What is Bipartisanship?

David Ignatius thinks that it's got something to do with defying your party's base and breaking with special interest groups. Obama doesn't do that enough, so he's not a real uniter.

I just don't understand this perspective anymore. The fact is the base is right about a lot of things, and what the "base" wants also happens to be what the country wants. For example, getting out of Iraq- something the base has always wanted and now what pretty much what the country thinks we ought to do. Obama doesn't to break with them on this point, probably the most important question going into the election, because it's the right thing to do. Same goes for health care, largely, and probably public expenditures on all sorts of things.

This kind of stuff really irritates me and I don't know why- maybe because it's a formula for incrementalism and preserving the status quo and of course going along with the Republicans to do crazy awful stuff. People who this perspective have not adapted to the way things are today and they're responsible for a lot of the bad stuff that's happened and yet they still have an audience of millions or something of people who read their obtuse bullshit. They belong to a bygone political era and the only purpose they serve now is to remind me of the bullshit I used to believe in.