CNN has the article America’s real problem: Too much bipartisanship.  I like the article for what it has to say about bipartisanship, but most of all, I want to save the following paragraph from the article:

ious War on Poverty that aimed to provide tools for the poor to become self-sufficient. For over a decade, the program — which Johnson broadly defined to include all of his programs to help the poor — had a powerful effect. The poverty rate fell from 19% in 1964 to 11.2% in 1974. New government services, such as Head Start and Medicaid, have remained integral to those without economic means.

Keep this in mind the next time you see a cutesy bumper sticker that says “We fought the war on poverty, and we lost.”  By the numbers above, we seemed to have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in that war.

As for too much bipartisanship, that is not a new idea to my blog, here is a small sample of my posts on the subject.

Former Sen. Olympia Snowe: It’s Time for Voters to ‘Reward’ Bipartisanship, The Last Bipartisan, JOBS Act: The Dumbest “Bipartisan” Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall, The Bipartisan Political Alliance That Will Turn The Fight Over Medicare On Its Head, and Target Fixation At The Fork In The Road.