Easy. It's whine of someone who believes that bipartisan is "Only doing what the GOP wants."

Why would Kyl complain? Hell, if Obama said puppies and babies are cute, Kyl would complain.

Easy. It's because when he keeps reaching out his hand, the other party snarls and bites at it.

The opposition party is like a rabid dog, and it needs to be put down.

The Golden Era is a wingnut time measure which comes out to about 2 milliseconds IRL time.

He is trying to define Obama's reputation by the GOP's actions. The opinion "Obama isn't reaching out to the GOP" seems to be a statement about Obama's actions, but if you are able to set the definition of "reaching out" to "getting them to vote with you," then the GOP has a lot of control over perceptions of Obama. The more successful they are in making bipartisanship about getting votes from both parties (even if one is only 40% of each chamber), the more incentive they have to keep voting against him. As DeMint helpfully illustrated for us with his Waterloo comments, it's not about policy, it's about breaking Obama.

Coming to a book store near you:

"The Golden Days of Bipartisanship - Obama on February 8th through 10th, 2009" by Jerome R. Corsi

Steve says: " Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R) of Arizona believes President Obama isn't reaching out to Republicans as much as he used to."
I hope so.

"Partisan" is synonymous with "Republican".

Somebody call the Waaambulance, they got sand kicked in their faces! 8 years of bending over backwards by the Dems and now the Repubs don't like holding their ankles. I say a good week in the stocks outta straighten em out.

The whole Republican schtick is starting to feel like institutionalized Passive-Aggressive Behavior Syndrome, isn't it? To wit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive-aggressive

"Passive-aggressive behavior is passive, sometimes obstructionist resistance to following through with expectations in interpersonal or occupational situations. It can manifest itself as learned helplessness, procrastination, stubbornness, resentment, sullenness, or deliberate/repeated failure to accomplish requested tasks for which one is (often explicitly) responsible. It is a defense mechanism, and (more often than not) only partly conscious. For example, a worker, when asked to organize a meeting, might seemingly happily agree to do so, but will then take so long on each task in the process - offering excuses such as calls not being returned, or that the computer is too slow, or that things are not ready when the meeting is due to start - that a colleague is forced to hurriedly complete the task, lest the meeting be postponed."

Read the whole entry, it's very enlightening.

kyl's quote -- for those who paid attention the past 6 months -- reveals the nature of the spinelessness of democrats and the borderline socio-pathology of the republicans...

kyl's quote is a pathological lie...

Kyl was expecting an invitation to the White House BBQ, where Pres. Obama would personally grill him a steak and Michelle Obama would tell him how good looking he is.
Republitards.

Let's be fair- a number of Republicans did vote for SCHIP. Otherwise, I agree wholeheartedly.

If there are ANY Republicans, especially senators, who *might* vote for reform, then I suspect Pres. Obama would like to know, so he can discuss it with them.

"That's fine, it's the opposition party; it's suppose to oppose the majority's agenda."

This is a tired and wrong. It's one thing to oppose a bill. It's another thing to not do your job or rather, not do anything at all other than say "no" all the time. Your job is not to stop government. A legislator still needs to serve their constituents. If you don't agree with something, then you need to offer a rational viable alternative. Then two sides that disagree can reach a viable compromise.

What precisely is Kyl's healthcare.

Inquiring minds would like to know? So would their constitutients without healthcare.

Maybe we can't change Republican's votes, but we can sure soften them up. This lookstep 40-vote-for-a-filibuster position is weird.

It is time to start a letter to the editor campaign targeting Republican congressmen/senators for their own enjoying "socialized medicine" which they would deny to others.

Duncan, @20:55,

Kyl's healthcare insurance is, probably, the same as that of Nelson, Baucus, Lincoln, Landrieu, Lieberman etc, etc, etc. What really frosts my whiskers and boils my liver is that we have to waste money and energy on targeting "our own", not just the opposition...

Kyl's an ass#($&# . I am lucky enough to have Kyl as my Senator. Apparently many of my coresidents of this state think he's supahstah. He went to a third rate law school(back then.) He did his undergrad at a third rate school too(back then.) He's definitely jealous of Obama, MichelleO and Sotomayor and the Clintons and I am sure Al Gore. And he's the son of a former congressman so this guy has had a privileged life but couldn't even make it to an Ivy.

Benen said:"That's fine, it's the opposition party; it's suppose to oppose the majority's agenda."

If that's the way you feel, then STFU bitching about it. They are, after all, only doing what they are supposed to be doing. Right?

How about mentioning Sarah Palin or Glen Beck so you can get a few more comments Steve? That would be productive, huh?

It's fine for them to oppose, and if they want to oppose everything reflexively, they can. But they should stop acting surprised if Obama eventually quits trying to get their cooperation.

BI-PARTISANSHIP - 2004: GO F*CK YOURSELF

Warren terrah, you aren't alone--I'm stuck with that moron Kyl too. As you say, he has a third-rate intellect and a third-rate education. But in a couple of ways he's the perfect GOPer.

Kyl's a born follower. If that clown ever had even one original thought I have yet to see evidence of it. He just gets his marching orders every day from the powers that be Rush and goes forth to spout whatever happen to be the day's GOPer talking points. Makes no difference to him at all whether they make sense.

He's also never done a single thing that I can remember to represent Arizona. Like all GOPers everywhere, the only thing Kyl stands for is himself.

What ever happened to elections generating what GWB termed 'political capital'?

Elections have consequences. Moreover, health care reform will benefit all citizens - regardless of political affiliation.

"...health care reform will benefit all citizens - regardless of political affiliation."

Well, that's really the problem, Dutchman. Benefitting others isn't in the GOPer playbook. They simply don't care about you, or me, or anyone else. All they care about is themselves.