Many a time, President Barack Obama has called for more bipartisanship in the government. This would mean that far left liberals and far right conservatives would be essentially “reaching across the aisle” and either pushing for better compromise, or fighting for what they thought to be right, and not just for what their party decreed as beneficial. However, with an astounding number of same-party votes, Barack Obama’s words don’t seem to actually reflect his own actions. Is this hypocritical?
Can President Obama make a bipartisan Washington a reality or will it remain a political fantasy?
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Interesting question. Unfortunately, however, the current structure isn't set up to support bipartisanship. If they agreed on things then there'd be no way to distinguish between them, and no reason, then, to vote for the other party. It doesn't appear in their best interest to agree with the other side.
ReplyDeleteSadly, things seem to be done there solely for political reasons. But, watch this TED video and try to imagine a world where things were done because they're the right thing to do, rather than because they're either the "rule", or the PC thing to do. TED video
if obama expects washington to change from strict partisan politics into bipartisan politics him and all supporters of this should realize that this has been the way of politics since america has grown into such a great world power and that this will not change in a day week month or even a year. But i think he may only be focused on this more because he had no republican support for his stimulus package to work he needs not only the support from the democrats but from the republicans as well.
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ReplyDeleteI agree wholly that a complete bipartisan government would effectively meld together and remove every party. I understand your point, that the politicians tend to work for their own political benefit instead of for what is actually good and right. However, I believe that politicians have a moral obligation to at least try to do what is right for the country, and appropriate for the situation.
The point is, though, that Mr. Obama preaches this--yet, he does not seem to follow his own doctrine. Ideally, he would be voting against his party as well as for it.
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It is true that such a push for a bipartisan washington would take extremem effort and much time--but it seems to be a worthy effort. As for your idea that it may just be a plan to get republican backing for his stimulus plan, this is probably true in part--of course Obama would like republican backing. But, it also seems that he would like to have more McCain types in office, more Mavericks, on both sides of the table. As it stands, legislation tends to weigh one way or another.