee put an end to the Bolton confirmation process by fomalizing his previous "informal" opposition to Bolton in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

some phenomena, as evidenced by scientific research, are very fleeting... bush's bipartisanship clearly is in the fleeting category...

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