Boston Globe wins Most Naive Headline of the Day honors
January 22, 2010 9:06 am ET by Eric Boehlert
Thanks to this Scott Brown-related dispatch [emphasis added]:
Mass. could benefit if senators set aside partisanship
Right, and if ponies could fly they'd land on rainbows.
This goes back to the point I made yesterday about how the political press refuses to tell the truth about what's been happening inside the Beltway for the last 13 months regarding how the GOP has adopted a radical and unprecedented partisan approach to the White House, to the point where basically every single GOP member opposes all key administration initiatives. We've never seen anything like it in modern American history, but the press pretends like it's normal, and that gosh, bipartisanship is still possible.
Does the Globe really think there's a chance Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. John Boehner are suddenly going to free their members to vote their conscience on issues and to vote for what's best for their constituents?
The Globe is being almost childishly naive here.
Let's change this around a little.
U.S. could benefit if GOP senators set aside partisanship
There, now it makes more sense.
The good thing is that Brown is saying all the right things.
Now, the voters or Mass., get to find out if he is just mouthing platitudes or if he means what he says.
From a strictly personal point of view, partisanship is bad no matter which side is guilty of it. Normally the correct path is somewhere around the middle point of view, not the extreme right or left.
Now this would be a grassroots movement I could support: bipartisanship and the congresspersons doing what they are supposed to be doing - representing us!
The Republicans are 90% to blame for the lack of bipartisan effort in Congress. Rightwing talk radio is 90% responsible for the lack of bipartisan discourse.