Why do republicans hate bipartisanship?

Question

Now that democrats will be in Congress with fairly thin margins, we WILL have bipartisanship. Bipartisanship is what has been needed for over a decade. Republicans just want to hog all the power instead of allowing democrats to influence their ideas to make positive changes for our great nation.

And by the way, the lack of bipartisanship is partly what led to the republicans' downfall with these recent elections.

asmith...bipartisanship is what democrats have been begging for, for a long long time. Don't pin this on the democrats. The blame does sincerely belong to the republicans.

Answer 1

Still waiting for intelligent answers? I hope people are just busy typing, after the first two I saw.
I have to say, I agree with you- we need the checks and balances back in our government. Stagnation was going on, and I think a few of us were about ready to take to the streets in rebellion. It's kind of a shame the way you have to MAKE people act right. I think we will see more cooperation, less arrogance now that they have gotten the wake up call of the elections. I am hopeful.

Answer 2

Many of the key things politicians have vocally used to get votes have either a yes or no answer. For instance abortion should be legal or it should not. Now there are different styles of Republicans and Democrats which really doesn't mean much. For instance, the Democrats has an anti-abortionist run against a Republican and Republicans have a homosexual section called the Lincoln Logs.

Answer 3

I wouldn't pin that on ALL Republicans--just their top leadership, perhaps.

Anyway...
There is this widespread attitude (its a sort of "machismo" thing, IMO) that any level of compromise is a sign of weakness. And their leadership insisted on presenting a "united front," rather than allowing individual Congresspeople to represent their own constituency (and their own consciences). Furthermore, they feel that one of the worst evils is "situational morality" (something that they tend to blame on liberals-in-general). Now, to my mind, "situational morality" is about looking at all points-of-view on any given subject, weighing the pros and cons, and coming up with a best solution. But for them, that's just plain evil, because it implies that there is no such thing as something being always-right or always-wrong.

I belive that a large part of the problem is that that Republicans were put into power in the first place by constituents who are uncompromising in their values. Furthermore, those constituents feel that they are THREATENED by any and all ideas and practices that differ from their values, as if the more-liberal ideas and values were somehow being IMPOSED on them. But the fact is that the only thing that's being IMPOSED on them is that they cannot freely IMPOSE their ideas on everyone else. (Examples: They can privately pray all they want in school, but that's not enough for them--they won't be satisfied unless they can impose an officially-lead prayer on everyone else. Or, they can decide to keep every one of their own unplanned babies--no one's stopping them!--but they have to stick their noses into everyone else's business about what should be a very private decision.)

That much having been said, though: Liberal constituents can be just as unyeilding and unforgiving as the traditionalists/conservatives. For example, they might decide that they want no part of wars or the military-in-general, but they don't even want other people's kids to have the option to decide whether or not a military career is worthwhile--they want to ban recruiters from all public schools.

In summary, I think that what we're REALLY observing is that extremists on either the Left or the Right tend to be unwilling to compromise. It's just that a lot of extremist Rightists got voted into office over the past few years, and that's why it SEEMS as if Republicans are more-unwilling to compromise than Democrats.

Answer 4

I think bush has been the most divisive president of all time. He only made one democrat a member of his cabinet (unheard of in the past presidencies). The republicans haven't even allowed the dems to get bills out of commitee (unless a repub co-sponsored it) and then they sat back and criticized the dems for not having any ideas!
Pelosi has already promised that the dems won't respond in kind and will allow the repubs to get their bills heard. The bush administration's lack of bi-partisanship has been their downfall. Their inability to play fair.

Answer 5

"In a progressive usa exchange is persevering with, and the super question isn't whether you ought to face as much as exchange it extremely is inevitable, yet whether that fluctuate ought to be performed in deference to the manners, the customs, the regulations and the traditions of a people, or whether it's going to be performed in deference to precis concepts, and arbitary and generic doctrines" - Benjamin Disraeli "exchange according to theory is progression. consistent exchange with out theory turns into chaos." - Dwight Eisenhower It means that what's interior the bill violates the middle concepts of their ideals. they are no longer attempting to slap Democrats interior the face; and 3 Republican Senators voted yay. The Republicans have their very own plan. provide the appropriate time to get a bill that the two sides can agree on. yet no, Obama won't be able to try this. He has to criticize the Congress for debating (or as he known because it utilising the standard arguments and speaking factors) and rushed via giving the Senate in elementary terms 18 a million/2 hours to study the merely precise version of the bill till now they had to vote on it and set an irresponsible timetable of Congress putting the bill on his table via Monday. it is a slap interior the face if i've got ever considered it.

Answer 6

democrats will be blamed as much as republicans in a later time. i know it. then its gonna go all crazy again and this time is a bunch of democrats being in the same position. then republicans get back in power then the same **** happens. etc...

Answer 7

Why do Democrats?

Answer 8

It`s not that it`s bisexuals they don`t like