Partisanship Alive and Well in Washington

Today's news 'Alert' on FoxNews was from a wall of Democratic leadership proclaiming 'bipartisan' work on the current legislation floating through the Congressional ether to fix the current lending market 'crisis.' You will note, there was not a single Republican among them.

To hear Congressman Barny Frank, D-NY talk about irresponsibility of others in de-regulating the market is quite frankly nauseating. I've heard from his own mouth in clips how he DID NOT want to put more regulations on this market sector while his committee had oversight of it these past two years.

Senator Harry Reid, D-NV, blamed the 'last 8 years' of no oversight of this market. Obviously he meant this current White House administration. Meanwhile, back in the Congress, the Democrats have for years wagged their collective tongues about how lenders should lend to those who cannot possibly pay their mortgages, and whose ability to repay their mortgages would be destroyed when the housing market collapsed, which it finally did. This reckless abandoning of common-sense free-market principles has led to this disaster.

This is the same Harry Reid, who, while the president was overseas, told high school students that the president was 'a loser.'

Zero credit was given to the president, the secretary of the treasury, or the chairman of the Federal Reserve. In fact, the administration was vilified by Speaker Pelosi, D-CA. This is the same Nancy Pelosi who said that the president was 'a total failure.'

What has happened to raise the amount of rancor coming from the Democrats in Washington in the past twenty years? They had a two-term popular president in the 90's, and have retaken Congress. They certainly have the media on their side. The snarky, snide remarks towards the president, the administration, and their Republican counterparts have become horrid.

One can hardly compare the two sides. There are no snippets from Republicans floating around the internet or the mainstream media calling Pelosi or Reid 'losers' or 'total failures.' Why has the left become so truly destructive and hateful? In the 1980s, Dems and Reps would fight for what they wanted, then at the end of the day Democrat Speaker Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan could chat and have a drink together, two old Irish guys just laughing it up. I daresay you'd not find such a thing in Washington these days. It's as if the liberal left views conservatives as not just political opponents, but evil creatures who must be destroyed.

With mouths dripping in partisanship and blame, they dare to use the word 'bi-partisan?' A truly disgusting, though unsurprising, display.