WaPo: Partisanship is admirable – for Democrats
Paul Kane of the Washington Post gushes over what he calls the “unity” in the Democrat Congress;
Through the first five months of the year, the average House Democrat has voted with a majority of his/her caucus colleagues on 94 percent of the 425 roll calls. Enjoying their honeymoon period, 110 Democrats — nearly half of the 232 Democrats — have sided with a majority of the caucus on at least 98 percent of the votes cast this year.
Consider this: Rep. Adam Putnam (R-Fla.) has been the most partisan Republican in the 110th Congress, voting with a GOP majority on 98 percent of votes. But if someone prints out the washingtonpost.com’s chart of most partisan voters in the House, they will have to turn through eight and a half pages of House Democrats before they see Putnam’s red-headed mug shot (Rep. Charles Norwood R-Ga., who died on Feb. 13 and cast only nine votes in the 110th Congress, is the lone exception.)
No other caucus of House Republicans or Democrats has maintained such a unified voting bloc over a two-year Congress, according to washingtonpost.com’s vote tracking feature.
Just for grins, I did a “Yahoo search” of “rubber stamp congress” and got 1.3 million hits from the likes of Glen Greenwald, Firedoglake, Crooks and Liars – none of them refering to the partisanship of the Democrats in this session of Congress, of course. Another search, “partisanship congress” got another 1.1 million hits, again most about the last Congressional session. And one odd one about this session needing MORE partisanship in Congress.
So I did a search on Washington Post just on the word partisanship – I got 43 hits in the last 60 days. Every one of the articles (except the one I linked above) was about the evils of Republican partisanship.
I’m just sayin’….
