Suddenly Democrats hate bipartisanship

One month ago, CNN clucked its tongue and posted, " 'Bipartisanship' is a dirty word for Senate Republicans." Tut-tut. Poor sportsmanship.

But now that Democrats Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin have shown some willingness to work with Republicans, the cable channel opposes bipartisanship. Its story on Friday was "Manchin offers little comfort to frustrated Democrats."

The media labels Manchin reaching out to Republicans as bad because the media defines bipartisanship only as Republicans capitulating to Democrats.

With a nearly even divide in Congress -- a 50/50 Senate and a 220-212 House -- compromise should be the only way to pass major legislation.

But Democrats want to add two Democrat states, have Congress take over elections, pack the Supreme Court, forgive student loans, and otherwise destroy our constitutional republic with only 50 votes in the Senate.

Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times provided a good summary of the entitlement that the Entitled Generation of college graduates believes is theirs following the 2020 election.

She wrote, "Democrats hope that Manchin, who has said Democrats should have faith that there are “10 good people” in the Republican caucus, will lessen his opposition to filibuster reform when Senate Republicans repeatedly prove him wrong. It’s harder to know what Sinema actually believes and thus what could sway her; she seems above all dedicated to a view of herself as a quirky maverick, and delights in trolling the Democrats who elected her. In April, after infuriating progressives by voting against including a federal minimum wage increase in the coronavirus relief package, she posted an Instagram photo of herself wearing a ring spelling out a dismissive obscene phrase that begins with F and ends with off.

"This gap between the scale of the catastrophe bearing down on us and the blithe refusal of Manchin and Sinema to help is enough to leave one frozen with despair. Democrats have no discernible leverage over Manchin and little over Sinema, though they ought to consider primarying her. (Unlike Manchin, she’s not the only Democrat who could win a Senate seat in her state.) Those who want our democracy to endure have no choice but to keep asking, imploring and cajoling these two lawmakers to value it above the false idol of bipartisanship, but so far there’s little sign they will.

"So we’re stuck. The overarching story of American politics right now is that Republicans are laying the groundwork to accomplish legally what they failed to do by force on Jan. 6. Sinema could help fortify our country against a tide of Trumpist authoritarianism that could soon wash away everything that makes it worthwhile. Instead she’s showing us her ring."

Primarying Sinema is a great strategy because she won't be up for re-election until 2024, and goodness knows how many other covids Red China will unleash on us by then.

The opposition to compromise is so fierce and so seemingly illogical that I wonder if the plan by Democrats is to portray Republicans as obstructionists and really gain the House and Senate in 2022.

More likely, we are seeing how old and weak Democrats are. A new generation keeps them in power but their demands are best left ignored. What better way than to find a scapegoat to blame for the failure, Mister Phil E. Buster.

Besides, why compromise when Chairman Biden has a pen and a phone?

It might not pack the court or grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico, but it can accomplish the rest.