The Partisanship Canard

Thomas S. Harrington @ Common Dreams - This morning I tuned into the Diane Rehm Show on NPR (I know, but some bad old habits take time to break!) while doing a couple of errands in the car. The truth be told, however, I could have been accessing any of a number of outlets in our mainstream media landscape.

How do I know this?

Because Rehm’s panel of Washington insiders (James Fallows, Norman Ornstein, Gretchen Morgensen and Stuart Rothenberg) was pretty much in agreement on the fact that “excessive partisanship” was a key factor in causing the recent debt debacle.  Read more.