As our new President sets off to "change" America the lip service given to bipartisianship during the campaign is appearing to be just that, "lip service". In a recent closed door meeting (so much for transparency as was eluded to in the Obama inaugural address) many of the invited Republicans reported to the media that Obama told them to quit listening to Rush Limbaugh if they wanted to "get along" with democrats. In other words, do what Democrats want and we will all get along. Well, I guess that is a "change", a change in the definition of bipartisianship!
There were almost 60 million Americans that did not vote for Obama in the election. I guess if they're not democrats, or don't agree with the current democats, that want to "spread the wealth" then they simply don't count.
According to news reports, the new President, when confronted by a critic in the closed door meeting about the economic stimulus package, referenced his Presidential election victory as his card that can trump all other opinions regarding the economic stimulus package. Of course, he often said throughout the campaign and after the election was over that he wanted any and all inputs and ideas no matter their source....of course, thats just more lip service. It seems as if the illusion of change and bipartisianship is the objective of the new administration.
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