Since its voting time On each of the “partisan fights” listed in the piece that have come to define the Obama presidency, you can find the same pattern emerging: the president making concessions and backing away from allies and trying to get the Republicans on board, and the Republicans remaining in defiant opposition and refusing to even entertain the notion of compromise (unless their hand is forced by a looming crisis, in which case they allow themselves to be dragged over the finish line). And from this dynamic, somehow, we arrive at blaming both sides for Washington’s inability to compromise.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 14:58:43 +0000
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