The Limits of Compromise

Eugene Robinson, Washington PostBefore we make political partisanship a felony, punishable by endless lectures from weather-vane senators and allegedly "wise" commentators, let's remember that some choices are real, consequential and mutually exclusive.I'm not talking about the kind of scorched-earth partisanship that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell espouses -- the notion that Republicans should favor anything that's politically harmful to Democrats, never mind what the impact on the country might be. "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to ...

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