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.
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Date: 2009-08-27 03:59 pm (UTC)