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Snapped Shot — From Drudge: Pelosi Claims She's 'Nonpartisan'... With the focus on the economic stimulus package shifting to the Senate, the partisan split evident with the Democrat-only passage of the bill in the House last night overshadowed a lot of the discussions on both sides of the aisle today. So much so that various leaders were practically disowning the word bipartisanship as if deadly germs were part of its etymology. When Mrs. Pelosi was asked whether the vote — 244 to 188 without a single Republican’s approval — represented a failure on her ...

Previewing the Senate Stimulus Debate: Do They Have the Votes?
TPM Election Central — As this slow news day moves on, it's a good time to prepare for the Senate stimulus debate that will begin on Monday -- it's shaping up an only slightly more genial cage match than we saw in the House. One possible X factor arising today is the sideline maneuvering of Sen. Ben "Gang of 14" Nelson. He's staying true to form by trying to build a bipartisan coalition of senators to support major changes to the House bill. Nelson is talking about increased infrastructure spending, which sounds good, but also cutting health and ...

Mike Lux: Bipartisanship and Playing Games
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — Cross-posted at OpenLeft I love Nancy Pelosi's reaction to Republican whining about her not giving them more of what they wanted: she said: I didn't come here to be partisan. I didn't come here to be bipartisan. I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest... We reached out to the Republicans all along the way. And they know it... They just didn't have the ideas that had the support of the majority of the people in the Congress. You tell them, Madam ...

Bipartisanship and Playing Games
Open Left - Front Page — Cross-posted at HuffPo I love Nancy Pelosi's reaction to Republican whining about her not giving them more of what they wanted: she said: I didn't come here to be partisan. I didn't come here to be bipartisan. I came here, as did my colleagues, to be nonpartisan, to work for the American people, to do what is in their interest... We reached out to the Republicans all along the way. And they know it... They just didn't have the ideas that had the support of the majority of the people in the Congress. You tell them, Madam Speaker! And ...