Potomac Fever: Meet the new politics, same as the old politics

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Sanjana Nafday said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; February 12, 2009 at 11:42 AM
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Sanjana Nafday said...: If I were Obama's advisor (to redress the scenario brought up in class), I would not only ask Obama to read the Jones book, but all of Congress - I would then tell them that the book is not old.

Efforts for the utopian postpartisanship Obama is calling for can only work with the support of Congress - after all the presidency is not the government. Though I believe that partisanship in government is healthy, and merely a reflection of the patchwork nature of our nation, others believe that party-line-politics is dividing the nation in a significant way. If this is so, then I say that Congress must take equal responsibility for the state of Washington politics right now and seriously reconsider the stance they take on new legislation.

After telling both Congress and the Executive branch to read the Jones book, I would tell them to adopt the values of early American politics, and discard the petty strategies for success that recent political history has unveiled (the article titles these "old politics."); February 12, 2009 at 11:46 AM