Democrats Renege on Bipartisanship

In his State of the Union Address less than three weeks ago, President Obama appealed to Republicans’ bipartisan sensibilities in effort to salvage some vestige of his ailing domestic agenda:

“What the American people hope – what they deserve – is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics,” the president said.

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Yet, just this morning the Associated Press reports:

Senate Dems ax bipartisan jobs bill

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There is, arguably, no more pressing issue facing our Nation today than our staggering unemployment rate. Yet the Democrats solution is to make matters worse by taking the jobs bill down the same failed path of partisan gridlock that they took the President’s health care plan.

The move is particularly embarrassing for the White House, since Sen. Reid’s bait and switch came only hours after the White House praised the bipartisan bill crafted by Senators Baucus and Grassley.

Apparently, the President was for the bill before he decided it was politically expedient to oppose it.