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CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - There is a lot of talk in Washington these days about the lack of bipartisanship in Congress. Not surprisingly, the very definition of bipartisanship differs depending on whether you are a Democrat or a Republican.
To democrats - who control Congress - bipartisanship means the republicans ought to go along with whatever they, as the majority party, want to do. To Republicans, bipartisanship means the Democrats ought to let them pull the strings even though they are in the minority. Politicians of both parties love to blame each other for not being bipartisan and in the process have succeeded in convincing a lot of voters that bi-partisanship is how our political system ought to work.
But the opposite is true. The founders framed a government that deliberately makes it difficult to pass a law. A bill has to be approved by both houses of Congress, then the president, and if he vetoes it, back to the Congress it goes. The system is meant to impede - not propel - the vast amount of legislative proposals which don't deserve to be approved. When Congress is gridlocked by bi-partisanship, it means our government is working the way it was meant to work.
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