Political parties and never-never land

In the United States we have a party that promises a future that will never be and a party that promises a past that never was.

How can we expect so-called bipartisanship of such polar unreasonableness?

"Bipartisanship" and health care

A recent Senate Finance Committee effort for bipartisanship on health care wound up gutting some important features of the health care plan. See "Senate Finance Committee Dropping Dem Health Goals".

I think the Democrats are not recognizing that there are really four parties in Congress: the major faction of the Democrats, the "Blue Dog" Democrats, the realistic Republicans, and the "Say No" Republicans. The real bipartisanship is for the major faction to be discussing the issue with the "Blue Dog" Democrats and the realistic Republicans, however few of the latter there are. These two groups are the ones to be working with, not the G No P.