Bipartisanship doesn't work anymore, except as tonal strategy
(NEWSER) - Barack Obama got his stimulus passed, but he couldn’t convince any Republicans to vote for it, and that sent the media fretting. Had the president, as one paper put it, “delivered the post-partisan era” he’d promised? “The man had been in office for eight days,” writes Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker, “a tight schedule for era-delivering.” Bipartisanship may not even be possible anymore, but Obama knows what he’s doing. More»
