Rahmbo Pledges Bipartisan Approach

Emanuel preaching bipartisanship is like Bill Clinton preaching faithfulness in a relationship. Obama and his leftist illuminati cabinet will say one thing and do another.

obama bipartisan? Odds are better with achieving peace in the middle east.

George, please do not invite Representative Emanuel back to This Week unless he first agrees to answer your questions. I don't think he answered a single one. I was so frustrated, I couldn't even watch anymore. Please spare us an future "non-answers."

Bipartisanship has now become just another overused buzz word. Our government should be polarized and politicized by idealology at least. Many of us prefer it that way because, if you'll notice, anytime congress gets things "done" they only succeed in screwing things up.

Emanuel can pledge all the bipartisanship he wants, but you would have to be an idiot to think he actually believes it. Obama, Emanuel and the rest of the leftist cronies in his cabinet will be anything but bipartisan.

"President-elect Barack Obama comes away from Election Day with a 68% "favorable rating," the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows."

Dan, in our system of government, the losing party does not just give up their ideology and convictions and just kowtow to the victors. The Republican senators and Republican representatives still have constituents who expect them to represent their ideology. So if a bill is being considered that goes against that ideology and/or convictions, yes they will obstruct with every tool available. This is nothing new. The Democrats have used this quite effectively when they were in the minority. That is what the minority party does.

dan: 53 % IS HARDLY AN “{OVERWHELMING}” MAJORITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF AMERICANS – WHO DIDN’T VOTE FOR OBAMA, OR SOME OF THE OTHER DEMS THAT WERE ELECTED (BY A SMALL MARGIN !) ? GUESS WHAT ? THIS IS OUR COUNTRY TOO , AND WE’RE NOT GOING ANY WHERE , SO YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT YOU FANTASY OF A TOTAL DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS (No Party should have total control ; be it Rep., or Dem.) ! AND YOU BETTER BELIEVE ... WE TAX PAYERS , WHO ARE FOOTING THE BILL ON ALL THESE BAIL-OUTS AND OUTDATED ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMS -- WILL FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS AND WHAT WE BELIEVE CONGRESS SHOULD BE DOING ON OUR BEHALF ... WITH OUR TAX DOLLARS ! I VOTED FOR MCCAIN – HE DIDN’T WIN , I’VE MOVED ON. I’LL SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT ELECT OBAMA AS LONG AS HE’S WILLING TO LEAD ALL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE , NOT JUST THE DEMOCRATS.

It won't matter how much effort is made to stay center for the Obama administration; the GOP will attack them at every opportunity because that is the Republican way. Never mind that the country needs unity like never before, our friends on the other side of the aisle will embrace obstructionist tactics on productive legislation in order to keep Congress and the president from accomplishing anything remotely like actual progress.

It's almost ALWAYS been the Republican Neo-Cons that hamper progress in Congress. They use every partisan tactic in the book to stop legislative movement when the Democrats have the White House. For what ever reason they will push to build bombs and bullets to kill people but believe Health Care for millions of Americans is a waste of money. I heard a threat by the Republicans this morning on CNN about putting the breaks on Obama. Listen up, Hannity, Limbaugh and the Limbaugh Lemmings; Barack Obama was OVERWHELMINGLY ELECTED on a COMPLETE PLATFORM that promised change in our country. Changes that will bring respect from the rest of the world and envy by those that do not have our democracy. We removed as many Partisan Neo-Con Republicans as we could in 2006’ and a whole bunch more in 2008 and Americans will have NO PROBLEM smashing the rest of the Republican’s in congress in 2010 if Neo-Cons have the intention on playing partisan politics to block what American’s OVERWHELMINGLY voted for and what the Country needs!

Obama is on target. Choosing experienced people who know how to win, and who know how to avoid failure is great for us all.The amount of debries of uncertainty left by Bush adm requires quick responses to mend our economy, restore calmness to the market, failing companies, decaying infra structure, etc. Please stand with Obama.

James -

For once, we agree! Gingrich promised term limits in his "Contract with America." They were quickly forgotten. NYC voters limited the Mayor to two terms by referendum. The Mayor is now trying to overturn the referendum via the City Council. While I think he's doing a pretty good job, rules should be rules.

Once they get there, it's next to impossible to get them out.

I am like others here I think we need term limits. Whether republican or democrat having ANYONE in the same office for 20-30 years is stupid.

That amount of time does not allow for much change as times change and I think our design without term limits is to blame for some of our issues.

Most people who work for the public I think have good hearts and goodwill but over 20-30 yrs people get into routine and we need to adjust to the times.

Brooklyn Democrat, my personal opinion is that we will never really have real solutions to real problems until we get term limits for Congress. The Representatives and Senators--on both sides of the aisle--are more interested in amassing their own power and getting reelected than they are in really finding solutions. All we seem to get are bandaid solutions, keeping the problems perennially as election issues.

Morning, James -

Obama has consistently advocated merit pay for teachers and getting rid of teachers who aren't hacking it. This has hardly endeared him to teachers unions.

There's plenty of blame to go around for the dismal state of education in this country including parents, teachers, inequitable school funding, and nonsensical programs like "No Child Left Behind" which are teaching children to take tests rather than learn.

Brooklyn Democrat wrote: "The Republican Party has been relying on feral rhetoric rather than solutions for the past several years."

That is a little like the pot calling the kettle black. The Democrats have used education as an election issue in every election since at least the 1950s. Every election we hear the same rhetoric about dilapidated school buildings and failing schools. Yet the majority of the large urban school districts have Democratic mayors, Democratic controlled city councils and often Democratic controlled state legislatures. A prime example is now President-elect Obama. All the time that he was in the Illinois State Senate and on the various boards, he and his colleagues poured millions of dollars into the Illinois school systems but the Democrats still used the issue during this campaign. That's because the Democrats are really not interested in solving problems. They continually place the unions' interests above those of the students.

Pledges of bipartisanship from any politician are nothing more than window dressing for the masses.

A pledge of bipartisanship is nothing more than window dressing for the masses.

They will try the bipartisan approach until the first time it doesn't serve their own interests. Then it's back to Washington politics as usual. Happens every time.

"Obama is our first affirmative action President, (see what happens people when you let people have jobs they havent earned)he never would of won this if he wasn't half black, but now that he is almost president I'm happy and here is why?"

Jon, your blatent racism is uncalled for and that kind of biggotry is what I call un-American. Obama went to Columbia, graduated from Harvard Law School, was the head of the Harvard Law Review, and was a US senator. You don't get that far with affirmative action. If you don't agree with a president's policies that is one thing, but racism is unacceptable. Calling a person who has achieved so much though his intelligence despite, not because of, his color an affirmative action president is just ignorant. By the way, the majority of people who voted for him were white.