Hoyer Says Bitter Partisanship is the GOP's Fault

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Is the fault of the American people. May-be the GOP is once again listening, enough spending and enough bigger goverment. May-be the Tea Parties and thousnds of people at least have caught their attention. May-be the votes in Va.,N.J.,and Mass. has made them think twice. May-be they remember Bush 41 read my lips, voted out. May-be they remember who balanced the budget in 95. May-be they remember getting voted out in 2006 and 2008 for spending to much and expanding gov. May-be they have remembered who they work for, the people.
Hoyer can spin it any way he wants, we'll see what happens in Nov.

Hunter of WI 7:55PM May 01, 2010

Lobbyists from business fund Republicans, lobbyists of labor and minorities fund Democrats. So neither side can join the other, else they'll loose financial support from their lobbyists.
Therefore gridlock.
The root of all evil is the love of money, and both parties have it. It's how they get re-elected - MONEY!
As long as campaigns are financed by lobbyists instead of public financing, partisanship means survival. They represent their money source or its bye-bye plush "job". We will never be represented until there is NO partisan money involved.
You can take that to the bank!

W. L. Head of NC 10:19PM April 30, 2010

Its called the Republicrat or the Demolican Party.
Either way we all lose...
Vote for Pat Paulsen for President!
http://www.paulsen.com/pat/
p.s. Am I showing my age?

Tom in San Diego of CA 9:37PM April 30, 2010

Everything is politicized these days. No issue is too big or too small for Democrats and Republicans to turn it into a ping-pong ball, they the only players in the game. It's sad, yes, but we're the ones allowing the game to go on by electing and reelecting folks who probably need interment, not voters' sanction.
Bipartisanship will happen--believe it--when we voters take no more partisan nonsense. It's not an easy solve, though, with the Right feeding their "base" daily doses of fear without letup. Tune in, and there they are--the Right-wing Harpies ready to steal whatever is on the plates of the dull-of-wit Democrats, who are always slow to act or react, knowing, as they do, that their ideas are, thank goodness, "Sound." Preaching from the inerrant gospel of Conservatism, the Right-wingers brook no alternatives to "The Word," whatever their Pooh-Bah Ronald Reagan saw fit to include in the gospel, sometimes called "the principles of Conservatism."
Those on the Right and those on the Left hold the keys to bipartisanship--their votes, their dedication to an America everyone can live in and contribute to. I don't mean the elected officials. I mean the ones electing them. Let's hope they see how great the responsibility and how important--far too important for small mindedness, shortsightedness, and narrow perspective. November is fast approaching!

Ron W. Smith of UT 9:07PM April 30, 2010

The Republicans are so bent on returning to power at any cost they have put the interest of their own party ahead of America. Their party has been usurped
by right wing idealogues. The whole party has been put into a conceptual straight jacket. Their efforts to bend the truth and reality is Orwellian. I have heard it said that this has led to epistemic closure. That's obvious.

Markov of OK 5:02PM April 30, 2010

I'm not a Democrat, but I cannot see people voting Republican, the wayn their attitude is. People have to be out of their cottonpicking minds to like arrogant Goldman Sachs. I am proud to be a Rooseveltian independent; both Teddy and Franklin were tough on Wall Street. Gotcha games and party loyalty have got to go. Can't one or two or three Republicans bolt and stop kissing up to Goldman? What punishment is Mitch McConnell or John Bioehner going to dish out to any Republicans who vote with the Democrats?

Jack Golding of KS 3:28PM April 30, 2010

Yeah, the republicans have refused to do anything since Obama was elected. They are more concerned with returning to power than trying to get America going again. If you like real farce, behold the republican legislature in Oklahoma. Their party has morphed into a cult of ignorance. ( epistemic closure seems to be their only concern. Trying to make sure no one deviates from the standard dogma )

Mik of OK 12:00PM April 30, 2010

Why have both sides truly lost their way they focus on them seleves while we are to believe it is for the people they are supposed to be servants to the people to allow the best the country has to offer and give the people choices to vote on it seems to me that the way of are smart foundingfathers is lost to the imaginary "modern" world.

mark rosset of FL 11:47AM April 30, 2010