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[ennierda]

If only bi-partisianship were that easy. Yeah, I'm sick of the screaming matches, too. We can dream.

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[arashinomoui.livejournal.com]

Bwahahahahahaha, I was nodding along with my standard "Nice puff piece" until I got to the end, "The culture of hyper-partisanship persists, but a leader's responsibility is to change a culture. This will require reinforcing Obama's strained centrist credentials -- a clear commitment to moving our nation not left or right, but forward."

A leader can't change the culture. He can provide a vision, he can encourage, nurture, and provide direction, but only the organization as a whole can change the culture. They have to buy-into what he is selling.

And no Obama can't fire those people who don't buy in and never will buy into the changes.

[ennierda.livejournal.com]

He did make efforts, but Congress is really entrenched in this partisianship mindset. Really, what else can he do?

[arashinomoui.livejournal.com]

If you listen to that guy - throw himself on the alter of bipartisanship and give the Republicans everything they want to make them agree. Unfortunately, there are only 2-4 moderate left on the Republican side of the senate, everyone else has been replaced by a conservative Democrat, or an even more conservative Republican.

[ennierda.livejournal.com]

As much as I would like to see Congress working together, I agree that Republican demands are unreasonable (take out this thing that never existed in the first place!), and quite honestly, even if we did give in they would probably torpedo the compromise bill anyway. They have to make themselves look good somehow. I don't understand why more people don't see that they are playing Bullshit. It's perfectly obvious to me that they hold nothing.

[arashinomoui.livejournal.com]

Because a large portion of our media has a fondness for deification of bipartisanship, where it is better to have both sides to agree on something, then to get a intrinsically good bill out of Congress. Combine that with the Arguing to the Middle fallacy AKA "I say Black, you say White, thus the answer must be grey!" fallacy that is similarly popular in the media, and you get our current state of affairs.