bipartisanship

If all goes well, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch could get an up-or-down confirmation vote as U.S. attorney general, well, maybe Thursday, or else early next week.

Well, the regular working families are the ones who take it in the neck, of course. Republicans grudgingly prepared to not shut down the government by bragging to their extremist fringe that they would still enforce plenty of pain on the poor people their party is perpetually at war with.

Every now and then, the teabaggers team up with progressives and the two populist wings of their respective parties work together to challenge the grotesquely corrupt Establishment wings of the two Beltway parties.

This diagram shows the ideological spectrum of the Members who supported the Grayson amendment on police demilitarizationGeorge Bush demanded-- hysterically-- that Congress pass the TARP giveaway to banksters that came close to wrecking the economy. But it can't only be pinned on Bush; both Establishment Beltway parties were complicit in that catastrophic vote.

In 2013 right-wing lunatic Robert Pittenger and a less extreme, business-friendly Republican calling himself a New Dem, Patrick Murphy, sent out a letter to House leadership from a motley crew of conservative freshmen-- from crackpot sociopaths like domestic terror supporter Steve Stockman (R-TX), congressional coke dealer Trey Radel (R-FL), whack job teabaggers like Kerry Bentivolio (R-MI), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Ted Yoho to the usual aisle-crossing Blue Dogs and New Dems from the Republican wing o

Yesterday we looked at how Steve Israel's "bipartisan" conservative group, the Center Aisle Caucus, so dear to the heart of Establishment imbeciles like David Broder, destroyed any chance the Democrats had to retake the House (in 2012 and again this year).

Shenna Bellows (D) and Rand Paul (R)-- a real bipartisan approachThank God, some of our candidates-- particularly Shenna Bellows (ME) and Jay Stamper (SC) for Senate and

The 2 wings of the Hawaiian Democratic PartyThe worst of the corporately-owned conservative Democrats-- shills like Ro Khanna (CA), Marjorie Margolies (PA), Don Beyer (VA), Wendy Greuel (CA), Kevin Strouse (PA), Pete Aguilar (CA) and the two from the Republican wing of the Hawaiian Democratic Party, Donna Mercado Kim and Colleen Hanabusa-- love to bray incessantly about their efforts to work across the aisle in a "bipartisan" manner.

Opposition is bipartisan… but not from Lindsey GrahamAlthough the Beltway pundits of conventional wisdom-- like the brain scientists at Cook-- rate Lindsey Graham as "safe," I wouldn't want to be forced to put any money on that. Nate Silver claims Lindsey has a 97% chance of being reelected, just 1% less than Tim Scott and 7% better than Al Franken's reelection odds.

Evan Jenkins was a very right-wing Democrat who followed his opportunistic instincts to switch parties recently and run against a right-wing Democrat who hasn't switched parties, Nick Rahall. Jenkins' TV spot above has a couple of lines I want to call special attention to: