{"id":3503,"date":"2010-12-01T01:43:20","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T09:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2010-12-01T01:43:20","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T09:43:20","slug":"the-easter-bunny-santa-claus-and-bipartisanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/the-easter-bunny-santa-claus-and-bipartisanship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Bipartisanship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Easter Bunny myth was the first to go.  I found the baskets, the plastic grass, and the bags of candy in the hall closet.  When my parents mentioned the bunny on Easter morning I called them on it.  I didn\u2019t care as long as I got to pig out on candy.  Santa Claus was a more severe loss, because I faced ridicule, when schoolmates told me it was really my parents.  But like all children, I survived the demise of these childhood myths.  I have no doubt that like me, President Barack Obama no longer believe in either the Easter Bunny or Santa Claus, but on another childhood myth, he just doesn\u2019t seem to get it.  Mr. President, there is no such thing as bipartisanship!<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1Obama\"President Obama and congressional Republicans expressed determination Tuesday to reach an agreement on the tax cuts due to expire at year’s end, raising the possibility of a compromise<\/strong> that could avert a tax increase for virtually every American worker. <\/p>\n

The comments came after a much-anticipated meeting at the White House between Obama and GOP leaders, their first face-to-face encounter since Democrats suffered heavy losses on Election Day. No formal agreement was made, but the meeting marked a sharp departure from the practice of the past two years, when Obama dealt almost exclusively with Democrats – in part because Republicans were content to try to block his every move\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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What more does he need to realize that the only compromise possible with today\u2019s Republicans is total capitulation.  In their view, his only proper place is at the end of a rope, seen in the light of a burning cross.  Why doesn\u2019t he get that?<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow teams up with my favorite Democrat who isn\u2019t one to make this point.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

First, at this point, if Bernie Sanders were to run for the Presidency as a Democrat, he would have my full support.<\/font><\/p>\n

Second, using the metaphor from early in Rachel\u2019s piece, the Republican Party has plans to serve the poor and middle classes.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Easter Bunny myth was the first to go.  I found the baskets, the plastic grass, and the bags of candy in the hall closet.  When my parents mentioned the bunny on Easter morning I called them on it.  I didn\u2019t care as long as I got to pig out on candy.  Santa Claus was […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}