Mourdock: ‘Bipartisanship Ought To Consist Of Democrats Coming To The Republican Point Of View'

[Galraedia]

Source: ThinkProgress

Indiana State Treasurer Richard Mourdock (R) crushed Sen. Dick Lugar (R) in yesterday’s GOP Senate primary in Indiana, ending the 36-year career of one of the few Republican senators left in Washington who was interested in working with Democrats to get things done.

Tea Party-backed Mourdock is not just ideological, he is adamantly opposed to bipartisanship. In fact, he’s called for more partisanship in Washington, saying he’s more interested in destroying Democrats than solving the nation’s problems by working with them.

Appearing on MSNBC this morning with host Chuck Todd, Mourdock offered his own definition of bipartisanship:

MOURDOCK: I certainly think bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view. … If we [win the House, Senate, and White House], bipartisanship means they have to come our way, and if we’re successful in getting the numbers, we’ll work towards that.

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/05/09/480770/richard-mourdoch-hates-bipartisanship/

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The New Teabagger Dictionary -

bipartisanship: adj. When you get the other guy to do it your way through obstruction and brinksmanship.

compromise: n. Defeat by ones opponent.

[corkhead]

1. in other words "compromise is for suckers"

[cstanleytech]

16. No, "compromise is done by good leaders" but 99.9% of the republicans in office arent

good leaders is the problem.
Good at wielding and using fear and terror? Yes, but good at compromising with others? No

[fascisthunter]

2. sounds like a totalitarian to me

if he'd have is way, there would be only one political party... it is why I think politics and democracy are too good for his sort. If anything, he is the cancer that should not be tolerated.

[newspeak]

25. well, we did come to the repug point of view

for eight long fekkin damaging years. Isn't that long enough moron? Or, you just want to finish us off.

[Crow73]

3. This makes my brain hurt.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. Which is why bipartisanship sucks

We need to fight them, not compromise.

[leftyohiolib]

5. talk about thug and theyre woried about unions

this is why the gop needs to be labled a national security threat and should be done away with

[SwissTony]

6. Ray Kroc seems gentle by comparison...

Kroc defined salesmanship as “the gentle art of letting the customer have it your way." [Wiki]

[brooklynite]

7. Well, this campaign will be off to a rip-roaring start...

[Angry Dragon]

8. Another huge idiot heard from

[BanTheGOP]

9. Rethugs cannot just be voted out...

They must be destroyed, any way possible (that doesn't involve real violence). Pure and simple.

[msongs]

10. hey that view has worked in DC the past 3 years, why not espouse it in interviews? nt

[and-justice-for-all]

11. He is a total piece of shit!!

But he can be ejected much more easily than Lugar, Murdoch did the work for us.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

12. What a fool

[Marthe48]

13. How can people compromise against their own best interests?

On the other hand, we are talking about idiots...complete idiots

[Zorro]

14. Mourdock of Mordor -- the Mourons' choice

[sakabatou]

15. Paid for the United Orcs of Saurmon

[Codeine]

20. One ideology to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. nt

[Prophet 451]

17. Just verbalising what they've been doing for the last 3 years

The GOP position for the last 3 years has been to not budge one iota, force the Dems to come to their position and call the result a compromise. This dickwad is just saying what they're all thinking.

[calimary]

18. Other way around, you asshole.

YOU back down and come over to OUR way of thinking. THAT is bipartisanship that I personally can live with.

Hope you get your clock cleaned in November, you arrogant schmuck.

[lunatica]

19. He's officially an Idiocrat

He's one of the

[Evasporque]

21. My way or the highway. Asshat.....nt

[RFKHumphreyObama]

22. Please let this idiot get thrown in the dustbin of history where he belongs

come the November election

We've got enough bloviating idiots polluting the Senate without this clown joining them

[meow2u3]

23. Rethugs have been acting as if bipartisanship means Dems do as rethugs dictate

Only this heartless bastard came right out and said in plain English what prior repukes said in code. This pond scum has to be kept from ever holding elected office, no matter what.

[MrSlayer]

24. It works for them.

And it's been happening for decades. The Democratic party keeps sliding to the right to meet these assholes in the middle. So much so that we are now where they were twenty years ago and they are in loony land.

[polichick]

26. He's not alone - most Republicans feel that way...

But his statement was eye-opening for the rest of us.

[RZM]

27. If he were a Democrat he'd be quite popular here n/t