Post-partisan Depression

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While I'm sure that President Obama is sincere in his desire to bring in everyone (even those people who were saying such horrible things about him scant months ago) into his big tent, it's clear that Republicans simply don't wish to be included in such amity. Viz., as far as the GOP is concerned,

the appropriate way to put together legislation is for Democrats to vote for Republican amendments. If GOP measures win, it's bipartisan. If not, it's antithetical to Obama's approach.

It's clear that the remaining Republicans will not move from this kind of recalcitrance; for Obama to appear to think otherwise is exactly the kind of thing that drives those of us on the left to distraction.

UPDATE — I knew the title of this post was too good to be original. Indeed, a little Googling finds that first Paul Krugman and then Barney Frank used the phrase last year.

UPDATE II — Apparently I'm not the only one who feels this way. Ryan Grim at HuffPost has more.