Americans On Bipartisanship: Meh

by Josh Orton, Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 07:25:12 AM EST

Via Sargent, we find some interesting internals from the New York Timespoll released today:

  • Which do you think should be a higher priority for  Barack Obama right now -- working in a bipartisan way with Republicans in Congress or sticking to the policies he promised he would during the campaign:

    Working bipartisan way: 39%

    Sticking to policies: 56%
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  • Which do you think should be a higher priority for Republicans in Congress right now -- working in a bipartisan way with Barack Obama and Democrats in Congress or sticking to Republican policies?

    Working bipartisan way: 79%

    Sticking to policies: 17%

Americans don't support Obama for no reason - they support his agenda and leadership. And it's pretty clear that they want Republicans to drop the nose-spite-face schtick and get to work.

But GOP chair Michael Steele didn't get the memo - he's already hinting at political punishment for the three Republicans who voted for the stimulus. And guess who's giving the Republican response to Obama's Congressional address tonight...Gov. Bobby Jindal, a.k.a. the man rejecting stimulus money for Louisiana.

Tags: 111th Congress, Barack Obama, Bipartisanship (all tags)

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Obama and Rahm learned quickly

that bipartisanship is a foolish pursuit.

You don't negotiate with small pieces of trash on the road--you run over them.

by Geekesque 2009-02-24 08:16AM | 0 recs
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Gov. Bobby Jindal, a.k.a. the man rejecting stimulus money for Louisiana.

I think we all realize that Jindal is not rejecting anything substantial (2.5% of the stimulus). He's merely claiming that so that he can get lots of good press, and still get the benefit (from his base, at least) of appearing to be worried about deficits (while simultaneously getting most of the benefit of the stimulus).

His game is working well in the media, but I'd expect those of us here to know better.

by fsm 2009-02-24 08:53AM | 0 recs

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