The author, Jonah Goldberg, is correct on one key point: bipartisanship can be worse than gridlock. In fact, it generally is. Much extra-constitutional mischief has been done through “bipartisanship.” Remember the Patriot Act was approved by the Senate 98-1. Bipartisanship, ahoy, matey!
We should not lose sight of the goal, which is to protect our constitutional liberties. If we need do to that through bitter partisan fighting, so be it. If we can do that through “bipartisanship,” well, OK too.
Also it’s a bit bizarre and hypocritical for Jonah Goldberg, of all people, to “want to put in a good word for partisanship.”
Partisanship in the political context means you support your political party. If your political party nominates someone, and you preferred your favorite guy, you suck it up and go down the street and ring doorbells and say “vote for our nominee.” You don’t say “our guy is perfect,” but you at least say “our party is better.” That’s what partisanship is.
But this is the same nominally Republican guy who, in the last 48 hours, has called a Republican president “a draft dishonest, draft dodging adulterer and serial business cheat” while heaping praise on Robert Mueller.
I’m amused by how Goldberg called Kurt Schlichter, someone who’s done something in his life rather be paid to be a full-time professional (if nominal) conservative since college, a “nihilistic professional troll who is playing you.”
What have these Beltway “conservatives” conserved? Why would they “put in a good word for partisanship” when they’re so evidently hypocrites?
The author, Jonah Goldberg, is correct on one key point: bipartisanship can be worse than gridlock. In fact, it generally is. Much extra-constitutional mischief has been done through “bipartisanship.” Remember the Patriot Act was approved by the Senate 98-1. Bipartisanship, ahoy, matey!
We should not lose sight of the goal, which is to protect our constitutional liberties. If we need do to that through bitter partisan fighting, so be it. If we can do that through “bipartisanship,” well, OK too.
Also it’s a bit bizarre and hypocritical for Jonah Goldberg, of all people, to “want to put in a good word for partisanship.”
Partisanship in the political context means you support your political party. If your political party nominates someone, and you preferred your favorite guy, you suck it up and go down the street and ring doorbells and say “vote for our nominee.” You don’t say “our guy is perfect,” but you at least say “our party is better.” That’s what partisanship is.
But this is the same nominally Republican guy who, in the last 48 hours, has called a Republican president “a draft dishonest, draft dodging adulterer and serial business cheat” while heaping praise on Robert Mueller.
I’m amused by how Goldberg called Kurt Schlichter, someone who’s done something in his life rather be paid to be a full-time professional (if nominal) conservative since college, a “nihilistic professional troll who is playing you.”
What have these Beltway “conservatives” conserved? Why would they “put in a good word for partisanship” when they’re so evidently hypocrites?