Last night I was watching an Eisenhower news conference. (Exciting, no?) Instead of just bipartisan he said bipartisan and nonpartisan. Good point. Does everything in DC have to be a tit for tat bargain. Why not begin not by negotiating but with common threads and see how far that can take the conversation before the bargaining begins. Unfortunately as it is now the ideological partisanship begins even before the discussion. Damn, I miss men like Ike and Everett Dirksen. (They were mensch of the greatest generation not the spoiled whining and self important children of today’s “me generation”.)