Bipartisanship......Is anyone worried??

Okay let's get one thing clear. I understand the need for bipartisanship and I equally understand the need to fulfil this campaign promise inter alia. BUT President Obama, goodness has not this bipartisan crap gone too far???

President Obama has pulled all the strings, dispatching his top economic advisor's to sooth the ego's of the party which refuses to accept defeat, inviting them along to talks intended only for his economic team, cocktails, all this to get SOME Republicans to wake up and smell the coffee and realise that these times we are in are bigger than their egos by signing on to this urgent fiscal bill, intended to shore up the economy and get millions of people back to work or on their feet.

In sticking to his campaign promise to reach out to the other side, Obama compromised many great projects, the chance to employ many in repairing and refurbishing the national mall, family planning programmes (not only to create jobs, but because the least we need in this economy are any more unwanted babies), slashing down the infrastructure budget (extremely bad idea after the bridge Collapse in Minnesota in 2007, the loss of energy recently to millions of households all due to bad electrical lines which are apparently non-resistant to snow....God knows many roads and bridges are 50 years due for repairs)...ALL this to please the Republicans and guess what..... ZERO percent vote by republicans for a bill which has been watered down to make them feel better.....You're kidding me!

I hope the Obama administration has learnt a lesson from this. I completely respect the need for bipartisanship BUT Americans voted for a change for many reasons, one of which is for the new administration not to be anything like its predecessor on policy grounds..The republicans cannot have their way since their numbers in both houses would not permit.....SO why is President Obama pandering to these nutheads? Like Obama rightly said a few days ago when these same people tried to shut him down, " I WON" he said. So Mr. President act like you won and please, please... send these people back to political exile....

With all due respect!